Kristen Bennett

We're an organization that... is promoting a year of paid full-time service as an option for individuals. Whether you want to do it after high school, you want to do it after college, we do just want to see it become much more of the menu that is put in front of young people as they're growing up in our country and thinking about what they want to do next in life.

We're an organization that... is promoting a year of paid full-time service as an option for individuals. Whether you want to do it after high school, you want to do it after college, we do just want to see it become much more of the menu that is put in front of young people as they're growing up in our country and thinking about what they want to do next in life.

We're an organization that... is promoting a year of paid full-time service as an option for individuals. Whether you want to do it after high school, you want to do it after college, we do just want to see it become much more of the menu that is put in front of young people as they're growing up in our country and thinking about what they want to do next in life.

I think we ask a lot in the just grow up and go to college narrative for a 17 or 18 year old to make a pretty big decision. And a year of service can be an opportunity for someone to gain professional skills, mature and learn more about themselves, learn about some real issues in their communities while being paid.

I think we ask a lot in the just grow up and go to college narrative for a 17 or 18 year old to make a pretty big decision. And a year of service can be an opportunity for someone to gain professional skills, mature and learn more about themselves, learn about some real issues in their communities while being paid.

I think we ask a lot in the just grow up and go to college narrative for a 17 or 18 year old to make a pretty big decision. And a year of service can be an opportunity for someone to gain professional skills, mature and learn more about themselves, learn about some real issues in their communities while being paid.

getting health insurance, and at the end, getting an education award that will help them if they want to go on to a four-year university, a community college, a trade school, something else, but it gives them a leg up in that way.

getting health insurance, and at the end, getting an education award that will help them if they want to go on to a four-year university, a community college, a trade school, something else, but it gives them a leg up in that way.

getting health insurance, and at the end, getting an education award that will help them if they want to go on to a four-year university, a community college, a trade school, something else, but it gives them a leg up in that way.

So we're wanting to put this out there as one of the many options that we are hoping that as individuals come to the end of high school, they are given and that they can consider.

So we're wanting to put this out there as one of the many options that we are hoping that as individuals come to the end of high school, they are given and that they can consider.

So we're wanting to put this out there as one of the many options that we are hoping that as individuals come to the end of high school, they are given and that they can consider.

The majority of them are offered through AmeriCorps, which we kind of often refer to as kind of like the domestic Peace Corps. But whether you're interested in being in a school setting, like tutoring children or mentoring youth, Or if you want to be out in the wilderness helping to blaze trails and reduce wildfire challenges and brush, there's so many different ways you can do it.

The majority of them are offered through AmeriCorps, which we kind of often refer to as kind of like the domestic Peace Corps. But whether you're interested in being in a school setting, like tutoring children or mentoring youth, Or if you want to be out in the wilderness helping to blaze trails and reduce wildfire challenges and brush, there's so many different ways you can do it.

The majority of them are offered through AmeriCorps, which we kind of often refer to as kind of like the domestic Peace Corps. But whether you're interested in being in a school setting, like tutoring children or mentoring youth, Or if you want to be out in the wilderness helping to blaze trails and reduce wildfire challenges and brush, there's so many different ways you can do it.

You commit a year, you go address a need by delivering service while being trained and gaining skills and getting a living stipend along the way so that you can support yourself.

You commit a year, you go address a need by delivering service while being trained and gaining skills and getting a living stipend along the way so that you can support yourself.

You commit a year, you go address a need by delivering service while being trained and gaining skills and getting a living stipend along the way so that you can support yourself.

So usually there's the specific skills that you'll obtain that are tied to the service itself, right? So you might leave with some very hard skills, say, if you were focused on energy efficiency and part of what you learned to do was weatherize homes or install solar panels. So there's those types of opportunities. There's skills that you might learn if you want to pursue a career in education.

So usually there's the specific skills that you'll obtain that are tied to the service itself, right? So you might leave with some very hard skills, say, if you were focused on energy efficiency and part of what you learned to do was weatherize homes or install solar panels. So there's those types of opportunities. There's skills that you might learn if you want to pursue a career in education.