Public Health AmeriCorps Member

Reduced Half-time - 675 Hours 

Annual Living Stipend: $7,142 

Educational stipend: $2,626.72

(Once service hours are complete)

Quarter Time - 450 Hours 

Annual Living Stipend: $4,762

Educational stipend:  $1,824.07 

(Once service hours are complete).

Summer Associate - 300 Hours

Annual Living Stipend: $3,174

Educational Stipend: $1,459.26  

(Once service hours are complete)

Concrete Safaris’ PlacemakingCorps is a grantee of Public Health AmeriCorps and receives funds from its State and National program. Individuals, ages 17+, serve for 2 - 10.5 months exploring a career in public and environmental health and placemaking, while supporting youth development and community building. Through direct service, planning, and leadership of child and youth-centered environmental health service learning projects, AmeriCorps members will gain skills and confidence to develop as leaders. Public Health AmeriCorps members will educate children and youth on environmental health, facilitating implementation of their visions for a healthy neighborhood through gardening, outdoor play, and art interventions for neighbors. Public Health AmeriCorps members will also provide much-needed, local referrals for medical and public health services. 

ROLE DESCRIPTION 1: Interested in training kids and youth in environmental health literacy and placemaking?

AmeriCorps members will conduct child- and youth-centered environmental health literacy and place-based service-learning interventions in East Harlem. As a result, young people will transform their worlds starting in their own backyards, and improve their healthy decision-making skills. AmeriCorps members serve children and youth with outdoor, experiential education to:

• Build environmental, health, and placemaking skills during school, after school, and camp within public housing based gardens and on city streets.
• Apply learned citizenship to collaborate with neighbors and policy makers to create spaces for physical activity.
• Utilize and lead events in open spaces for community building, forming new gardens, art expos, and fitness challenges that neighbors respect and utilize. Some places where activities occur may have been previously developed, and others may be expansions or new.
• Along with volunteers, support maintenance of the outdoor spaces. Members participate in public health and professional development trainings, maintain activity records, and assist with evaluations and fundraising to support programs. Members get outdoors, active, dirty, and sweaty in rain, shine, snow, wind, and other urban conditions.

ROLE DESCRIPTION 2: Interested in supporting kids and youth to become their best selves?

AmeriCorps members will deliver Participant Navigation of Services and Referrals For Medical and Public Health Services both indoors and outdoors within East Harlem. They will provide safe spaces for children, youth, and their families to express and address their medical and social needs by:

• Meeting one-on-one with child participants and their guardians, as well as youth interns and staff, to engage them in meaningful conversations about pressing challenges, to create a plan for overcoming adversity, and to refer them for medical and public-health wrap-around services that are accessible, affordable, and safe for them.
• Providing skills-based group workshops on topics in which children, youth, and families seek information, guidance, or support.
• Conducting outreach within local schools, community-based organizations, public housing developments, and businesses to increase volunteerism outdoors.
• Members participate in key public health and professional development trainings, maintaining accurate records of activities, assisting with program evaluations, and raising funds to support community-building events and activities.