AMERICORPS GRANTEES
Big Brothers Big Sister of Northwest Wyoming
P.O. BOX 1757
604 S. 12th St
307-347-8875
Worland, WY 82401
Executive Director: Lisa Beamer
Counties: Big Horn, Hot Springs, Park, Washakie
www.bbbsnwwy.com
The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Wyoming is to create confident and caring youth by supporting mentoring relationships, enhancing school programs, and enriching our community. To help complete the mission AmeriCorps members serve as mentors in a one to one matching relationship combined with a program staff in lock step with local educators. Participating youth will receive homework help and a curriculum of educational and enrichment activities in a structured afterschool learning environment, in four counties in rural Northwest Wyoming.
Children and Nutrition Services, Inc.
800 Werner Ct. Ste. # 210
Casper, WY 82601
307-266-1236
Executive Director:Linda Crowder
Program Director:Kim Lamb (Cheyenne office)
Counties:Natrona, Laramie, and Statewide
http://childrens-nutrition.com/
Children and Nutrition Services, Inc. is a non-profit Wyoming agency organized to provide, promote and support programs and activities that improve the well-being of young children. AmeriCorps members help foster market demand for quality child care by developing and implementing a parent engagement plan. This plan increases awareness of quality issues, offers parents the information they need to become informed consumers and encourages them to let providers know they will base their child care choice on quality. CNS is also partnering with Family Journey Center and their "Little Hands at Seton House" program. AmeriCorps members offer a quality early childhood education experience to displaced young children and provide their mothers with experience in good parenting modeled by peers at Seton House working with FJC staff. AmeriCorps members also provide support (research and planning) for a similar free program that the FJC provides in downtown Casper.
Dubois Youth Activities, Inc. (Planning Grant)
P.O. Box 65
4 Absaroka Court
Dubois, WY 82513-0065
307-455-2235
Executive Director: Thomas Christian
County: Fremont
www.dyakids.com
Dubois Youth Activities, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit youth organization dedicated to providing a safe, structured and supervised environment and enrichment activities for the youth of our community. DYA, Inc. has been in operation since January of 2008 and has steadily increased the number of programs we provide and students we serve. DYA offers a variety of programs and activities for youth ages 6 to 18. Our mission is to create programs which instill values and ethics in our young people, and which will help make them better individuals, parents and citizens as adults. DYA is currently planning for a full AmeriCorps program in the 2011-2012 year.
Greater Wyoming Big Brothers Big Sisters
518 Ord
Laramie, WY 82070
307-742-2227
Executive Director: Steve Hamaker
Program Director: Cindy Stoffers
Counties: Albany, Laramie, Sheridan, Natrona, Carbon, Sublette
www.bbbs.org or www.wyobbbs.org
The Big Brothers Big Sisters mission is to help children reach their potential through one-to-one relationships with mentors that have a measurable impact on youth. The Big Brothers Big Sisters vision is successful mentoring relationships for all children who need and want them, contributing to brighter futures, better schools, and stronger communities for all. The AmeriCorps program will help attain this mission by providing outreach and support to new mentors as well as recruit mentors as
AmeriCorps members to improve the lives of youth in Wyoming.
Sheridan County YMCA
Volunteerism Impact
417 N. Jefferson
Sheridan, WY 82801
307-674-7488
Executive Director: Jay McGinnis
Program Director: T.J. Tavegie
County: Sheridan
http://www.sheridanymca.org/
The Sheridan County YMCA's mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. The AmeriCorps program will enables the YMCA and community partners to enhance and expand their volunteer and service programs. The YMCA AmeriCorps program serves as a model for volunteer recruitment, retention, and recognition; establish adult mentors for youth; engage youth in volunteer opportunities; and capture the baby boomers as volunteers. The AmeriCorps program will assist the YMCA in delivering existing programs for youth as well as the provide AmeriCorps members to Habitat for Humanity of the Eastern Big Horns and the Tongue River Valley Community Center.
