AmeriCorps VISTA

Help relaunch two exciting initiatives focused on eliminating poverty by improving educational and employment outcomes for students and adults within New Mexico and across the nation – CPICS and N4Arts.

Our national charter school member organization, the Coalition of Public Independent Charter Schools (CPICS), is relaunching to connect school leaders and communities by sharing effective practices through advocacy and service. 

The North Fourth Arts & Workforce Training Center (N4Arts), formerly a Very Special Arts (VSA) site, will reopen to offer all-abilities classes and expand programmatic offerings for adults who are deaf and/or developmentally disabled. 

  Located in Los Lunas, the School of Dreams Academy’s (SODA) mission is to provide state of the art education emphasizing Career and College Readiness and Community Service through a STEAM instructional model for students of the Rio Grande Valley. 

The VISTA member will develop and implement an internal system designed to effectively utilize resources and capture data to ensure efficient operations and organizational procedures. 

  This system will compile data related to attendance, behavior, coursework, to develop an intervention system focused on student success to drive interventions and improve graduation.

 Cypress Tree New Mexico (CTNM) supports educational innovation by deliberately and efficiently sharing our expertise and resources to improve outcomes for communities furthest from opportunity. 

 VISTA members will focus on these areas:

• Community Awareness and Engagement
• Financial Resources
• Outreach
• Performance Measurement
• Program Development and Delivery
• Technology Use
• Volunteer Recruitment and Management Systems