Dear Colleagues,

My AmeriCorps is on schedule to launch at the end of July. Please read the important steps below and follow the instructions to help prepare you for the launch.

Online Registration

As we have mentioned in previous emails, we will be offering online webinars and tutorials to provide you the information and tools needed to understand the functions of My AmeriCorps. Online registration for the webinars is now available at the Resource Center. At this site you will find list of the webinars offered, a calendar of dates, and the link to register. Please be sure to register for the webinars specific to your program.

WBRS Transition

In preparation for the launch to My AmeriCorps, grantees need to complete all WBRS actions by July 15. A two-week gap between the end of WBRS and the launch of My AmeriCorps is necessary to ensure that the data from WBRS is properlytransferred to My AmeriCorps.

Only those forms and requests (enrollments, exits, suspensions, reinstatements, transfers, slot corrections, etc.) that have been approved in WBRS will be transferred to My AmeriCorps. If on July 16th you have tasks that were initiated but not approved in WBRS, you will have to reinitiate the requests in My AmeriCorps after the launch. Please take the time prior to July 15th to ensure that all WBRS actions have been completed and approved using normal WBRS processes and procedures.

Weexpect grantees to put a plan in place toensure compliance with 30-day requirements during the transition from WBRS to My AmeriCorps. We alsorecognize that this transition might make compliance with 30-day requirementsvery challenging for some grantees.If you are such a grantee, please be sure to explain in your next Grantee Progress Report the special circumstances that led to instances of non-compliance with the 30-day requirementsduring the WBRS to My AmeriCorps transition.

If you are currently using WBRS for member time tracking, progress reporting, and/or financial reporting, please ensure that alternative systems will be ready for use by the My AmeriCorps launch because My AmeriCorps will not support time tracking, progress reporting, and financial reporting functionality.

WBRS will be available in read-only status for a limited time after My AmeriCorps is launched.

We will provide more information in upcoming emails. In the meantime, if you have questions or feedback, please contact you Program Officer or feel free to send us feedback to myamericorpsfeedback@cns.gov.

Thank you for your continued patience throughout this process.

In Service,

Kristin McSwain

Chief of Program Operations