Meet the AmeriCorps Members! THE OARS ORACLE The Official OARS Newsletter. AMERICORPS OARS Volume 1, Issue 1 March 2011 What is AmeriCorps? What is OARS? 2 Just Fifteen Minutes of Your Time/ OARS Service Projects 3 Trip to the Rotunda/ Lights, Camera, AmeriCorps! 4 Great Stories of Service 5 The Importance of Goal Setting 6 Financial Sophistication Word Search 7 8 Inside this issue: Lesley Burnett (RCC) Financial Literacy, Breaking Barriers Richard Hansen (RCC) Financial Literacy, Breaking Barriers Donna Harati (PNM) GED Tutoring, Lifeskills Workshops, Family Reunification Laura Kanewske (SNMCF) Breaking Barriers, Financial Literacy, College Tutoring Guy McNeal (PNM) GED Tutoring, Financial Literacy, Lifeskills Workshops Fatou Ndao (PNM) GED Tutoring, Lifeskills Workshops Seth Pedigo (CNMCF) College Tutoring, Breaking Barriers Mark Rosebrough (ABQ) Community Service Project Coordination Andrew Valdez (CNMCF) Breaking Barriers, GED Tutoring Abby Poulos (SNMCF) Breaking Barriers, GED Tutoring
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Meet the AmeriCorps Members!
THE OARS ORACLE The Official OARS Newsletter.
A M E R I C O R P S O A R S
Volume 1, Issue 1
March 2011
What is Americorps? 2
What is AmeriCorps?
What is OARS?
2
Just Fifteen Minutes
of Your Time/ OARS
Service Projects
3
Trip to the Rotunda/
Lights, Camera,
AmeriCorps!
4
Great Stories of
Service
5
The Importance of
Goal Setting
6
Financial
Sophistication
Word Search
7
8
Inside this issue:
Lesley Burnett (RCC) Financial Literacy, Breaking
Barriers
Richard Hansen (RCC) Financial Literacy, Breaking
Barriers
Donna Harati (PNM) GED Tutoring, Lifeskills
Workshops, Family Reunification
Laura Kanewske (SNMCF) Breaking Barriers, Financial Literacy, College Tutoring
Guy McNeal (PNM) GED Tutoring, Financial
Literacy, Lifeskills Workshops
Fatou Ndao (PNM) GED Tutoring,
Lifeskills Workshops
Seth Pedigo (CNMCF)
College Tutoring, Breaking Barriers
Mark Rosebrough (ABQ) Community Service Project
Coordination
Andrew Valdez (CNMCF) Breaking Barriers, GED
Tutoring
Abby Poulos (SNMCF) Breaking Barriers,
GED Tutoring
This is a first-year grant (2010-
2011) for Opportunities with
AmeriCorps for Reentry Success
( O A R S ) f u n d e d b y t h e
Corporation for National and
Community Service (CNCS).
NMCD’s partnership with CNCS
through OARS affords us 14
full-time volunteers each grant
year dedicated to providing reentry
services through the Education
Bureau.
OARS seeks to promote public
safety by addressing recidivism
through education and reentry
related services for offenders and
ex-offenders as well as provide
opportunities for AmeriCorps
volunteers to complete meaningful
community-based service as a way
of helping their country. In its first
year, OARS has placed its
volunteers at state-run
correctional facilities
throughout New Mexico
specifically, Las Cruces,
Los Lunas, Roswell, and
S a n t a F e . O A R S
volunteers work in the
education departments of
their facilities, acting as
tutors in Adult Basic
Education and college
classrooms, offering
cognitive programming
such as Breaking Barriers,
working one-on-one with
offenders on family reunification, teaching financial literacy
workshops, and facilitating life skills workshops. At a time when state
budget cuts threaten the integrity of correctional education programs,
OARS fills the gap by providing facilities with passionate and driven
volunteers who are eager to share their knowledge and skills with an
often overlooked and underserved population.
What Is OARS? By Abby Poulos
Page 2 THE OARS ORACLE The Official OARS Newsletter.
What is AmeriCorps? By Abby Poulos
AmeriCorps is like the PeaceCorps only the volunteers in this program complete their year of service in
America instead of in overseas communities. State and National AmeriCorps programs like the
Opportunities with AmeriCorps for Reentry Success (OARS) program at NMCD are federally funded by
the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) in Washington, D.C. There are
approximately 75,000 opportunities a year to volunteer with AmeriCorps to address critical needs in our
communities. Some of these critical needs are focused in many different areas of interest—from community