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Launching Your VISTA Service

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Launching Your VISTA Service

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Kayleigh Remavich

AmeriCorps VISTA Member Support Specialist

VISTA Alum ’16-’17

Ericc Powell

AmeriCorps VISTA Training CoordinatorVISTA Alum ’06-’07

VISTA Leader Alum ‘08-’09

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In this webinar, we will:

• Describe VISTA’s mission and the program

• Review a few VISTA’s recent accomplishments

• Identify support persons and resources

• Highlight action items needing your attention

• Administer the Oath of Service

Session Objectives

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Passcode: 7873382Welcome to VISTA!

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“…you will be opening up new vistas of hope for the poor…”

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A family of national service programs

AmeriCorps VISTA & CNCS

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Passcode: 7873382VISTA’s Mission

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Strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty through the mobilization of volunteers and resources

VISTA’s Mission

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Strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty through the mobilization of volunteers and resources

VISTA’s Mission

Key principles:

• Ending poverty

• Empowering communities

• Creating sustainable solutions

• Building capacity

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Strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty through the mobilization of volunteers and resources

VISTA’s Mission

Key principles:

• Ending poverty

• Empowering communities

• Creating sustainable solutions

• Building capacity

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Passcode: 7873382Capacity Building vs. Direct Service

Capacity Building

Efforts that help an organization’s ability to:

• Increase reach

• Improve efficiency

• Scale up

• Be more effective

Direct Service

Efforts that serve individuals in need, but do not address the development of systems or organizations. Includes:

• Tutoring

• Manual labor

• Foodbank service

• Counseling

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Capacity Building Direct Service

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Capacity Building Direct Service

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Recruiting volunteers to build houses

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Capacity Building Direct Service

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Recruiting volunteers to build houses

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Capacity Building Direct Service

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Delivering “meals on wheels”

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Capacity Building Direct Service

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Delivering “meals on wheels”

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Capacity Building Direct Service

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Teaching a financial literacy course

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Capacity Building Direct Service

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Teaching a financial literacy course

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Capacity Building Direct Service

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Organizing a fundraiser

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Capacity Building Direct Service

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Organizing a fundraiser

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Capacity Building Direct Service

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Setting up partnerships in the community

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Capacity Building Direct Service

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Setting up partnerships in the community

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A Legacy of Expanding Economic Opportunity

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Which of the key principle(s)

resonates with you? Why?

Key Principles:

• Ending poverty

• Empowering communities

• Building capacity

• Creating sustainable solutions

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Each VAD includes:

• Project Goal

• Objectives

• Member Activities

VISTA Assignment Description

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Each VAD includes:

• Project Goal

• Objectives

• Member Activities

VISTA Assignment Description

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Each VAD includes:

• Project Goal

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• Member Activities

VISTA Assignment Description

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Each VAD includes:

• Project Goal

• Objectives

• Member Activities

VISTA Assignment Description

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According to your VAD,

what will you be doing

as a VISTA member?

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SO WHAT?

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If you succeed in your

service, what will happen

in your community?

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Passcode: 7873382VISTAs Get Things Done!

800,000Community volunteers

mobilized

3 millionDisadvantaged youth

served

140,000Veterans and military

families served

4,500+Sites across the

country

$206 millionCash and in-kind

resources

8,500VISTA members

served

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vistacampus.gov

Online Support

my.americorps.gov

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• Working with Volunteers

• Fundraising

• Communication & Marketing

• VISTA Program Area Resources

• Other

• Poverty in America

• Workplace & Service Site

• Building Partnerships

• Community Development

• Project Management

VISTA Campus

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• VISTACampus.gov

• Learning Opportunities for Service

and Beyond

• Webinars on

• Life as a VISTA

• The Work

• Events Calendar

Webinars for VISTAs

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Passcode: 7873382Action Items - Benefits

• Direct Deposit info in

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• End of Service Benefit

• Healthcare Benefit

• americorpsvista.imglobal.com

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1. Review the Benefits page

• Living allowance ~ Healthcare ~ Loan forbearance ~ End-of-service benefit (Ed award or cash stipend) ~ Childcare ~ Online courses for credit ~ etc.

2. Read the VISTA Member Handbook

3. Contact the VMSU via the National Service Hotline

• 800-942-2677

• questions.nationalservice.gov

VISTA Benefits Questions?

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• Complete any missing

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• Set up a meeting with your

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• Get fingerprinted (ASAP)

• Submit criminal history

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Action Items - Entry

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• Checks are conducted to protect the community members

• Criminal History Questionnaire: If you failed to disclose any conviction, send it in as instructed.

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• Receive fingerprint cards from your

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• Your responsibility

• $25 fingerprinting subsidy

• Get fingerprinted ASAP

• Submission Deadline:

• Thursday, October 4th

Fingerprinting

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Supervisor &

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VISTA Member Support Unit

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my.americorps.gov

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• Add the VISTA logo to your business cards and signature

• Decorate your space with VISTA gear

• Share your VISTA photos and stories on social media

• Get in touch with local alumni

• Order your VISTA gear once you receive ordering instructions

Show Your VISTA Pride

Oath of Service

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Jordan Brewster

Keystone Foodbank

Oath of Service

Sunnydale, CA

09/04/2018

Kayleigh Remavich

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I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the

Constitution of the United States against all enemies,

foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and

allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely,

without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;

and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of

the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

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Oath of Service

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1. Duty date is today’s date

2. Enter Kayleigh Remavich as the CNCS Official

3. You (VISTA) sign by “AmeriCorps VISTA Member Signature”

4. Have supervisor or other witness sign “witness” section

5. Email the Oath to VMSU@cns.gov – by the end of the day

• Subject line: OATH - Your Name – 09/04/2018

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“On your idealism and

on your success rests

much of our hope for the

final elimination of poverty

in our American life.”- Lyndon Johnson, December 12, 1964

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Thank you for your service