Our Service Programs

SCHOOL-BASED SERVICE PROGRAMS

City Year Cleveland's 50 corps members - 17-24 year olds giving a minimum of 1,700 hours of service - serve full-time for 10 months Monday through Thursday in Cleveland's schools.

As near-peers, corps members are effective tutors, mentors, role models and leaders of after-school programs, all of which help improve student attendance, behavior and coursework - which research confirms are indicators of a student's likelihood of graduating from high school. This school-based service is at the heart of City Year’s Whole School, Whole Child approach to helping students and schools succeed.

For more information on City Year's work in schools and communities, please visit our national website.

Teams of eight to 10 City Year Cleveland corps members serve as tutors, mentors, role models and leaders of after-school programs in five Cleveland schools:

East Technical High School
Glenville High School
John F. Kennedy High School
Martin Luther King, Jr. Career Campus
Thomas Jefferson's Ninth Grade Academy

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

City Year Cleveland's Civic Engagement Team works to leverage business and community resources by:

Establishing effective business/school partnerships in Cleveland's schools (tutors and monetary/in-kind donations).
Recruiting community volunteers into schools and service projects.
Planning and offering numerous service projects throughout the year involving students and community members.
Managing stakeholder engagement events.
Directing media relations and communications.

COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION

In addition to helping schools and students succeed, City Year corps members engage young people, community members, corporate partners and civic leaders through physical service projects:

Renovating schools and refurbishing community centers - Alcoa employees work with City Year Cleveland to renovate and paint portions of Cleveland's Giddings K-8 School.
Painting murals - Student volunteers joined City Year Cleveland corps members to paint murals at East Technical High School in February 2011.
Planting gardens - City Year Cleveland senior corps members joined community volunteers for a July 2011 service project at Cleveland's MLK High School.
Creating play spaces - CSX employees team with City Year Cleveland to create added value to this play space at a Cleveland Boys and Girls Club location.