Promise Fellows
AmeriCorps Promise Fellows spend a year nurturing the promise of individual students in middle and high schools throughout Minnesota.
Promise Fellow Leader Lillie Williamson.
Promise Fellow Sai works with students in 2023.
2022 Promise Fellows meet for a picnic.
2022 Promise Fellows meet for a picnic.
Promise Fellows Anthony and John served at Washburn High School in 2023.
The 2022 Promise Fellows cohort pose for a photo.
Promise Fellow Leader Lillie Williamson.
Promise Fellow Sai works with students in 2023.
2022 Promise Fellows meet for a picnic.
2022 Promise Fellows meet for a picnic.
Promise Fellows Anthony and John served at Washburn High School in 2023.
The 2022 Promise Fellows cohort pose for a photo.
Much More than Just a Tutor
As an AmeriCorps Promise Fellow, you’ll spend a year helping a small group of Minnesota young people in grades 6 to 12 get the education they need to start off strong in life.
Much more than a tutor, you’ll work one-on-one with students who are struggling in school using the proven Promise Fellow Model for youth support. You’ll foster your students’ unique talents, honor their voices, and help them prepare them for graduation and beyond.
The work will be challenging, and you’re guaranteed to grow and change along the way. But all year long, you’ll have the support you need: financial assistance, mentorship and leadership training, and the extraordinary community of other Promise Fellows, present and past
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Where You’ll Serve
Promise Fellows serve in schools and community organizations across Minnesota — large, urban school districts like Minneapolis Public Schools, and small, rural schools, or community organizations like YMCAs and Boys and Girls Clubs. You might serve with a group of Promise Fellows, or you might be the only AmeriCorps member on site. Wherever you serve, you’ll have both a site-based and Alliance-based team of support to help you have the best year possible.
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Who You’ll Serve
AmeriCorps Promise Fellows each work with a “focus list” of 30 students that are identified based on data related to the attendance, engagement and work completion data.
Students on your list are typically those that are struggling to engage in school and may lack connections to caring adults, academic support, or opportunities to become engaged in their community.
The AmeriCorps Promise Fellows program prepares caring adults to help individual Minnesota young people in grades 6 to 12 get the education they need to start off strong in life.
Youth Mental Health Corps
One in three high school students report persistent feelings of hopelessness, and approximately 122 million people live in a Mental Health Professional Shortage Area. To help address the youth mental health crisis, the Alliance is joining forces with ServeMinnesota, the Schultz Family Foundation, Pinterest and AmeriCorps to recruit, train, and deploy AmeriCorps members to help young people access critical mental health resources while simultaneously creating career opportunities for young adults. AmeriCorps Promise Fellows will be one of the pilot programs in the Minnesota’s AmeriCorps Youth Mental Health Corps!
All AmeriCorps Promise Fellows will receive training in youth mental health first aid, general first aid, and continued Motivational Interviewing skills, giving them a robust set of tools to help support students’ mental health. Beyond that training, Promise Fellows in the Youth Mental Health Corps will receive access to a wraparound supports for members’ mental health and wellness, as well as career navigation and job placement services.
The Rewards of Service
Watch Promise Fellows describe a typical day in their year of service, and listen to student Essence Blakemore tell he story of how a Promise Fellow named Jamie changed her life:
Ma Xiong
Promise Fellow, Patrick Henry High School, Minneapolis
Marisa Tejeda
Promise Fellow, High School for Recording Arts, Saint Paul
Toe Mahasongkham
Promise Fellow, Harding High School, Saint Paul
Emily Spoden
Promise Fellow, Northfield High School
Marcos Macias
Promise Fellow, White Bear Lake Area High School
Sarah
Promise Fellow, Simley High School, Inver Grove Heights
Kierstin Karlsrud
Promise Fellow, Minnesota Internship Center, Unity Campus
Ready to change young lives for the better? Apply for the Promise Fellows program today.
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Ready to change young lives for the better? Apply for the Promise Fellows program today.
