AmeriCorps: Next Steps - Life After AmeriCorps Workshop Materials
Note: The online tutorial for members, What's Next, provides current information and tools developed specifically to help members prepare and plan for their next steps.
The following PowerPoint slide show was presented by Resource Center staff at the California GOSERV Conference in Los Angeles, August 2004. The material is based on the publication, Next Steps: Life After AmeriCorps, written by Nedra Klee Hartzell, Ph.D., for the Corporation for National and Community Service.
- Next Steps: Preparing Your Members for Life...After AmeriCorps (PPT)
- Download Next Steps: Life After AmeriCorps
- Check out the NEW online resource What's Next. What’s Next builds upon and replaces Next Steps: Life After AmeriCorps. By enhancing and moving this content online, it can be revised and adapted to the changing environment of service and the larger community (college, job market, etc.).
Some useful articles from The Resource Connection.
- Considering Post-Service Issues During a Year of AmeriCorps Service - A calendar of activities recommended by the author of Next Steps
- Using Next Steps and Other Tools to Prepare Members for Life After AmeriCorps - Two AmeriCorps programs describe how they use Next Steps
Some effective practices about life after AmeriCorps
- Closing service and opening new doors
- Exploring life's options with informational interviews
- Finding a job after AmeriCorps service
- Transitioning from AmeriCorps to education or employment
