ASSET*AmeriCorps
Active Service Solutions for Economic Transition
United Cerebral Palsy of Texas is excited to be in the planning stages of a new initiative, ASSET*AmeriCorps.
ASSET*AmeriCorps currently operates under a One Star planning grant. Once funded as an operating grant, the program will mobilize a statewide corps of AmeriCorps members to directly serve people with disabilities as they overcome barriers to living independently in their community. Service activities will include: financial literacy training, housing counseling, adaptive technology assistance, and other supports toward independence. Find out more information about AmeriCorps at: www.americorps.gov
We are targeting the following regions to support the ASSET*AmeriCorps program:
- Austin and surrounding counties
- Killeen/Waco area
- Ft. Worth area (including Tarrant, Parker and Johnson counties)
- Dallas County
- Tyler and surrounding counties
- Greater Houston area (including Harris, Ft. Bend and Montgomery counties)
- San Antonio area (Bexar county)
- Corpus Christi and surrounding counties
- El Paso County
UCP Texas currently houses an AmeriCorps*VISTA member, Don Corr, who is actively organizing ASSET*AmeriCorps Outreach meetings in the above nine regions. He is also helping to develop the ASSET curriculum which will be administered by UCP Texas once the ASSET*AmeriCorps project goes into operating mode in Spring 2008.
If your agency or organization is interested in learning more about how you can be involved, please contact Sarah Watkins at (512) 472-8696 ext. 203 or (sarah@ucptexas.org).
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