ORGANIZATION SUMMARY Colorado Youth for a Change (CYC) is an educational nonprofit organization with a statewide scope, which provides direct service to high school aged youth. CYC’s mission is to solve Colorado’s dropout crisis. CYC utilizes an outreach, relationship, and case management approach to support in-school youth to remain in school. CYC started Corps for a Change in 2015 as a way to increase preventative programming within the organization. Corps for a Change focuses on increasing student engagement and attendance. POSITION SUMMARY Corps for a Change members will support a caseload of 20-40 students who are at-risk of dropping out due to low attendance and lack of school engagement. The position is full-time (35- 40 hours per week), with school breaks and holidays off. AmeriCorps members engage in an intake process to assess what support students might need to be more engaged. AmeriCorps members will focus on interventions such as one-on-one meetings, home visits, phone calls, resource referrals, tutoring and other schoolwide attendance and engagement initiatives. Due to COVID-19, some of these services may be provided remotely. The goal of the members’ term of service is to support students to be more engaged in school, improve attendance, and help support a path toward academic success. HOURS AND TERM OF SERVICE: Members are required to serve full-time, during a typical school schedule, with some mandatory night and weekend hours, depending on the needs of the service site. A typical member schedule is from 7:30am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. However, this can be flexible depending on the needs of the site and/or the member. 675 hours of service are to be completed between January 9, 2023 and May 31st, 2023.