Overview
Project Unite is dedicated to supporting students who enter kindergarten unprepared, progress to the next grade level without readiness, live in poverty, or encounter additional challenges like food insecurity. Wraparound support is essential to helping these children overcome their challenges and barriers to success. The Wraparound Support Program facilitates collaboration between students, schools, families, and community partners, focusing on enhancing students' socioemotional well‑being and ensuring a smoother transition to post‑secondary life. By providing holistic, multi‑faceted support, the program helps empower students to thrive both academically and personally.
Member Duties
- Find ways to increase students’ educational success in Columbia County schools, Richmond County schools, and local non‑profit agencies.
- Collect data from students and parents/guardians to determine barriers to academic, social, and emotional well‑being and success.
- Assess student needs through interviews, surveys, and data to identify additional community resources, set up processes for identifying academically and behaviorally at‑risk students, and align services to student needs.
- Develop programs and initiatives to meet the needs of students by reaching out to community organizations to provide needed programs or create them from the ground up and finding funding to support those new programs and initiatives for sustainability.
- Set up procedures for students to receive food, clothing, and other supplies as needed.
- Collaborate with the district homeless liaison for families experiencing homelessness.
Program Benefits
- Childcare assistance if eligible
- Training
- Living Allowance
- Relocation Allowance
- Choice of Education Award or End‑of‑Service Stipend
- Health Coverage*
*For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorps.gov/members-volunteers/vista/benefits.
Terms
- Permits working at another job during off hours
- Car recommended
- Permits attendance at school during off hours
Service Areas
- Community Outreach
- Homelessness
- Education
- Children/Youth
Skills
- Education
- Fund raising/Grant Writing
- General Skills
- Team Work
- Computers/Technology
Program Information
- Program Type: AmeriCorps VISTA
- Program: Wrap Around Service Facilitator‑UWCSRA
- Program Start/End Date: 12/05/2025 – 01/12/2027
- Work Schedule: Full Time
- Education Level: Some college
- Age Requirement: Minimum 18, Maximum None
- Program Locations: GEORGIA
- Languages: English
- Accepting Applications: From 12/05/2025 To 01/12/2027
Contact
Cheryl Odom
1765 BROAD ST
AUGUSTA GA 30904
706‑724‑5544
codom@uwcsra.org
https://uwcsra.org