AmeriCorps is a federally funded network of national service programs working to strengthen communities in each state and U.S. territories. The Governor's Office of Youth, Faith and Family (GOYFF) is responsible for administering approximately $11.7 million in federal funds for AmeriCorps State and National programming each year through two separate processes. GOYFF has allocated $5.2 million in federal Formula Grant Funding awarded through a formal application process called a Request for Grant Application (RFGA) decided at the state level. Additionally, the GOYFF administers approximately $4.6 million in National Competitive Grant Funding and $1.8 million in Public Health AmeriCorps Grant Funding decided at the federal level by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
In Arizona, programs that receive AmeriCorps funding address critical community needs such as preventing opioid misuse, reducing the trauma of domestic violence, increasing access to post-secondary and vocational education opportunities, decreasing homelessness, sustaining national trails and parks, assisting seniors to stay independent, and providing mentoring to Arizona youth in the areas of literacy, continuing education, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Programs. Nearly 1,700 individuals will become AmeriCorps members in the state of Arizona this year. Members receive a small living stipend and an education award for their term of service.
At the beginning of 2022, AmeriCorps and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) partnered to establish Public Health AmeriCorps to support the recruitment, training, and development of the next generation of public health leaders to help tackle COVID-19 and respond to other pressing public health needs.
Public Health AmeriCorps has two main goals:
Help meet the public health needs of local communities by providing needed capacity and support in state and local public health settings and advancing more equitable health outcomes for communities who are currently or historically underserved.
Provide pathways to good, quality public health-related careers by providing exposure through onsite experience, training, and more, focusing on recruiting AmeriCorps members who reflect the communities in which they will serve.
If you have questions about this program or would like to be connected to subgrantees who are currently providing prevention and educational programming in your community, please email your name, contact information, location, and requested programming/training to Emily Litchfield, Director of AmeriCorps/Service and Volunteerism.
AmeriCorps Competitive & Formula Subgrantees
- American Conservation Experience
- Area Agency on Aging - Elder GAP
- Arizona Conservation Corps
- Arizona Corporation Commission
- Arizona State University - Experience Matters
- Arizona Supreme Court
- Arizona Teacher Residency
- Earn to Learn - Next Steps
- Family Scholar House
- Hushabye Nursery
- Maggie's Place
- Maricopa Superior Court
- Northern Arizona University - Arizona Ready for College & Career
- Northern Arizona University - Resilience Corps
- Pima Prevention Partnership
- Prescott College - Economic Opportunity Corps
- Prescott College - Health Corps
- Project Reset
- Teach for America
- The Be Kind People Project
- University of Arizona - Math STEMM
- University of Arizona Cooperative Extension - Wildcat Corps
- Vista College Prep
Public Health AmeriCorps
- Arizona State University - Be Sustainability via Active Garden Education (SAGE)
- Northern Arizona University - Public Health Corps
- Prescott College - Health Corps
- West Valley Health Equity