Living Stipend: $600/week ( ~ $15/hr)
Housing: Housing provided on-site*
AmeriCorps Service Term Length: 25 weeks, full-time
Number of Positions: 1
Start Date: 11/11/2024
Application Deadline: 10/15/2024
Reports to: Visitor Services Ambassador at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
YES (Youth Empowerment Stewards) Program:
Are you passionate about disability rights and accessibility in National Parks and public lands? Do you identify as having a disability yourself?Work with us and help increase access to the outdoors for everyone. Our health, our planet, and our collective future rely on diversity – in thought, ability, experience, and ideas.That’s why we need YOU.Become a Youth Empowerment Steward (YES) member and help make the outdoors more accessible for all!
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Education and Interpretation AmeriCorps Service Member:
Stewards Individual Placements, a program of Conservation Legacy, provides individuals with AmeriCorps service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources.YES members focus on barriers to entry for individuals with disabilities in the outdoor work and recreation spaces.Stewards, in partnership with Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, are seeking a YES member who will play a critical role in helping Abraham Lincoln Birthplace better serve our local communities by improving accessibility for patrons and staff.
The YES member will join the park’s interpretation team in creating a memorable experience at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace. The YES member will learn about interpretation and practice interpretive skills, provide public programing, make recommendations to the park on how to improve park accessibility for public programing, and develop in-house training for Abraham Lincoln Birthplace staff about accessibility in public programing at this national park.
Duties Include:
·Make recommendations to the park on how to improve accessibility
·Assist in implementing needed accessibility improvements
·Provide public programming and guided talks
·Develop training for park staff about accessible public programming
Benefits:
·Trainings on interpretation, NPS accessibility standards, and presentations will be provided
·Professional Development Opportunities
·Eligible for AmeriCorps Education Award upon completion
·Dedicated staff to ensure reasonable accommodations requests are met
·Membership opportunities and dedicated cohort/affinity meeting spaces
·Opportunity to make a big impact!
·Housing provided at site*/Housing Assistance**
*The park housing was constructed in the late 1950s and are Ranch-style homes. Everything is on one floor and there is no basement. There are a few concrete steps that one would have to use to enter the home. Each house (there are 2) has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Each resident gets their own personal bedroom with locking door but in some cases would have to share the 2 bathrooms in the event we have 3 residents. Each bathroom has the stereotypical shower/tub combination that one would have to "step" into to be able to access the tub and/or shower. There are shared spaces in the living room, kitchen and dinning room. Each house has its own washer and dryer so each resident can do their own laundry while living at the house.
**If this housing is not accessible for you then please let us know and we can provide an additional $100/week housing stipend
