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You will need an Well begin soon. While youre Oath of Service form for this waiting, please share your answer webinar. Download and print the in the chat panel on the right: form from the Handouts panel, Why did you join VISTA? but

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Launching Your VISTA Service

Audio by phone: 866-609-4997

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Launching Your VISTA Service

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Today’s Speakers

Chris Hawkes

AmeriCorps VISTA Training Specialist

Andy King

AmeriCorps VISTA Training Specialist

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Where Are You Serving?

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Where Are You Serving?

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In this webinar, we will:

  • Describe VISTA’s mission and the program
  • Review a few of VISTA’s recent accomplishments
  • Identify support persons and resources
  • Highlight action items needing your attention
  • Administer the Oath of Service

Session Objectives

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Welcome to VISTA!

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Volunteers in Service to America

“…you will be

  • pening up new

vistas of hope for the poor…”

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AmeriCorps VISTA & CNCS

A family of national service programs

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VISTA’s Mission

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Strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty through the mobilization of volunteers and resources

VISTA’s Mission

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VISTA’s Mission

Strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty through the mobilization of volunteers and resources

Key principles:

  • Ending poverty
  • Empowering communities
  • Creating sustainable solutions
  • Building capacity
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VISTA’s Mission

Strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty through the mobilization of volunteers and resources

Key principles:

  • Ending poverty
  • Empowering communities
  • Creating sustainable solutions
  • Building capacity

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service Capacity Building

Efforts that help an organization’s ability to:

  • Increase reach
  • Improve efficiency
  • Scale up
  • Be more effective

Direct Service

Efforts that serve individuals in need, but do not address the development of systems or

  • rganizations. Includes:
  • Tutoring
  • Manual labor
  • Foodbank service
  • Counseling

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service Capacity Building Direct Service

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service Capacity Building Direct Service

Recruiting volunteers to build houses

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service

Recruiting volunteers to build houses

Capacity Building Direct Service

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service

Delivering “meals on wheels”

Capacity Building Direct Service

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service

Delivering “meals on wheels”

Capacity Building Direct Service

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service

Teaching a financial literacy course

Capacity Building Direct Service

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service

Teaching a financial literacy course

Capacity Building Direct Service

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service

Organizing a fundraiser

Capacity Building Direct Service

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service

Organizing a fundraiser

Capacity Building Direct Service

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service

Setting up partnerships in the community

Capacity Building Direct Service

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Capacity Building vs. Direct Service

Setting up partnerships in the community

Capacity Building Direct Service

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VISTA’s Legacy

Expanding Economic Opportunity

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VISTA Principles

Key Principles:

  • Ending poverty
  • Empowering communities
  • Building capacity
  • Creating sustainable solutions
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Chat Question

Key Principles:

  • Ending poverty
  • Empowering communities
  • Building capacity
  • Creating sustainable solutions

Which of the key principles resonates with you? Why?

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Each VAD includes:

  • Project Goal
  • Objectives
  • Member Activities

VISTA Assignment Description

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Each VAD includes:

  • Project Goal
  • Objectives
  • Member Activities

VISTA Assignment Description

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VISTA Assignment Description

Each VAD includes:

  • Project Goal
  • Objectives
  • Member Activities

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VISTA Assignment Description

Each VAD includes:

  • Project Goal
  • Objectives
  • Member Activities

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VAD Worksheet

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Chat Question

Based on your VAD, what will you be doing as a VISTA member?

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SO WHAT?

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Chat Question

If you succeed in your service, what will happen in your community?

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VISTAs Get Things Done!

$206 million

Cash and in-kind resources

800,000

Community volunteers mobilized

3 million

Disadvantaged youth served

140,000

Veterans and military families served

8,500

VISTA members served

4,500+

Sites across the country

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Quick Review

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Rights & Responsibilities

Red flags:

  • Discrimination
  • Harassment

CNCS Equal Opportunity Program (EOP) Phone: 202-606-7503 Email: eo@cns.gov

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Rights & Responsibilities

Red flags:

  • Replacing staff or serving as

administrative assistant

  • Assignments unrelated to

the VAD

  • Direct service

CNCS Office of Inspector General Phone: 800-452-8210 Email: hotline@cncsoig.gov Website: www.cncsoig.gov

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Fingerprinting

  • Receive fingerprint cards from your

supervisor today

  • Your responsibility
  • $25 fingerprinting subsidy
  • Get fingerprinted ASAP
  • Submission Deadline:
  • Wednesday, April 17th

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VISTAs and Criminal History

  • Criminal History Questionnaire:

If you failed to disclose any conviction, send it in as instructed.

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Show Your VISTA Pride

  • Add the VISTA logo to your business

cards and email signature

  • Decorate your space with VISTA gear
  • Share your VISTA photos and stories
  • n social media
  • Order your VISTA gear once you

receive ordering instructions

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Where to Get Support

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What’s Ahead

Early-Service Coursework

  • Make the Most of Your OSOT
  • The Minute Intro
  • Learn About Theory of Change
  • How Poverty is Measured in the U.S.
  • VAD Worksheet
  • Creating a Community Profile
  • 13 Lessons About Poverty
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What’s Ahead You Can’t Spell VISTA without…

I S T

In-Service Training (IST)

  • Geographically-based invitations
  • Designed for first 2-5 months of VISTA

service

  • Core Modules:
  • Capacity Building
  • Navigating the Member-Supervisor

Relationship

  • Empowering the Community
  • Using Storytelling in Marketing & Outreach

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Action Items - Benefits

  • Is your Direct Deposit info

correct?

  • Did you select the right End-of-

Service Benefit?

  • Enroll in a Healthcare Benefit
  • enrollment instructions by email

from IMG in ~10 days

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Action Items - Entry

  • Set up a recurring meeting with

your supervisor

  • Complete the Early-Service

Coursework

  • Get fingerprinted
  • Order your VISTA gear
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Oath of Service

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Oath of Service

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<<your full name>> <<the organization where you serve>>

Oath of Service

<<city, state where you serve>> 03/18/2019

Chris Hawkes

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Oath of Service

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

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Oath of Service

Your Signature 03 18 2019 Witness Signature 03 18 2019

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Oath of Service

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Oath of Service

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Oath of Service Email Subject line: OATH – Your Name – 03/18/2019

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  • 1. First day of service is today
  • 2. Enter Chris Hawkes as the CNCS Official
  • 3. You (VISTA) sign by “AmeriCorps VISTA Member Signature”
  • 4. Have supervisor or other witness sign “Witness” section
  • 5. Email the Oath to vmsu@cns.gov – by the end of the day
  • Subject line: OATH - Your Name – 03/18/2019

Remember - Oath of Service

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Closing

“On your idealism and

  • n your success rests

much of our hope for the final elimination of poverty in our American life.”

  • Lyndon Johnson, December 12, 1964
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Thank you for your service!