Shayla Thiel Stern, Author at ServeMinnesota

From High School to AmeriCorps: A Recent Grad’s Decision to Join Reading Corps

Yailyn nows attends college and services full-time as a tutor in Reading Corps.

Telia’s AmeriCorps service helped her figure out that she liked to coach high school and college students.

“I thought hey, now is the time to really give back to my community and help kids who struggled with math and science, too.”

Members are provided with a tuition award after they finish one term of service. Here’s how much and they can use it.

Mahamed’s AmeriCorps service in the St. Paul Police Department is launching his career are as a police office and helping his community.

“I tell them, ‘You’re going to go places where your family and our ancestors have never been and do things they’ve never done.’”

Serving as an AmeriCorps member in the Total Learning Classroom program, Kendra is helping her community and herself.

Sarah Paulus was able to combine her skills in research and data analysis with her wish to serve as an advocate in AmeriCorps.

The Total Learning Classroom (TLC) program aims to overcome Minnesota’s widening achievement gap.

“You can work at a pace that’s right for the kids, and you can see the kids’ growth over time. That has been rewarding.”