AmeriCorps: A Facilitator's Guide for By the People
This Guide includes ten training sessions based on the real activities of AmeriCorps members during their service. During these sessions, AmeriCorps members will receive an introduction to ideas and skills which they will first practice in class and then bring to their current assignments. The materials should come alive in follow-up sessions when the members report their insights and give examples of how they applied the new ideas and skills in the field.
The purposes of these sessions are to:
- Help AmeriCorps members better understand the full meaning of citizenship, including life-long involvement in community service.
- Give AmeriCorps members information about civic skills and practice using these skills to enhance their current and future work in civic activities.
- Build within AmeriCorps members a framework and motivation for life-long community service through:
- Volunteerism as an enriching, part-time addition to one's life, and/or
- Pursuing a full-time career in professional community service, including teaching, human services, public or government service.
The guide is available in sections or as one large document. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software to view and print these documents.
Download A Facilitator's Guide for By the People in its entirety:
In sections
- Table of Contents and Introduction (PDF)
- Session 1: Citizenship and You (PDF)
- Session 2: We Ask, We Listen, We Learn (PDF)
- Session 3: You and Community—There's History (PDF)
- Session 4: Valuing Differences (PDF)
- Session5: Service As a Profession: Is It for You? (PDF)
- Session 6: Analyzing Problems, Planning Solutions (PDF)
- Session7: Managing Conflict (PDF)
- Session 8: Development: Empowering People and Communities (PDF)
- Session 9: Reflection and Evaluation (PDF)
- Session 10: Creating Your Citizenship Action Plan (PDF)
- Training Tips and Bibliography (PDF)
