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PASS AmeriCorps

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What is PASS?

Partners for After School Success (PASS) members contribute to AmeriCorps national goals by Getting Things Done in Dane County, Wisconsin! PASS is a multi-site program run by the Dane County Department of Human Services in partnership with eleven host site agencies that provide youth development programming. PASS AmeriCorps members serve at host sites in predominantly low-income or resource-scarce communities with the goal of addressing the unmet educational needs of middle and high school youth through school engagement activities and tutoring; providing extended learning programs that build social-emotional learning skills and engaging youth in service to the community.

PASS host sites include schools, private agencies, neighborhood centers, and youth resource centers in Madison and surrounding communities.

The PASS Impact
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What does a PASS Member do?

PASS members spend their year of service doing these activities and more!

  • Provide school engagement activities & tutoring to middle and high school youth
  • Provide academic coaching to middle and high school youth
  • Engage youth in volunteer service using a service-learning model
  • Facilitate extended learning programs during after school hours to enhance social skills and promote school engagement
  • Support host site adult volunteer recruitment and management efforts
  • Be a mentor and serve as a positive influence in the lives of young people
  • Provide local or regional disaster relief in short-term deployments
  • Play a significant role in national service efforts to benefit the community and country
  • Have fun, learn, and grow while Getting Things Done!

PASS Benefits

There are countless benefits to a year of service—most cannot be quantified. These are just a few:

  • Staff dedicated to you and your experience
  • Knowing you changed the life of a youth
  • Over 100 hours of professional development training
  • Make lifelong friends
  • Explore career opportunities
  • Build your résumé and professional network
  • Enhance your leadership skills
  • Make a difference
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Across the nation every day...

80,000 AmeriCorps members make a powerful impact on the most critical issues facing the country serving in three Corps branches including:

  • AmeriCorps Vista whose members fight poverty;
  • AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps whose members are often the first to respond to natural disasters;
  • AmeriCorps State & National whose members serve with nonprofit and community groups. PASS is a State & National program.

Since its inception in 1994, over 1,000,000 people have served in AmeriCorps and the numbers continue to grow!

Every year, AmeriCorps members:

  • Mobilize 3 million community volunteers
  • Tutor, mentor, and provide enrichment programming for 2.5 million youth
  • Expand the capacity of over 14,000 nonprofit and community organizations

AmeriCorps invests in those who serve by creating future leaders, advancing educational opportunities through Education Awards, and building a sense of civic engagement.

Additional information on AmeriCorps is available here.

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Grant funding for Partners to After School Success is provided by Serve Wisconsin through the Corporation for National and Community Service. It is against the law for organizations that receive federal financial assistance from the Corporation for National Service to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, age, political affiliation, or religion. It is also unlawful to retaliate against any person who, or organization that, files a complaint about such discrimination.