Teton Science School
700 Coyote Canyon Rd.
Jackson, WY 83001
307-733-1313
Executive Director: Jack Shea
Program Director: Joe Petrick
County: Teton
www.tetonscience.org
For over forty years Teton Science Schools has been providing field based education programs to participants, of all ages, from around the world, through six program areas that focus on scientific discovery and exploration in natural settings. The demand continues to grow from teachers, parents, and students to participate in nature-based science programs. Teton Science Schools' AmeriCorps program will provide training in educational and scientific methods for educators to enter formal or non-formal educational settings with skill sets and confidence to increase scientific literacy and help kids connect to nature and science.
University of Wyoming, Center for Volunteer Service (CVS)
Connecting Campus and Community
1000 E. University Ave. Dept. 3625
Laramie, WY 82071
307-766-3117
Director: Katie Kleinhesselink
Program Director: Jenny Reese
County: Albany, Laramie, Natrona
http://www.uwyo.edu/uwvolunteers/
Promoting public and nonprofit collaborations that advance community service in Albany County, the UW center for Volunteer Service will serve as an AmeriCorps service center. AmeriCorps members will connect UW students and Albany County residents to service in the community, raise the capacity of Albany County nonprofit organizations to better recruit, manage and recognize all their volunteers, and foster a culture of service throughout the Laramie and Albany County community. This year they will hire a coordinator to expand their Campus Compact outreach and higher-education service-learning by providing minimum time members to educational institutions across Wyoming.
University of Wyoming - Wyoming Conservation Corps
1000 E. University Ave. Dept. 3355
Laramie, WY 82071
307-766-6436
Senior Project Coordinators: Benjamin Bump, Kendall Peacock, Tim Sowecke
Based in Albany County with statewide projects
http://www.uwyo.edu/enr/WCC/
The mission of the Wyoming Conservation Corps (WCC) is to connect young adults in Wyoming to hands-on natural resource and environmental management and to promote higher education through community service projects working to maintain Wyoming's wildlife habitat.
Wyoming Business Leadership Network - MentorABILITY
1200 Main Street
Evanston, WY 82930
307-783-6302
Executive Director: Roger VanLieshout
Program Director: Wanda Rogers
Counties: Uinta, Sweetwater, Sheridan, Laramie, Fremont
www.yourbln.com
The Business Leadership Network was formed to help employers improve their hiring results (and ultimately their business' success) towards people with disabilities – a readily available source of talented, motivated prospective employees. The BLN was begun as a national initiative of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities in 1994. The program hinges on a fundamental premise that success breeds success, and that when employers get together to discuss the benefits to their organizations of hiring job candidates with disabilities, other employers are inspired to do the same. Over 40 BLN's now exist throughout America. The MentorABILITY project will have AmeriCorps members (many or most with disabilities) serving in nonprofit organization in Evanston, Rock Springs, Lander, Riverton, Bridger Valley, Cheyenne, Buffalo and Sheridan.
Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence Sexual Assault (WCADVSA)
Wyoming Advocate Corps
710 Garfield St. #218
POB 236
307-755-5481
Laramie, WY 82073
Program Director: Patricia Luck
Executive Director: Jennifer Watrin
Counties: Statewide
http://www.wyomingdvsa.org/index1.htm
The AmeriCorps program, in partnership with Wyoming Coalition Against Sexual Assault member programs, is dedicated to building communities where violence against women and children is not tolerated or ignored. The WCADVSA mission is to support and enhance the work of member programs and to provide leadership on issues relating to domestic violence and sexual assault. The WCADVSA member programs will be eligible to apply as sub grantees for the fifteen members requested in this proposal, which will serve their communities and build the organizational capacity to meet local needs of education and public safety. Full time AmeriCorps members will provide service as crisis intervention advocates addressing the safety concerns of adult and child victims and as educators giving presentations to help develop a better awareness.
LEARN AND SERVE AMERICA K-12
Youth Emergency Services, Inc. (Y.E.S. House)
706 Longmont
Gillette, WY 82716
307- 686-0669
Program Director: Tatyana Walker
County: Campbell
www.youthemergencyservices.org
Y.E.S. House conducts ACE/PACE, a prevention program designed to direct at-risk youth to a healthier course in life before inappropriate behaviors become lifetime habits. Children ages 6-16 are eligible for ACE/PACE. The program is for youth and families who need extra support and guidance. In addition to study time, youth participate in recreational activities (field trips, arts and crafts) as well as service-learning community projects, and individual and group education. Education covers topics such as: self-esteem, anger management, conflict resolution, life and coping skills, etc. Parents are asked to meet with the program staff once a week to discuss program goals and the progress of their child.
