Kansas Outdoor AmeriCorps Action Team - KDWPT

AmeriCorps is dedicated to offering a diverse group of AmeriCorps members an opportunity to enhance their personal development, embrace civic values, build community leadership and create new partnerships, mobilize volunteers, promote community preparedness to natural or man-made disasters, and respond to critical environmental needs in Kansas and the Kansas State Parks system. Corps members serving in Kansas will be dedicated to the conservation, protection, education, and restoration, of our state’s natural resources. Environmental education taught in school classrooms, civic groups, state parks and disaster preparedness and response by Corps members will ensure lasting impacts in Kansas.
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• About Us
  The Kansas Outdoor AmeriCorps Action Team serves the State of Kansas by performing environmental service projects in state parks and local communities. Our program focus is in three areas; to assist emergency management agencies at disaster sites in response and restoration efforts; to restore, develop, and mitigate the loss of environmental resources within public managed lands and finally; to develop new partnerships in outdoor recreation and form outreach support groups through public presentations and education to schools, civic groups and local governments.
  
  Team members will serve on a variety of service projects related to the environment, environmental education, outdoor facility development and renovations, recruiting and organizing volunteers and assisting other agencies with emergency disaster efforts. Members can serve in three different capacities: Full-time, part-time guarter-time and minimum-time. Full-time members serve 1700 hours over 46 weeks, part-time members serve 900 hours over 44 weeks, quarter-time members serve 450 hours over 30 weeks, and minimum-time members serve 300 hours over 16 weeks. While serving members receive a bi-weekly living stipend and upon completion of their service hours, they are awarded a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award. This education award can be used for payment of qualified student loans or for paying for current education expenses at a qualified (Title IV) school.
• Our Impact
  Serving the environment and serving in times of emergency, will provide environmental sustainability and promote community safety and security.