CYCA

What is AmeriCorps*VISTA?

AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) is the national service program designed specifically to fight poverty. VISTA provides full-time members to nonprofit, faith-based and other community organizations, and public agencies to create and expand programs that ultimately bring low-income individuals and communities out of poverty. VISTA members commit to serving communities by building capacity through indirect services.

What is the Good Works for Youth Program?

Good Works for Youth is a program of the Colorado Youth Corps Association (CYCA). In the project there are 40 VISTA members volunteering at 25 host sites across Colorado. Host sites include youth conservation corps, other environmental youth-serving organizations and non-profits that focus on youth development. The goal of our VISTA program is to improve and increase services for youth living in poverty and to connect these young people to their communities and their environment.

VISTA members in the Good Works for Youth program focus on building sustainability through fundraising efforts, programmatic improvements and infrastructure support and development.

Who are the host sites?

• Big City Mountaineers
• Bluff Lake Nature Center
• Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County
• cityWILD
• Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education
• Colorado Division of Wildlife
• Colorado Youth Corps Association
• Durango Nature Studies
• Eagle River Youth Coalition
• Environmental Learning for Kids
• Friends of the Dillon Ranger District
• Groundwork Denver
• Larimer County Youth Conservation Corps
• Long View High School
• Mile High Youth Corps
• Mile High Youth Corps-Colorado Springs
• Partners in Routt County
• Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory
• Rocky Mountain Youth Corps
• Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership
• Southwest Conservation Corps — Los Valles
• Southwest Conservation Corps — Four Corners
• Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado
• Western Colorado Conservation Corps
• Wildlands Restoration Volunteers

Interested in becoming a host site? Interested in becoming a VISTA volunteer? Interested in learning more about the Colorado Youth Corps Association or the Good Works for Youth VISTA program?