What is AmeriCorps?
AmeriCorps is a national service program that provides thousands of Americans with an opportunity to give back to their communities. AmeriCorps members serve in nonprofits, public agencies, and faith-based organizations. Since the program was created in 1994, over 270,000 individuals have served their communities and country as AmeriCorps members. AmeriCorps members receive a modest living allowance, student-loan forbearance, health coverage, end of service education award, and child care for those who qualify.

What is Homes for All?
Homes for All is the only AmeriCorps program primarily focused on housing and homelessness in Kentucky. Led by the Homeless & Housing Coalition of Kentucky (HHCK), the mission of the Homes for All program is to provide housing-related services to individuals and families across Kentucky who are experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, or in search of affordable homeownership opportunities.

What can Homes for All members do?
Our Homes for All members serve at nonprofits, public agencies, and government institutions. Our direct service AmeriCorps members serve at housing nonprofits around the state, providing housing and homeless services. Services include new home construction, home repairs, housing-focused case management, homelessness prevention, rapid rehousing, homeownership counseling, and housing navigation.

Our capacity-building AmeriCorps VISTA members address issues affecting individuals living at the poverty level. They focus on activities such as grant writing, fundraising, program development and improvement, identify new systems, community outreach, volunteer management, volunteer recruitment, and volunteer training. This indirect work helps organizations build their capacity to provide services that are more effective and efficient or reach more people.

AmeriCorps Service Can Lead to New Careers or Employment!

AmeriCorps experience helps individuals develop new skills and strengthen existing skills that are essential for organizations and companies when they look to hire. National service alumni are strong leaders who are motivated, flexible, innovative, and outcome‐oriented. They learn quickly and work well on diverse teams.

Each year, a number of our AmeriCorps members are hired by their service site or an outside company because of the advantage their AmeriCorps experience provides them. Just at HHCK alone, we currently have 8 AmeriCorps alum on staff!

For more information, check out Employers of National Service - a search engine that connects you with organizations that give special consideration to AmeriCorps alum.

Current AmeriCorps Service Sites and AmeriCorps VISTA Project Sites
AmeriCorps Service Sites
Arbor Youth Services (Lexington)
Beattyville Housing and Development Corporation
Bethany Haven (Bardstown)
CAReS (Ashland)
Community Action Council of Lexington
Elizabeth’s Village (Georgetown)
Family Scholar House (Louisville)
Frontier Housing (Morehead)
Gateway Homeless Coalition (Morehead)
Homeless and Housing Coalition of Kentucky (Frankfort)
Hope’s Wings (Richmond)
Housing Development Alliance (Hazard)
Lexington Fair Housing Council
Partnership Housing (Booneville)
Safe Harbor (Ashland)
Shelter of Hope (Ashland)
Simon House (Frankfort)
The Nest Center for Women, Children, and Family (Lexington)
The Sunshine Center (Frankfort)

AmeriCorps VISTA Project Sites
Bethany Haven (Bardstown)
Change Today, Change Tomorrow (Louisville)
Coalition for the Homeless (Louisville)
Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky (Covington)
Fahe (Berea)
Family Scholar House (Louisville)
Friends of the Franklin County Farmers Market (Frankfort)
Henderson Habitat for Humanity
Homeless and Housing Coalition of Kentucky (Frankfort)
Hope Center (Lexington)
Housing Authority of Bowling Green
Partnership Housing (Booneville)
Room in the Inn (Franklin)