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Americorps at Cal Poly Pomona

Often called the "domestic PeaceCorps," Americorps offers the opportunity to give back to your community. Americorps members at Cal Poly Pomona provide a diverse range of services through leadership positions in the community. JusticeCorps members serve part-time in self-help legal access centers. Americorps Promise Fellows serve full-time recruiting volunteers and creating programs for local youth such as the Homework Assistance Center.


Americorps Promise Fellows

The Center for Community Service-Learning is offering a full time leadership position to an individual committed to the academic and social development of local youth. As an AmeriCorps Promise Fellow, you will coordinate programs, recruit and provide leadership to volunteers, and organize service events. If you are interested in mobilizing Cal Poly to make a difference, contact us to join Americorps! In return for your service you will receive:

  • A monthly stipend
  • Medical benefits/child care stipend
  • An educational award of $4,725
  • Loan deferment while in service

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The Homework Assistance Center

Created through a partnership between Partners in Education, the Pomona Public Library and the Center for Community Service-Learning, The homework assistance center is a free, comfortable space where students in grades 3-6 can drop in and work on their homework independently or with the help of volunteer mentors. The center is equipped with computers, reference books and school supplies and is staffed by volunteers from Cal Poly Pomona of all majors.

The homework assistance center is opened from 4-6 pm Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays through June 19 and is located in the Children's section of the Pomona Public Library at 625 S. Garey Avenue in Pomona.

For more information or to volunteer, contact Charlene Wyatt, Americorps Promise Fellow at the Center for Community Service-Learning

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JusticeCorps members with Gray Davis at the First Annual Diversity Summit in Los Angeles

Help others help themselves find justice. Learn about the law, and life, in return.

WHAT is JusticeCorps?
Funded through an AmeriCorps grant, JusticeCorps is a collaborative project of:

  • The California Administrative Office of the Courts
  • California State University Northridge
  • The Superior Court of California
  • University of California Los Angeles
  • The County of Los Angeles
  • California State Polytechnic University Pomona
   

Students will be recruited from these local universities to provide assistance in 10 L.A. area Self-Help Legal Access Centers and with the L.A. County Department of Consumer Affairs Small Claims Advisor. Members will be asked to make a 300 hour commitment to be completed by September of 2006.

Each will be trained by experts in the field of family law and self-help law, such as Bonnie Hough, Senior Attorney at the State Court Center for Children, Courts and Families, to provide legal assistance through one-on-one direct contact with litigants, legal workshops, and computer terminals designed to assist litigants in completing forms. Students will also receive training from the Administrative Office of the Courts "Judges University," which trains new judges in preparation for their service on the bench!

JusticeCorps members will receive an educational award/stipend of $1,000 which can be used for up to 7 years.

Why JusticeCorps?
 Self-represented litigants face many obstacles, such as a lack of familiarity with legal terms and mandatory forms, and an inability to follow or fully comprehend court proceedings or orders given in court. This jeopardizes their ability to obtain guardianships, or to avoid domestic violence and elder abuse.

How Do I Sign Up?
 Applications are accepted in the spring/summer for fall participation. Applications are currently being accepted.

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Contact:
Melissa Shanks, JusticeCorps Recruitment Coordinator
Phone (909) 869-2106
Email at: fjbraun@csupomona.edu
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