General Instructions

The Mid Year Progress report is required for all AmeriCorps programs at The Corps Network.

This report covers the period October 1, 2022 - April 30, 2023. All responses should refer to activities completed during this grant period. Any references to activities completed by members enrolled in a prior year refers to members that were enrolled in a previous year, but completed activities during the year covered by the report.

Answer all questions to the best of your ability.

You may save and return to complete this form at any time.

This report is due by midnight, June 9th.

Corps/Organization Name:

Submitted By:

Email:

Program(s):

Contract ID (EAP)

Contract ID (OYSI)

PAGE 2 - DAYS OF SERVICE

Please select all of the designated Days of Service in which your AmeriCorps members participated during the current program year.

Please explain.

Please provide a description of your activities for the selected AmeriCorps Days of Service.

PAGE 3 - SLOT FULFILLMENT & MEMBER DATA

Slot Fulfillment (EAP)

Using eGrants, enter the number of slots you have filled to date for each term type.

Full-Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Three-Quarter Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Half Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Reduced Half Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Quarter Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Minimum Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Abbreviated Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

TOTAL. Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Will you fill 100% of the remaining slots by September 30, 2023?

How many slots do you anticipate will go unfilled? Enter the number for each term type.

Number of Slots:

Term Type:

Slot Fulfillment (OYSI)

Using eGrants, enter the number of slots you have filled to date for each term type.

Full-Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Three-Quarter Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Half Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Reduced Half Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Quarter Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Minimum Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Abbreviated Time Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

TOTAL. Awarded:

Filled:

Remaining:

Will you fill 100% of the remaining slots by September 30, 2023?

How many slots do you anticipate will go unfilled? Enter the number for each term type.

Number of Slots:

Term Type:

Member Database

I have updated our program's Corpsmember Data in the online database. Contact The Corps Network at chollingsworth@corpsnetwork.org if you have difficulty accessing the portal. Click here to access the online database.

Late Enrollment Report - Please print and save the .pdf of the progress report summary page in the Corpsmember Database and upload it here.

Late Exit Report - Please print and save the .pdf of the progress report summary page in the Corpsmember Database and upload it here.

PAGE 4 - PERFORMANCE MEASURES (EN1)

The performance targets listed below are from your application to participate in OYSI or EAP for the 2022-23 program year. Please review the targets and provide your assessment of your program's ability to meet the planned targets.

Responses should represent work completed during the current program year.

Key Terms

Housing Unit refers to a single-family home (including a mobile home if permanently placed), an apartment, or a room in a group home for people with disabilities.

Low-income is defined as 200% of poverty level or the updated level as found at http://www.waptac.org.

Weatherization means modifying a building to reduce energy consumption and costs and optimize energy efficiency. Whole-house weatherization includes the installation of modern energy-saving heating and cooling equipment and looks at how the house performs as a system.

Retrofit refers to an energy conservation measure applied to an existing building or the action of improving the thermal performance or maintenance of a building.

Structures are shelters, such as homeless or emergency shelters operated by a nonprofit or public organization, or government-owned buildings. Each structure would count as 1.

Improve energy efficiency refers to physical improvements to housing or building structures that improve energy-efficiency compared to standard new units built to local building code or the unit's existing energy efficiency, respectively.

EN1 - EAP

TARGET: # of housing units of low-income households and public structures weatherized or retrofitted to improve energy efficiency

TARGET: # of weatherized or retrofitted low-income households that report reduced energy consumption or energy costs

By the end of the grant year, your program:

Please describe any challenges that may prevent your program from meeting the agreed performance targets by the end of the program year. What are your plans to address these challenges?

EN1 - OYSI

TARGET: # of housing units of low-income households and public structures weatherized or retrofitted to improve energy efficiency

TARGET: # of weatherized or retrofitted low-income households that report reduced energy consumption or energy costs

By the end of the grant year, your program:

Please describe any challenges that may prevent your program from meeting the agreed performance targets by the end of the program year. What are your plans to address these challenges?

PAGE 5 - PERFORMANCE MEASURES (EN4)

The performance targets listed below are from your application to participate in OYSI or EAP for the 2022-23 program year. Please review the targets and provide your assessment of your program's ability to meet the planned targets.

Responses should represent work completed during the current program year.

Key Terms

National parks, State parks, city parks, and county parks are park/recreation areas that are designated by national, state, city, or county governments (not trails or rivers).

Other public lands are other publicly owned lands, land owned by nonprofits for public use or public good (such as land conservancies), and public easements.

