Strive Together VISTA

All United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley (UWGLV) AmeriCorps VISTA assignments will expand capacity towards population level goals across the region. UWGLV strives to create population level change in the areas of education, healthy aging, and community stability to ensure individuals who experience crises have the supports they need to rebound. The UWGLV VISTA project focuses on strengthening the networks of providers that deliver services to address concerns and through working with UWGLV staff they support the efforts across all four-issue areas. VISTAs address issues at the programmatic and systemic levels seeking to identify and deal with the root causes by utilizing the collective impact framework.

Benefits
Living Allowance
Education Award
Healthiest You Telehealth
Student loan forgiveness program
Non-Compete Eligibility for Government Jobs

Responsibilities
The Strive Together Allentown AmeriCorps VISTA will support Lehigh Valley s readiness to engage in a Strive Together Partnership by researching available resources, analyzing local systems and policies, and exploring alignment with early childhood education collaboratives. The VISTA will review Strive Together support resources and develop an engagement plan to help UWGLV Impact team members build targeted skills, create a policy landscape matrix aligning Strive Together Theory of Action metrics with relevant local and state elected officials, school boards, and policies, and work with the Vice President of Impact and Innovation to identify low-lift, high-impact opportunities to connect existing early childhood education collaborative efforts to a future Strive Together Partnership.

Requirements
Willing to serve full time for a modest living allowance of $24,962 annually and education award.
At least 18 years old
Have a HS diploma or G.E.D.
Able to report in person for work in Lehigh, Northampton or Carbon counties.
Able to secure clearances to work with vulnerable populations (Act 153).

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