What You'll Do

At City Year’s locations across the United States, young people called corps members serve full-time for 10 months, each providing more than 1,700 hours of service.

School-Based Service

Corps members serve in schools full-time as tutors, mentors, role models and leaders of after-school programs. As a corps member, you will help students stay on track and get back on track to graduate by improving their attendance, behavior and course performance. You will provide academic support, attendance monitoring and incentives, positive behavior support, after-school programming and in-school activities that improve the overall school environment.

Youth Leadership

One of the important ways corps members share their commitment to service and helping children is by leading programs that teach students how to be active citizens in their communities and make a difference.

Community Transformation

Corps members also engage community members and corporate partners in physical service projects including renovating schools, painting murals, planting gardens and creating playspaces.

“I joined City Year so that every student has the opportunity to know what it is like to walk across the stage and receive a high school diploma. This year, I served as a tutor and mentor in an urban middle school. One student I worked with, Mikey, was often late or absent, and disengaged when he was in class so he was doing poorly. I tutored him one-on-one in math, led a small reading group that included him and met with him during our lunch mentoring program.

“Everyone at school saw him change. First he started coming to school more often, then he began coming to school on time and before long, Mikey was coming to school early. By the second semester, Mikey’s lowest grade on a math test was a B+ and his reading improved by a full grade and he was working well with classmates.

“He’s in high school now and on his way to earning his diploma.”

– Rachelle Jean Baptiste, Corps Member