Treated means that service members and/or program volunteers removed invasive species, planted native plants, built riparian buffers, cleared natural debris (such as fallen trees/limbs, hazardous fuel), and unnatural debris (disaster debris and improperly disposed waste). Treatment must go beyond basic trash removal.

EN4 - EAP

TARGET: # of acres of national parks, state parks, city parks, county parks, or other public and tribal lands treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of acres of national parks, state parks, city parks, county parks, or other public and tribal lands improved by AmeriCorps members

By the end of the grant year, your program:

Please describe any challenges that may prevent your program from meeting the agreed performance targets by the end of the program year. What are your plans to address these challenges?

EN4 - OYSI

TARGET: # of acres of national parks, state parks, city parks, county parks, or other public and tribal lands treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of acres of national parks, state parks, city parks, county parks, or other public and tribal lands improved by AmeriCorps members

By the end of the grant year, your program:

Please describe any challenges that may prevent your program from meeting the agreed performance targets by the end of the program year. What are your plans to address these challenges?

PAGE 6 - PERFORMANCE MEASURES (EN5)

The performance targets listed below are from your application to participate in OYSI or EAP for the 2022-23 program year. Please review the targets and provide your assessment of your program's ability to meet the planned targets.

Responses should represent work completed during the current program year.

Key Terms

Treated means that service members and/or program volunteers removed invasive species, planted native plants, built riparian buffers, cleared natural debris (such as fallen trees/limbs, hazardous fuel), and unnatural debris (disaster debris and improperly disposed waste). Treatment must go beyond basic trash removal.

Constructed means making new trails available by implementing safety measures, making handicapped accessible, or environmental protection measures such as boardwalks, grading, trail-blazing, converting a railroad bed to a trail, etc. that make trails newly available.

EN5 - EAP

TARGET: # of miles of trails treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of miles of trails improved by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of miles of waterways treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of miles of waterways improved by AmeriCorps members

By the end of the grant year, your program:

Please describe any challenges that may prevent your program from meeting the agreed performance targets by the end of the program year. What are your plans to address these challenges?

EN5 - OYSI

TARGET: # of miles of trails treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of miles of trails improved by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of miles of waterways treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of miles of waterways improved by AmeriCorps members

By the end of the grant year, your program:

Please describe any challenges that may prevent your program from meeting the agreed performance targets by the end of the program year. What are your plans to address these challenges?

Page 7 - PROJECT IDENTIFICATION & SELECTION

EAP

Are the service projects for your EAP program aligned with an adopted community (municipal, county, or state) environmental/community sustainability plan?

When was the plan adopted?

How does your Corps identify and select projects that meet a pressing community need?

OYSI

Are the service projects for your OYSI program aligned with an adopted community (municipal, county, or state) environmental/community sustainability plan?

When was the plan adopted?

How does your Corps identify and select projects that meet a pressing community need?

Cooperative Agreements

The Corps Network holds national agreements with the National Park Service, the US Forest Service, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Under these agreements, accredited member organizations of The Corps Network may enter into contracts or partnerships to assist our federal resource management agencies in maintaining, protecting, and improving our country’s natural and cultural resources.

Does your Corps currently participate in any of The Corps Network's cooperative agreements?

Are any of The Corps Network's AmeriCorps members serving on projects funded by these agreements?

Which AmeriCorps program?

Is your Corps interested in working with The Corps Network to identify Cooperative Agreement opportunities in your service area?

PAGE 8 - IMPACT SNAPSHOTS

IMPACT SNAPSHOTS

Stories told from the perspectives of the AmeriCorps members or stakeholders in the communities where they serve are the best ways to communicate the true impact of programs. Please share one or more impact snapshots that highlight what your members, staff, and overall program does best. These stories may be shared with the funder and/or submitted for publication.

Include the following information in each impact snapshot:

Corps Name
Project Name
Project Dates
Project Location

Best Practices for Impact Snapshots: Include a photo that captures the story or member best--even better if the AmeriCorps logo is visible in the shot! Stories should be brief, proofread, and include first-person quotations suitable for publication. Be sure to caption the photos so we know to which projects they belong.

Please upload one impact snapshot for your EAP program.

Please upload one impact snapshot for your OYSI program.

PAGE 9 - OPPORTUNITY YOUTH

OPPORTUNITY YOUTH

Key Terms

Opportunity Youth are defined as young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 who are a) economically disadvantaged, b) not enrolled in school or enrolled in an alternative school program, and c) unemployed or underemployed at the time of enrollment.

EAP

Does your EAP program actively recruit and enroll opportunity youth?

What challenges or obstacles prevent active recruitment and enrollment of opportunity youth?

