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Current Kentucky AmeriCorps Programs

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​2024-25 Kentucky AmeriCorps Programs​​

Many of the AmeriCorps programs listed below have open service positions for the 2024-25 program year. Contact the listed AmeriCorps program director ​or search for Kentucky program openings on My.AmeriCorps.gov.​​

Governor Andy Beshear announced the funding in September 2024. Programs​ began either August 1 or September 1, 2024. ​View current service sites on Google Maps.

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Click on the program name below for service locations​ and contact information.​


​American Connection Corps​

AmeriCorps members serve in programs focused on Bridging the Digital Divide in communities throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. (Economic Opportunity)
Member Positions: 8 full-time
Service Locations: Statewide

Program Sponsor and Contacts:

Lead For America​
Scott McFarland, (217) 720-4716 or Jennifer Hopp​er

Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps members provide housing development and repair, emergency utility and crisis assistance, hunger relief, affordable clothing, preschool, in-school, after-school, and summer education, teen leadership development, companionship and transportation for the elderly and individuals with disabilities, disaster relief, and volunteer generation and support in or for residents in the service locations. (Economic Opportunity and Education)
Member Positions: 53 part-time
Service Locations: Southeastern and Eastern Kentucky (Clay, Floyd, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Magoffin, Martin, McCreary, Owsley, Pike, Rockcastle, and Whitley counties​)

Program Sponsor and Contacts:

Christian Appalachian Project (Paintsville)
Amy Schill, (606) 392-4495​​ or Bridget McCormack-Finley

Environmental Education Leadership Corps

AmeriCorps members provide environmental education programs, lessons, and activities to the public in various locations throughout Kentucky. (Environmental Stewardship)​
Member Positions: 20 full and part-time
Service Locations: Statewide

Program Sponsor and Contacts:

Kentucky Environmental Education Council (Frankfort)
Ashley Mike, (502) 564-0690 or Willa Bayne​

Family Resource and Youth Services Centers (FRYSC) Corps

AmeriCorps members tutor students in literacy and provide basic needs support to school-age children in Family Resource and Youth Services Centers (FRYSC) in Kentucky public schools. (Education)​
Member Positions: 73 full- and part-time
Service Locations: Ballard, Barren, Boyd, Bullitt, Casey, Crittenden, Daviess, Estill, Fayette, Fleming, Gallatin, Harlan, Jackson, Johnson, Knox, Laurel, Lincoln, Logan, Madison, McCracken, McCreary, Mercer, Owen, Pulaski, Russell, Spencer, Taylor, Wayne, Webster, and Whitley counties
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Program Sponsor and Contact:

Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative (Shelbyville)
Heather Musinski, (502) 564-4986, Ext. 3831, April Hess, (502) 564-4986, Ext. 3844 or Maya Owens​​

Global Game Changers AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps members teach students in Global Game Changers Expanded Learning Programs in Jefferson County, providing enrichment instruction resulting in gains in social-emotional skills, power skills, and academics. 
Member Positions: 12 full and part-time
Service Locations: Jefferson County

Program Sponsor and Contacts:

Global Game Changers Children’s Education Initiative (Louisville)
Alyssa Zediker (502) 558-5732 or Anne Walker ​​​

HCTC PeerForward

AmeriCorps members serve as peer mentors, using the PeerForward mentoring model, to diverse learners who need intrusive support as well as mentoring high school dual credit students with accommodations, encouraging them to matriculate at to college at one or more of HCTC's three locations and off-campus instructional sites. (Education)
Member Positions: 6 part-time
Service Locations: Breathitt, Leslie, and Perry counties​

Program Sponsor and Contacts:​

Hazard Community and Technical College
Linda Patrick or Lucy Langdon​

Hindman Settlement School​ AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps members provide tutoring and other intervention services in public school classrooms and community-based settings for students in grades K-12 with one or more dyslexia indicators in four Eastern Kentucky counties. (Education)​
Member Positions: 32 full-time
Service Locations: Floyd, Knott, Leslie, ​and Perry counties​

AmeriCorps members provide math tutoring and other intervention services in public school classrooms and community-based settings for students below grade-level math proficiency in grades K-12 in two Eastern Kentucky counties. (Education)​
Member Positions: 20 full-time
Service Locations: Floyd ​and Perry counties​​

Program Sponsor and Contacts: 

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Homes for All AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps members provide housing services to individuals experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, or are in search of affordable housing opportunities in Kentucky.​ (Economic Opportunity)​
Member Positions: 28 full-time
Service Locations: Statewide 

Program Sponsor and Contacts:

Homeless and Housing Coalition of Kentucky (Frankfort)
Holly Dennis, (502) 223-1834, Ext. 103​​ or Valerie Roberts​​

​I Would Rather Be Reading AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps members provide out-of-school programming in the roles of student and family/community liaisons in West and South Louisville. (Education)
Member Positions: 8 part-time
Service Locations: Jefferson County

