AN EXAMPLE OF HOW PENNSYLVANIA CAMPUS COMPACT HAS ADAPTED A NEW

AMERICORPS*VISTA MODEL

Reframing the Conversation

Overview of Presentation

Why the conversation needs to be reframedHow to align Campus Compact & VISTA goalsHow to refocus project outcomes and

performance measuresHow to speak a new languageHow else can we adapt?

Why the conversation needs to be reframed

National & State VISTA Offices pushing sponsoring organizations to narrow focus

Increased accountability and focus on community outcomes

Change in Strategic Priority Areas from the White House (Engaging Students in Service no longer a priority)

College student outcomes seen as irrelevant to mission of AmeriCorps*VISTA

Old PACC*VISTA Goals New PACC*VISTA Goals

To develop and/or enhance campus-based efforts to address one of the identified AmeriCorps*VISTA service focus areas;

To integrate campus-community engagement and service efforts (including service-learning, community service, and work-study) so that local communities have better access to service resources and to meet the needs of low income communities more effectively and efficiently;

To support PACC with its mission to develop and/or enhance service programs and campus-community partnerships throughout Pennsylvania’s higher education network.

To develop or enhance campus-community efforts to address one of the identified project focus areas;

To create, develop, or sustain reciprocal, mutually beneficial partnerships between the campus and community organizations, leaders, and members;

To foster PACC*VISTA members as professionals and emerging leaders in the fields of community development, civic engagement, and/or higher education.

How to align Campus Compact and VISTA goals

How to refocus project outcomes and performance measures

All projects must focus in one of four specific project areas (tutoring, college access, food access, energy efficiency)

Each area has three prescribed results that all projects must fulfill

Both Logic Model and Performance Measures Form has pre-filled information

All Intermediate and End Outcomes focus on changes in lives of project beneficiaries

How to speak a new language

Campus-community versus campus-basedUse community partner name on all official

documentsCommunity outcomes are primary, college

student outcomes are secondary

How else can we adapt?

What else can we do to adapt? How do we need to support our members

through these processes?How do we showcase our changes to CNCS?