OYSI

Based on your member data*, is your percentage of opportunity youth enrolled less than 60%? *See the progress report tab in the Corpsmember Database.

What support does your program need to help your Corps demonstrate improvement in recruitment and enrollment of opportunity youth in your OYSI program going forward?

PAGE 10 - WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

EAP

Does your Corps work to help your EAP members gain employment upon completion of their term of service?

Would you like assistance developing a post-program placement strategy for your EAP members?

What specific positions is your program actively training your EAP members to obtain?

Were these positions identified by conducting or using an available labor market study or analysis?

When was this study/analysis completed?

Would you like assistance identifying available jobs in your local area and their requirements?

What specific credentials will your program's EAP members obtain by the end of the program year?

Employer Partners

In this section, please describe the employer partnerships in place to provide employment to your EAP members who have exited the program. Indicate whether the partnership is formal (documented by an MOU or other agreement) or informal (based on word-of-mouth, interpersonal relationships, etc.).

Employer Partner:

Type:

OYSI

Does your Corps work to help your OYSI members gain employment upon completion of their term of service?

Would you like assistance developing a post-program placement strategy for your OYSI members?

What specific positions is your program actively training your OYSI members to obtain?

Were these positions identified by conducting or using an available labor market study or analysis?

When was this study/analysis completed?

Would you like assistance identifying available jobs in your local area and their requirements?

What specific credentials will your program's OYSI members obtain by the end of the program year?

Employer Partners

In this section, please describe the employer partnerships in place to provide employment to your OYSI members who have exited the program. Indicate whether the partnership is formal (documented by an MOU or other agreement) or informal (based on word-of-mouth, interpersonal relationships, etc.).

Employer Partner:

Type:

PAGE 11 - PARTNERING FOR OUTCOMES

PARTNERING FOR OUTCOMES

Partnerships are key to the work that Corps do to help young people across the country develop the skills necessary to enter the workforce. Whether with individuals, businesses, organizations, or institutions, these partnerships make Corps programming and offerings more robust and better suited to meet the needs of the member. Opportunity youth, in particular, can benefit from these partnerships to secure a high school diploma or GED, post-secondary education credits and degrees, industry-recognized certifications and credentials, and employment upon completion of their term of service. Corps and their partners work together to provide opportunities to help AmeriCorps members build their resilience to withstand the tremendous environmental and social pressures they may experience upon entering the workforce independently.

Core Elements of Interventions That Work

We have experienced what works and what doesn’t work for individuals like ourselves. Below we list the program elements that, combined, provide effective pathways for opportunity youth. To fulfill our priority recommendation successfully, programs need to include these elements.

All young people need the following:

- Safety in Community

- Caring Network

- Inspiration

- Learning

- Earnings

- Follow-Up Support

Programs that combine the above elements will work for the majority of young people as they are well-led, well-planned, and well-staffed. They will break the cycle of poverty, one young person at a time, profoundly benefiting society.

Source: "Recommendations to Increase Opportunity and Decrease Poverty in America", published by the National Council of Young Leaders and Opportunity Youth United. (Revised 2020)

On the next few pages, please describe the partnerships and support offered to your AmeriCorps members through these partnerships in each of the six (6) identified domains.

PAGE 12 - SAFETY IN COMMUNITY

CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS DOMAIN

Relief from the struggle for survival that comes with homelessness, hunger, violence, drugs, and alcohol, family breakup, and suicidal depression.
A safe, caring community where everyone is committed to each other's success.

Some examples of partner types that support this objective include:

Mental Health Providers
Substance Abuse Counseling
Foster Care Agencies
Human Services Agencies
Rehabilitation Centers
Elected Leaders
Civic Associations/Groups
Boys & Girls Clubs (or similar)
Teen Advisory Councils
Law Enforcement
Local Government (Civilian) Officials

Food Pantries
Families of Youth Served
Housing Agencies, Apartment Complexes, and Shelters
Safe Transportation
Negotiating Safe Passage
Mediation/Mediators
Domestic Violence Support
LGBTQ+ Youth Safety Resources

Does your Corps have partnerships in place that support this objective?

Please describe the partnerships the Corps has in place to support this objective. Up to five (5).

Partner/Description:

Resource/Service Provided for Members:

Type:

PAGE 13 - CARING NETWORK

CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS DOMAIN

Caring individual mentors who give us confidence that we have value and help us identify and achieve our goals.
A positive peer group.
People who see the good in us.