Program Sponsor and Contact:
 I Would Rather Be Reading (IWRBR)
Sara Hannah

iFoster TAY AmeriCorps Kentucky

AmeriCorps members serve as Peer Navigators and provide outreach to 14- to 24-year-old transition-age foster and kinship youth (TAY) and connecting to existing resources and support systems designed to help them achieve self-sufficiency success with a focus on daily living, education, employment and health and well-being. ​(Economic Opportunity)
Member Positions: 12 full- and part-time
Service Locations: Clay, Leslie, Perry, Letcher, Harlan, Bell, Knox, and Whitley counties​​

Program Sponsor and Contact:

iFoster​ (California)
Jordan Collins​ or Summer Rogers​, (213) 429-7015​

Kentucky College Coaches

AmeriCorps members serve as peer success coaches to support college and career readiness, student retention, engagement, and completion in junior high schools, high schools, area technology centers, colleges, and universities statewide. (Education)​
Member Positions: 165 full- and part-time
Service Locations: Statewide 

Program Sponsor and Contacts:

Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation (Highland Heights)
Gayle Hilleke, (859) 572-7634​​

Kentucky Public Health AmeriCorps​

AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers (CHW's) in local health departments in communities across Kentucky in core public health programs, including HANDS, WIC, and Harm Reduction. (Capacity Building)
Member Positions: 75 part-time
Service Locations: Statewide​

Program Sponsor and Contact:

Kentucky Health Departments Association
Whitney Reynolds or Natalee Cleveland​​

KY ​Health Corps

AmeriCorps members will provide healthcare support to seniors and disabled individuals in 50 healthcare facilities. (Capacity Building)
Member Positions: 200 part-time​
Service Locations: Statewide​

Program Sponsor and Contact:

Megan Eldridge​, (502) 265-6955 or Sarah Brady​

PartnerCorps PRI (Partners for Rural Impact)

AmeriCorps members mentor and tutor high school students to increase math achievement. (Education)
Member Positions: 66 full- and part-time
Service Locations: ​Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher, Perry and Whitley counties​

Program Sponsor and Contacts:

Partne​rs for Rural Impact (Berea)​
Rob Bowers, (859) 200-3280 or Beverly Strange, (859) 985-4102

REACH Corps AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps members mentor students in elementary, middle, and high schools in Jefferson County Public Schools to improve student attendance and/or behavioral outcomes. (Education)
Member Positions: 20 part-time
Service Locations: Jefferson County

Program Sponsor and Contacts:

Jefferson County Public Schools (Louisville)
Ben Langley, (502) 485-3926

Senior Connections

AmeriCorps members provide various nutritional services and social support to senior citizens throughout the seven-county Green River Area Development District region to lower food insecurity. (Healthy Futures) ​
Member Positions: 28 full-time
Service Locations: Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McLean, Ohio, Union, and Webster counties

Program Sponsor and Contacts:

Green River Area Development District (Owensboro)
Brad Alley, (270) 926-4433 or Mary Ashford​, (270) 636-3166​​

​Southeast Conservation Corps Kentucky​

AmeriCorps members engage in disaster response and public lands maintenance activities across Kentucky. (Environmental Stewardship)
Member Positions: 8 part-time​
Service Locations: Statewide​

Program Sponsor and Contact:

Fiscal Agent: Conservation Legacy
Darcy Welch​ ​

Teach For America - Appalachia

Professional Corps AmeriCorps members are responsible for teaching for two years in low-income and under-resourced schools. (Education)
Member Positions: 28 full-time
Service Locations:  Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Knox, Leslie, Letcher, Martin, Menifee, and Perry counties​

Program Sponsor and Contact:

Teach For America (Hazard)
Rosie Ballinger or Rachel Weber Jones​ ​

Teach Kentucky AmeriCorps

Professional Corps AmeriCorps members teach in high-needs content areas such as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), Special Education, and other content areas needed to address school staffing shortages in local public schools in Jefferson and surrounding counties. (Education)
Member Positions: 53 full-time
Service Locations: Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Meade, Nelson, and Oldham counties

Program Sponsor and Contacts:

Teach Kentucky (Louisville)
Max Morley or Rowan Claypool​​​​

UNITE Service Corps

AmeriCorps members tutor students in mathematics, teach "Too Good for Drugs" drug prevention curriculum, and sponsor UNITE drug prevention clubs in Eastern Kentucky schools. (Education)
Member Positions: 56 part-time
Service Locations: Bell, Boyd, Carter, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lawrence, Leslie, Letcher, Lincoln, Magoffin, Martin, Owsley, Pike, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Whitley, and Wolfe counties​

Program Sponsor and Contact:

Operation UNITE (London/Somerset/Prestonsburg​)
Crystal Smallwood, (606) 369-4408 or ​​Benji Hammons​, (606) 330-1400​

YouthBuild Urban Conservation Corps​

AmeriCorps members participate in hands-on environmental education and career readiness service activities that engage opportunity youth in meaningful, urban projects and service while building workforce skills for the green job sector in Louisville. (Environmental Stewardship)​
Member Positions: 24 full- and part-time
Service Locations: Jefferson County

Program Sponsor and Contact: