NH AmeriCorps Programs

• City Year New Hampshire AmeriCorps
• AmeriCorps Victim Assistance Program
• PlusTime NH AmeriCorps
• NH Parks AmeriCorps 

2008-2009 AmeriCorps Programs in NH

City Year NH AmeriCorps
Areas Served- Seacoast, Manchester, Nashua

Contact Information:
Ted Wing, Recruitment Department
City Year NH 
200 Domain Drive
Stratham, NH 03885
Phone: 603-773-1618
Fax: 603-773-1649
Email: twing@cityyear.org
Website: www.cityear.org/newhampshire

City Year NH seeks to prevent risky behaviors through mentoring, tutoring and running out of school time programs for children before they reach9^th grade. CYNH also systematically involves children in afterschool programs that incorporate community service and service-learning projects. Combined with targeted tutoring and whole class support, CYNH's program design allows members to form relationships as positive, peer age role models with middle school youth while leading them in education activities that enhance their academic development, interest in their community, and ability to make smart, informed and healthy choices about their future.

AmeriCorps Victim Assistance Program (AVAP)
Area Served- Statewide

Contact Information: 
Meg Dugan, Director 
AmeriCorps Victim Assistance Program
PO Box 4156
Concord, NH 03302-4156
Phone: 603-224-6466
Fax: 603-224-4666
Email: meg@avap1.org
Website: www.avap1.org

The mission of the AmeriCorps Victim Assistance Program (AVAP) is to expand the network of victim services throughout New Hampshire to more effectively meet the needs of victims of domestic and sexual violence. Members of the AmeriCorps Victim Assistance Program are placed throughout New Hampshire at crisis centers, police departments, prosecutor offices, New Hampshire Department of Corrections, and on college and university campuses to offer support and information to victims of domestic and sexual violence.

PlusTime NH AmeriCorps
Area Served- Statewide

Contact Information: 
Joe Drake, Program Support Services 
PlusTime NH
160 Dover Road, Suite 1
Chichester, NH 03258
Phone: 603-798-5850
Fax: 603-798-5861
Email: jdrake@plustime.org
Website: www.plustime.org

This program is designed to address the need for additional afterschool opportunities for NH youth, and also to meet the critical need for better quality opportunities for youth in the afterschool time. Data from Kid's Count 2001 suggests that youth growing up in poverty are more likely to experience substance abuse, early parenting and court involvement than their more economically advantaged counterparts. Members will implement programming to counter these trends through the promotion of youth developmental assets, as identified by the Search Institute (2000). Examples of these assets include engaging youth in daily homework activities, helping youth develop skills to resist negative peer pressure, and helping youth develop a positive view of their personal future.

New Hampshire Parks AmeriCorps
Area Served - NH State Parks and surrounding communities

Contact Information: 
Tim Albers, Director
SCA NH Parks AmeriCorps
159 Bear Brook Road
Suncook, NH 03275
Phone: 603-485-2191
Email: talbers@thesca.org

This is a residential program housed at Bear Brook State Park in Suncook NH, which was also the site of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930’s. The NH Parks AmeriCorps program is dedicated to rehabilitation of New Hampshire’s State Parks as well as conducting environmental activities with Manchester area youth.