Youth in Action AmeriCorps

Deidre Crawley
Northern Arizona University
P.O. Box 6025
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6025
928-523-2182
Deidre.crawley@nau.edu

Youth in Action AmeriCorps delivers a quality program that provides service opportunities where individuals develop valuable skills and professional experiences that directly benefit our community.

Vision:

Youth in Action AmeriCorps builds a strong community through commitment to positive and active citizenship.

History:

Youth in Action is a greater Flagstaff Community Joint Agency Youth Service Initiative designed to provide a mechanism for participating agencies and organizations to pool resources and maximize services and opportunities for youth and young adults. Youth in Action will facilitate coordinated, proactive solutions to the youth-oriented problems facing the greater Flagstaff community through better coordination of services, enhancement of current programs, and development of new programs. Youth in Action began in 1994 and is one of the longest-running and largest AmeriCorps Programs in Arizona. We are in our thirteenth year and are using the wisdom of a long-standing program to better serve our Members and the community.

Youth in Action AmeriCorps Service Sites

In 2006, Youth in Action AmeriCorps will place 65 AmeriCorps Members at 29 different service sites. Our service sites fall under three main categories: Tutoring and Mentoring, Community Improvement, and Public Safety/Environment Protection.

Tutoring & Mentoring

• America Reads
• Killip Family Literacy
• Leupp Family Literacy Program
• Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County
• Lura Kinsey Community School
• Native Americans for Community Action, Adult
• Education
• Pine Forest Charter School

Community Improvement

• American Legion
• American Red Cross
• Camp Civitan
• City of Flagstaff, Mayor's Office
• Coconino County Board of Supervisors
• Coconino County Community Services
• Flagstaff Cultural Partners
• Flagstaff YMCA
• FUSD Health Services
• Grand Canyon Youth & YVC
• Kinship Kare
• Northern Arizona Regional Gerontology Institute
• Northland Family Help Center
• Non Profit Resource Center
• Parenting Arizona

Public Safety & Environment Protection

• American Conservation Experience
• Arboretum at Flagstaff
• Colton Community Garden
• Summit Fire District
• Willow Bend Environmental Education Center