Sublette County UW Extension 4-H
621 S. Pine
Pinedale, WY 82941
(307) 367-4380
Executive Director: Robin Schamber
Program Director: Jennifer Anderson
County: Sublette
http://fp1.centurytel.net/sublette/
In 4-H, you design and participate in your own projects and activities. Whether its building rockets, raising dairy cows, or writing musical plays, 4-H gives you the skills you need to succeed in life! 4-H participants will be working the community and their peers as they develop a service-learning project which includes, preparing for and building a greenhouse, learning about food preservation, growing and sharing food that the community will enjoy and buy (at the Farmer's Market), and students at school will eat. Participants will learn how to grow and market food to increase access to nutritional food.
AMERICORPS*VISTA
ServeWyoming, Inc.
229 E. 2nd St. Ste. #203
Casper, WY 82601
307- 234-3428
Executive Director: Rachel Chadderdon
Program Director: Shelly McAlpin
County: Statewide
www.servewyoming.org
VISTA members, will focus on expanding the vision of a public-private partnership to serve as a resource to our communities and to increase the number and effectiveness of volunteers in Wyoming. By supporting the development of volunteer center infrastructures in eight Wyoming Counties (Albany, Converse, Goshen, Fremont, Laramie, Natrona, Sheridan and Sublette Counties), VISTAs will recruit volunteers and develop organizational capacity for new or existing programs to meet community needs in five focus areas: Leveraging Community Resources and Assets; Strengthening Families with a special emphasis on Youth-at-Risk; Empowering Faith-Based and Grassroots Organizations; Harnessing the experience and skills of Baby Boomers and those with Disabilities; and Homeland Security: Emergency and Disaster.
Child Advocacy Services of the Big Horns
429 W Alger
Sheridan, WY, 82801
307-675-2272
Executive Director: Bobbie Walseth
County: Sheridan, Johnson
http://www.visitcasa.org/
The mission of Child Advocacy Services of the Big Horns is to work with volunteers, families and the community to advocate for and support safe, nurturing and permanent homes. The VISTA members assist in recruiting and retaining CASA volunteers and developing sustainable funding.
University of Wyoming, Center for Volunteer Service (CVS)
Connecting Campus and Community
1000 E. University Ave. Dept. 3625
Laramie, WY 82071
307-766-3117
Director: Katie Kleinhesselink
County: Albany
http://www.uwyo.edu/uwvolunteers/
Since 2003, the Center for Volunteer Service (CVS) has been honored to serve as the primary agent of community activism in the UW and Albany County communities. We provide UW students a mechanism to identify and act upon their passions and strengths and offer the venue and tools for them to reflect upon their community impact. The CVS currently is partnering with three community colleges in Wyoming through its Connecting Campus and Community (CCC) AmeriCorps program by connecting Wyoming college students with local nonprofits. VISTAs are helping local nonprofits through volunteer generation and recruitment, resource generation, partnership facilitation, and by accomplishing specific goals that would otherwise go unmet. VISTAs on each community college campus allow community colleges to participate in the CCC program and to develop new programs to connect students to civic engagement opportunities and therefore, foster partnerships with local nonprofits to build their capacities.
Washakie County Homeland Security and Emergency Management
510 South 15th Street
Worland, WY 82401
307.347.3331
Director: Kimball Croft
County: Washakie
http://www.washakiecounty.net/emerg.htm
The mission of Washakie County's Homeland Security and Emergency Management is to serve the citizens of Washakie County through effective planning, responding, recovering, and mitigating natural and man-made disasters. Our goal is to save lives and to protect property through coordination of an integrated emergency management and homeland security system with all emergency response organizations, support services and volunteers. The VISTAs will work to empower Washakie County citizens, living in the county and in the cities of Worland and Ten Sleep, to be part of the volunteer solution in their own community when a man-made or environmental incident/disaster occurs.
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