What is Sycamore Service Corps?
Sycamore Service Corps is a local program of AmeriCorps – the nation’s domestic service corps program sponsored by the Center for Public Service and Community Engagement at Indiana State University. Sycamore Service Corps members provide service to local non-profit organizations in Vigo, Clay, Parke, Sullivan, and Vermillion counties.
What do Sycamore Service Corps members do?
Members work on community needs in education, public safety, human services, and the environment. The Sycamore Service Corps is an inter-generational corps of volunteers that include local residents and students from the area’s higher education institutions. Volunteers are placed in human service agencies within a five county area of West Central Indiana. Members provide service in the priority areas of family self-sufficiency and stability, poverty, economic development, public safety and education. For example, members might:
- Provide ESL tutoring
- Teach CPR and Disaster Education workshops
- Assist families in locating parenting and child care resources
- Direct a Teen Court program
- Lead youth programs and activities
- Teach adults basic life skills
- Help unemployed or underemployed adults with job skills
- Provide music, art, exercise, or pet therapy service to individuals or groups
- Serve as an organic garden assistant
Indiana State University
Phone (812) 237-7900
Center for Community Engagement
Tirey Hall 136C
http://www.indstate.edu/americorps/ssc.htm
Terre Haute, IN 47809
Program Director: Stephanee Squires stephanee.squires@indstate.edu
Member Locations: Terre Haute Area: Vigo, Clay, Parke, Vermillion, and Sullivan Counties
Member Positions: Reduced Half Time, Quarter Time, Minimum Time
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