As a tutor and mentor with City Year, you will make a difference in children’s lives and help develop a new generation of leaders. City Year Chicago’s service programs include school-based service, youth leadership, and community transformation.
As a City Year Chicago corps member, you will respond to the challenges facing public education by providing:
- Academic Support: Corps members provide small group literacy tutoring to 6th to 8th graders in the school. Through the meaningful connections you develop with the students you serve, you will strengthen students’ skills that correlate with success and active learning in schools, such as encouraging competence and self-confidence.
- Positive School Climate: You will support an environment where students want and are excited to learn by providing a diverse and peaceful peer network.
- After-School Programming: As a positive role model and mentor, you will reinforce key learning and development milestones and provide social enrichment programming such as address pressing social issues, such as "Peace in their Community" and "the Environment” to help students succeed.
As a corps member (or if you want to mention WSWC: Through City Year’s WSWC service model), you will provide extra academic support to struggling students during their classroom time, re-teaching and focusing on new material the students are learning. They also provide the presence of an extra adult in the classroom to limit misbehavior so students can focus on their school work. Junior Great Books Program
Corps members also will run a program called Junior Great Books which teaches students skills around how to become more critical readers. Corps members engage students in group discussions around assigned readings for a more in-depth understanding of literature.
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DIPLOMAS NOW Initiative
Diplomas Now unites three organizations – Talent Development, City Year and Communities In Schools –with years of experience in youth service. The Philadelphia Education Fund serves as a national training and technical assistance partner. The partners complement each other and also collaborate with local education reform efforts. The level and type of support is planned between the corps member and teachers, through weekly meetings.
Through Diploma Now, corps members:
- Provide general academic support for targeted students.
- Follow an assigned a group of students who demonstrate off track (towards graduation) indicators in every class.
- Assist in classes and small group math or literacy tutoring.
One of the important ways City Year Chicago corps members share their belief in service and their commitment to helping children is by leading programs that teach Chicago’s middle school, and high school students about their ability to make a difference.
Young Heroes
Young Heroes is a service-learning program for middle school students that answered an eighth grader’s question “Why can’t I be in City Year?” The program teaches students about leadership and commitment through service projects and educational sessions on topics like hunger and homelessness, diversity, and urban health issues.
City Heroes
City Heroes is a service learning and leadership development program for high school students. City Heroes participants discuss topics affecting our communities and do service that directly relates to those topics. Topics include youth and the media, violence and AIDS/HIV.
Learn more about joining our Youth Leadership programs.
 | In addition to helping schools and students reach new heights, City Year corps members transform communities through physical service projects such as: - Painting murals
- Planting gardens
- Creating playspaces
- Renovating schools
- Refurbishing community centers
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By engaging community members, corporate partners, and civic leaders in this work, corps members help share the power of service.
Camp City Year Chicago
Camp City Year Chicago is a positive day camp experience conducted during Chicago Public School’s Spring Break, providing assistance to working parents while teaching the core City Year values of diversity, service and responsibility.
Sign up for Camp City Year Chicago.