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I didn't want to derail someone else's thread, so I made my own.
My major non-clinical volunteering activity was tutoring literacy skills for teenage boys ages 12-21 incarcerated at a juvenille detention facility. Youths would get referred to us by the school staff because they were reading far below grade level and needed the one-on-one to improve their reading comprehension skills to be able to eventually pass the GED or have better success in the credit recovery online high school run by the state.
Someone else on SDN whose thread I was reading did volunteer tutoring through the Boys & Girls Clubs. Mr. Smile said that that could get internally reclassified as teaching/tutoring, which is separate from service orientation. That's the thread that made me think about my situation and wonder.
I am hoping to do Americorps during my gap year. The best "bites" (most interviews) I have gotten from Americorps positions have been literacy-type positions. It could be because that's where a lot of my experience and training is (Psychology major with some Education coursework and a lot of paid kid experience), so I am having better luck with getting interviews for that type of thing.
Questions:
#1.) I am not doing a very good job phrasing my question, but I was wondering if *because it was a prison* if this activity did a good job of showing service orientation or if I should consider this more teaching/tutoring for my own school-list making purposes because it might get internally reclassified that way.
#2.) The alternative to Americorps would be to take another job where I don't have to move and just do more nonclinical volunteering in the evenings. If the only Americorps positions I can get are along educational lines and less housing/food/job placement, would it be better to get any paid job and then get involved with organizations that do that type of thing (housing/food/job placement) in the evenings?
I didn't want to derail someone else's thread, so I made my own.
My major non-clinical volunteering activity was tutoring literacy skills for teenage boys ages 12-21 incarcerated at a juvenille detention facility. Youths would get referred to us by the school staff because they were reading far below grade level and needed the one-on-one to improve their reading comprehension skills to be able to eventually pass the GED or have better success in the credit recovery online high school run by the state.
Someone else on SDN whose thread I was reading did volunteer tutoring through the Boys & Girls Clubs. Mr. Smile said that that could get internally reclassified as teaching/tutoring, which is separate from service orientation. That's the thread that made me think about my situation and wonder.
I am hoping to do Americorps during my gap year. The best "bites" (most interviews) I have gotten from Americorps positions have been literacy-type positions. It could be because that's where a lot of my experience and training is (Psychology major with some Education coursework and a lot of paid kid experience), so I am having better luck with getting interviews for that type of thing.
Questions:
#1.) I am not doing a very good job phrasing my question, but I was wondering if *because it was a prison* if this activity did a good job of showing service orientation or if I should consider this more teaching/tutoring for my own school-list making purposes because it might get internally reclassified that way.
#2.) The alternative to Americorps would be to take another job where I don't have to move and just do more nonclinical volunteering in the evenings. If the only Americorps positions I can get are along educational lines and less housing/food/job placement, would it be better to get any paid job and then get involved with organizations that do that type of thing (housing/food/job placement) in the evenings?
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