Salish Kootenai College - Pablo Montana

Americorps: Getting things done for America!

AmeriCorps is a national service organization that connects caring Americans of all ages and backgrounds with opportunities to address critical community needs. AmeriCorps members engage in service projects such as family enrichment events, after-school programs, tutoring and mentoring youth, fighting illiteracy, raising awareness for environmental or social issues, recruiting volunteers, helping communities respond to disasters, teaching computer skills, building affordable housing, improving health services, and participating in national service days and summer camps.

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Campus Corps: Meeting community need by engaging students in meaningful service

The AmeriCorps Campus Corps program at SKC is part of the Montana Campus Compact, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote volunteerism, public service and service learning on Montana’s college and university campuses. SKC is one of 11 campuses across Montana that host Campus Corps programs. Serving on the Campus Corps team at SKC enables members who are interested in community service to serve in ways that directly impact the college community and the Flathead Indian Reservation. During their term of service, members receive a stipend during their service and an education award when their service is complete.

Members and Project Sites

“The SKC Campus Corps team is one of the finest in the state…..SKC members are diligently working to address the most pressing needs of the Flathead Reservation and in turn some of the most pressing needs of our state.”
– Shannon Stober, Program Manager for the Montana Campus Corps program

The Campus Corps program at SKC has five member positions. Members are supervised by the Student Life Department. The2007-2008 members and their project sites are:
Sally Lott McLellan, Team Leader, SKC
Rebecca Longtree - Two Eagle River School
Danielle Sloan – Flathead Reservation HIV/AIDS Task Force
Shandee Gillin – SKC Youth Empowerment Project
Tracy Garcia – Boys & Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County

SKC Campus Corps 2007-2008

Left to right, standing: SKC Campus Corps members Tracy Garcia, Rebecca Longtree (and her son Gerald),
Shannon Stober, Montana Campus Compact Program Manager, Emily Clark, Montana Campus Compact Team Leader,
SKC Campus Corps members Danielle Sloan and Shandee Gillen;
seated: Sally Lott McLellan, SKC Campus Corps Team Leader, and Royelle Bundy, SKC Campus Supervisor.

Service Projects
Members are involved in monthly team projects and are expected to recruit volunteers to participate in service projects. Service projects have included:

volunteer service for the Safe Harbor annual fundraising event;
participation in a winterizing project led by Montana Conservation Corps (through CS&KT Tribal Housing);
participation in a volunteer recruitment fair at SKC staff orientation;
volunteer recruitment at Ronan High School;
coordinated and led a playground improvement project at the SKC Child Care Center for national Make a Difference Day;
volunteer service for the Warrior Society Veterans Powwow.

Future projects include:

visits to local senior citizens’ facilities;
participation in Christmas gift-gathering events for local children;
coordination of a cultural diversity fair for SKC’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. event;
outdoor cleanup projects (campus and local trails).

For more information about Campus Corps contact:
Sally Lott McLellan,
Campus Corps Team Leader
275-4745
sally_mclellan@skc.edu
or
Royelle Bundy, Campus Supervisor
275-4748
royelle_bundy@skc.edu

The SKC Farm to College Program was created in July of 2006 through the collaboration of the Salish Kootenai College Extension Office, Grow Montana, and the Montana Campus Compact AmeriCorps*VISTA program. The mission of the program is to promote awareness within the community of the health, economic, and environmental benefits of eating local food, and to build the relationships, knowledge, infrastructure and support necessary to bring local foods into the Three Wolves Cafeteria on campus.

The SKC *VISTA Farm to College Coordinator is a member of Grow Montana’s “Food Corps,” which is a network of AmeriCorps *VISTA volunteers, at The University of Montana, Missoula County Public Schools, The University of Montana Western, Montana State University, and Bozeman Public Schools, working to promote a sustainable food system in Montana accessible to all of our citizens.

For more information on the program, please contact Patrick Murphy, the Farm to College VISTA Coordinator by email at farm2college@skc.edu, or by phone at (406)-275-4941.

To Learn More, Visit: http://growmontana.ncat.org/

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