Partnership to End Homelessness - Greensboro, United States - Americorps

Description

Partnership to End Homelessness

The Partnership to End Homelessness places members at nonprofit agencies and with Greensboro's Housing and Neighborhood Development Department.

Roles focus on helping people get needed home repairs, emergency assistance, employment training, meal distribution, providing case management of disabled Veterans, and helping people to transition into permanent housing.

Every month, members perform full team Community Service projects focused on hunger or homelessness.

Every other week, members gather for team meetings, to plan their next large project, and for training to aid them with their service, their professional development, and their life after AmeriCorps.

Members focus their efforts on case management, emergency assistance, home repair and neighborhood improvement, employment training and volunteer management.

As such, members need to have excellent people skills and a caring, cheerful, can-do attitude because they are frequently meeting their clients on their very worst day.

The member's goal is to build bridges and positive relationships with their clients and the people in the neighborhoods. Further help on this page can be found by clicking here.

Member Duties :
Do intake assessments; Conduct outreach activities and events; Go door to door and assist disadvantaged individuals to secure/preserve safe, healthy, affordable housing;

Emergency Assistance:

Assess the needs of the disadvantaged client and provide assistance to meet those needs; Help client to define and work towards their goals: life, income, housing, treatment, or recovery goals; Help individuals enroll in and complete job readiness training; Increase awareness about housing repair options; Provide socialization program enhancements to residents in homeless shelters; Provide/procure groceries to the economically disadvantaged client; Serve food to the disadvantaged client; Volunteer Services Coordination - recruit, train, schedule and recognize volunteers.

Program Benefits :
Education award upon successful completion of service , Training , Living Allowance .


Terms :
Car recommended .


Service Areas :
Veterans , Homelessness , Hunger , Community and Economic Development , Community Outreach , Neighborhood Revitalization , Housing .


Skills :
None