An Americorps Volunteer at a SFCCC clinic site.

Americorps National Direct

Service Description
AmeriCorps National Direct members focus on direct service by assisting health center patients and community residents in San Francisco's culturally diverse neighborhoods to access and utilize available health resources to maintain and improve their health. They will provide culturally and linguistically appropriate health education, outreach, referrals and enrollment into programs directly to community members while getting the skills they need to pursue a health profession. Required skills are dependent on placement site. Specific Member activities will include:

• Outreach and Advocacy: Conduct outreach in the community (i.e. schools, community centers and shelters); provide education about available health resources and related programs, and health care options.
• Enrollment: Assist individuals with the enrollment process for health programs and health insurance plans.
• Improve Utilization of Health Services and Programs: Provide health education in one-on-one or group settings; assist individuals with navigating health related services/programs; transportation assistance; provide positive reinforcement of treatment plans and prevention goals; follow-up as needed.
• Volunteer Recruitment and Volunteer Training and Management: Assist with recruitment, training, and retention of non-AmeriCorps volunteers; assist with the management of non-AmeriCorps volunteers.
• Service Projects: participate in various community service projects; coordinate and engage members in planning and participating in community service projects.
• Training on health skills and resources as needed for placement.

Currently we have members placed in 15 different placement sites throughout San Francisco. More information on the HealthCorps Service locations can be found here.


Program Benefits
We offer only full-time, stipended AmeriCorps positions. Full-time members receive a $12,000 stipend for approximately eleven months of service (a minimum of 1,700 hours), and receive a $5,350 educational award upon completion of their term of service. Health benefits, child care and student loan deferments during service are also available to those who qualify.

Service positions are available through the San Francisco Community HealthCorps as community health workers, health educators, outreach workers, and more. Members serve a wide variety of people in San Francisco’s diverse, under-served communities, including children, youth, women, and patients who are homeless, HIV-positive, or in need of diabetic care.

Recruitment Information
The San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium in currently not recruiting Americorps Members. The application cycle for the 2012-2013 program year will begin in Spring 2012.

How to Apply

1. Visit www.americorps.gov and click on "My Americorps"

2. Register to create your own personal account. Once you have applied to My AmeriCorps, you will get your own customized home page, where you can see the status of your application, update profile information and references, search for opportunities of interest, and submit your application.

3. Submit your completed AmeriCorps application via your My AmeriCorps account to Community Healthcorps-San Francisco. We will access your application through the portal and you will be notified when it is under review.

4. Complete our supplemental application via Survey Monkey. Click here to take survey.

Please be advised: AMERICORPS POSITIONS WILL BE SUBJECT TO A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK. Please consider this information before submitting your application.

For more information about any of the Americorps Programs at SFCCC please contact Sarah Gordon at (415) 355-2247 or sgordon@sfccc.org.