Become a Full Time Member

Sumbit your application at americorps.gov or Download and Save Application

You must open or save the form as a PDF before you can fill out the application. When you have completed the Application, please send it to info@americorps-stl.org. Download and send this Reference Form to 2 references. These forms must be summited by your references before your application is considered.

Education Corps – Elementary School Tutor

The AmeriCorps experience requires deep commitment and responsibility.  You are in for an exciting, rewarding adventure that will provide innumerable occasions for learning and growth, as well as memories to last a lifetime.  You will have the opportunity to serve alongside nearly 100 men and women from various geographic, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds for a common cause – to make this country a better place for all its citizens.  Our Corps Community provides teamwork, respect, and independence, creating an organizational culture that allows Members to grow personally and professionally, as individuals and as citizens.

Members serve in 6 elementary schools providing intensive one-on-one tutoring and mentoring, with a particular emphasis on literacy and language arts. During extended day programming, Members provide a safe and engaging place for children, assisting students with homework completion, providing additional academic enrichment opportunities, and designing structured recreation for students. In one of our nation’s struggling school districts, AmeriCorps St. Louis Members are making tangible differences in the lives of children who might otherwise fall through the cracks. We have a strong Member development component. In addition to regular program-sponsored gatherings, Members are offered other evening and weekend service opportunities that develop leadership and project planning skills.

Our Members are placed in schools in October, and receive extensive training in the 4 weeks prior to placement. Members continue to attend training days twice per month throughout their service, which extends until the end of July, when summer school ends. Each AmeriCorps St. Louis tutor is trained in methods of literacy tutoring; strategies to increase personal responsibility and citizenship among students; serving in a diverse, urban school environment; and honing their own leadership skills.

Members serve full-time at their school site in teams of 5-6 Members, with an AmeriCorps Team Leader at each site. Members tutor the same 5-10 students continually throughout the year, assist in the classroom, plan tutoring lessons and all school events, and facilitate after-school activities.

Emergency Response Team

Spend a year assisting disaster-affected communities, fighting wildfires, and conserving natural resources with a team of 30 other young adults. In our country, the frequency of natural disasters has doubled in the last decade, and the threat of man-made disasters has increased; yet, most citizens are still unprepared when disaster strikes. The AmeriCorps St. Louis Emergency Response Team (ERT) is making real advances in both disaster preparedness and response. The ERT is a multi-functional rapid deployment group that has been called out nationally to floods, NASA search and recovery, ice storms, terrorist attacks, tornadoes, wildfires, and hurricanes. When not involved in disaster response or preparedness activities, the ERT assists the Missouri Departments of Conservation and Natural Resources, the U.S. Forest Service, and National Park Service with trail maintenance, habitat restoration, and other natural resource projects.

Members of the Emergency Response Team must be in good physical condition and have the ability to function as supportive and dependable teammates, even in times of extreme stress and adversity. A love for the outdoors is a must as ERT Members spend most of their service out of town, living in community and often sleeping in rustic conditions. On any given day, an AmeriCorps St. Louis Emergency Response Team Member could:

• Provide immediate and long-term relief in areas affected by natural disasters
• Restore Missouri forests and rivers
• Train students in disaster preparedness
• Participate as an emergency responder to forest fires in Missouri or in Western States
• Use GPS mapping equipment to create guides to Missouri trails

All ERT Corps Members will receive an intensive orientation including: physical conditioning, team building and leadership skills, introduction to disaster services, operations in hazardous environments, dealing with people in crisis, risk management approaches, Incident Command System, emergency communications, and basic emergency medical care.