Next Steps

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Next Steps

• Preparing Your Members for Life After AmeriCorps

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Agenda

• Using Next Steps
• Key Dates
• Self-Assessment
• Education Award

• Networking
• Job Search
• Continuing to Serve
• Leaving Right

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Caution!

• Next Steps is a tool, not the solution
• Keep it interactive and relevant
• Members may get overwhelmed or bored

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Identify Key Dates

• Program Managers
• Plan how you will use Next Steps
• Orientation
• Mid-Term
• End of Service

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Identify Key Dates

• Members
• Keeping them organized will reduce your stress
• School
• Taxes
• Voting

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Self-Assessment Baseline

• Determine expectations at start of the year
• Work values
• Self-management
• Interests

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Self-Assessment Comparison

• At years end
• Revisit baseline assessments
• Identify areas of change and growth

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Education Award

• Members need to know
• How to use it
• Where to get assistance
• Opportunities to augment award

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Education Award

• Maximizing the value of the AmeriCorps
  education award
• http//snipurl.com/683
• Preparing AmeriCorps members to use their
  education awards
• http//snipurl.com/EPC_451
• Transitioning from AmeriCorps to education or
  employment
• http//snipurl.com/EPC_551

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Networking

• Keep track of contacts along the way
• AmeriCorps peers
• Project sponsors
• Community collaborators
• Others met during service-learning activities

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Job Search

• Resumes
• Applications
• Interviews

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Job Search

• Community or college career centers
• Websites
• Guest speakers from local businesses
• Mock interviews as reflection activity

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Continuing to Serve

• Update Volunteer Resumes
• Revisit AmeriCorps Pledge
• Seek input from State Commissions
• Volunteer websites

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Leaving Right

• Transition stages
• Ending/loss
• Neutral/confusion
• Moving on

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Leaving Right

• Final administrative issues
• Site clearance
• Evaluations
• Ed Award interest forms
• References contact info
• Alumni info

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Additional Resources

• Resource Center
• Sitewide Search gtgt Next Steps workshop
• AmeriCorps Members Alumni
• http//www.americorps.gov
• gtgt For Individuals gtgt Alumni