Center for Family Services is seeking AmeriCorps PowerCorps Camden members. PowerCorps Camden is recruiting young adults from Camden City and the surrounding community to serve full-time in a six-month AmeriCorps program to revitalize public land in the city. PowerCorps members work with city partners to tackle pressing environmental challenges. Projects aim to improve storm water management, clean and green vacant lots, improve community space and parks for Camden's young people, and revitalize public land in the city.

As an AmeriCorps VISTA member, you can build capacity and infrastructure development to more effectively bring individuals and communities out of poverty. Through activities such as fundraising, establishment of community volunteer recruitment and management systems, community outreach, and collaborative development, you can help to mobilize local resources to achieve lasting solutions to poverty. As a VISTA member you will focus efforts on building organizational, administrative, and financial capacity with the goal of achieving transformative and sustainable outcomes.

Serve as an AmeriCorps Recovery Corps member where you will have the opportunity to expand access to care for individuals working to overcome opioid addiction and other substance use disorders.

AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) members are a dedicated group of individuals from across the nation making a commitment to full-time service for one year in a capacity building role to fight poverty in Camden City, New Jersey and the surrounding region. Service as an AmeriCorps VISTA member is an excellent way for you to gain professional experience and give back to your community at the same time.