Some examples of partner types that support this objective include:

Mentors
Social Workers
Social Psychologists
Healthcare/Wellness Providers
Reentry Services/Departments
Self-Identified Champions
Corps Alumni Networks
Job Counselors

Larger Associations for Similar Agencies
Peer Mentors & Youth Leaders
Self-Care Service Providers
Vocational Rehab Centers for Differently Abled
Credible Messengers
Culturally Specific/Affinity Groups

Does your Corps have partnerships in place that support this objective?

Please describe the partnerships the Corps has in place to support this objective. Up to five (5).

Partner/Description:

Resource/Service Provided for Members:

Type:

PAGE 14 - INSPIRATION

CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS DOMAIN

Connection to various sources of faith and spirituality.
The space to redefine and believe in ourselves, to realize "this negative life is not for me," to embrace the backgrounds from which we come, to recognize our strengths, to plan for a meaningful and satisfying future.
A chance to study the history of our own people and to become aware of the strengths in our cultural history.
Opportunities to serve others, give back, to find the joy and satisfaction of making a positive difference.

Some examples of partner types that support this objective include:

Faith-Based Communities
Spiritual Practitioners
1:1 Coaching
Peer Counseling
Media
Staffing/Recruitment Agencies
Recreation Organizations & Providers
Training, Curriculum Development
Community Service Organizations

Guest Speakers
Elected Officials and Government Leadership
Youth Expression Organizations
Corpsmember Leadership or Advisory Groups
Other Area Youth Corps
Outdoor Activity Organizations for BIPOC
Physical Wellness, Arts, and Creative Programs

Does your Corps have partnerships in place that support this objective?

Please describe the partnerships the Corps has in place to support this objective. Up to five (5).

Partner/Description:

Resource/Service Provided for Members:

Type:

PAGE 15 - LEARNING

CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS DOMAIN

Access to quality education and job-skills training to become employable.
Assurance that college is within reach if we choose that path.
Opportunities to learn leadership skills and play leadership roles, realizing our larger value to society.
A chance for creativity and for recreational opportunities.
Opportunities to experience new horizons.

Some examples of partner types that support this objective include:

Employers
4-Year Colleges/Universities
ESL/ELL
Academic Counseling
Recreation and Arts
Leadership Development
Workforce Services
Vocational Training Aligned with Community Colleges
Charter Schools
Youth Transition Programs
Community Colleges
Adult Education
Literacy Coaches

Elected Officials
Study Groups
Union Training Centers
Drivers License Schools
Local Tribes
Military
State Dept of Rehabilitation
Community Elders
Mindfulness Programs/ Stress Management
Trade Schools/Programs

Does your Corps have partnerships in place that support this objective?

Please describe the partnerships the Corps has in place to support this objective. Up to five (5).

Partner/Description:

Resource/Service Provided for Members:

Type:

PAGE 16 - EARNINGS

CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS DOMAIN

Stipends, wages, or living allowances during training/or service, to enable participation for young people who must earn money.

Some examples of partner types that support this objective include:

Foundations
Major Individual Donors
Corporations
Federal, State, and Local Partners for Projects and Grants

WIOA Programs w/ Paid Internships
WIOA Programs for On-the-Job Training/Experience
Climate Corps Program (Geographic-Specific)

Does your Corps have partnerships in place that support this objective?

Please describe the partnerships the Corps has in place to support this objective. Up to five (5).

Partner/Description:

Resource/Service Provided for Members:

Type:

PAGE 17 - FOLLOW-UP SUPPORT

CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS DOMAIN

Actual placements in college, advanced training, and/or jobs, and follow-up support to overcome obstacles or setbacks.

Some examples of partner types that support this objective include:

Apprenticeship Programs
Small Business Centers
Food and Nutrition
Personal Financial Management
Housing Services
Childcare/Early Learning Centers
Resume Coaching
Transportation
Employers
Image Consultant/Styling
Existing Employment Pipelines
Credentialing Agencies

Community Colleges and 4-yr Colleges and Universities
National Clearinghouses for Data
Foundations/Funders to Support Transition Funds
Local Community Support Networks
Local Workforce Agencies
Social Workers
Treatment Centers
Down Payment/Deposit Assistance Programs
Car Sharing/Transit Network
Alumni Support Networks

Does your Corps have partnerships in place that support this objective?

Please describe the partnerships the Corps has in place to support this objective. Up to five (5).

Partner/Description:

Resource/Service Provided for Members:

Type:

REVIEW AND SUBMIT

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Once you click "Review and Submit", you will be able to review your responses before completing your submission.

Once complete, you will be redirected to the end of year report. This report is not due until October 31, 2023. Please click save and resume later at the top of that page so that you can return to that report in the future.