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AmeriCorps Economic Empowerment & Special Projects Vista

AMERICORPS ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT & SPECIAL PROJECTS VISTA


Overview: The Coalition's Economic Empowerment & Special Projects VISTA will work to identify means of administering our Financial Empowerment Curriculum, which includes collaboration with regional and national domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions. In this position, they will work with current AmeriCorps (AVAP) members to assess their current training needs, develop new models for engagement and create relevant trainings and comprehensive curriculums which include financial literacy skills.

The VISTA will also work with state and legal resources to develop an awareness of fair housing and tenants' rights and conduct community outreach to foster awareness of financial abuse and its societal impacts.

While in this position, the VISTA will facilitate monthly housing advocate meetings and identify relevant speakers who will assist with enhancing advocates' skillset and knowledge of the correlations between housing and economic justice. Additionally, the VISTA will work with the Coalition’s Public Affairs team to create and promote social media postings.

Program Benefits : Relocation allowance, choice of education award or end of service stipend, living allowance, health coverage, training, and childcare assistance (if eligible).

Terms: With this position, attendance at school during off-hours, and working at another job during off-hours are permitted. Access to a vehicle is also recommended. Applicants must be 18 or older. Some college experience is preferred.

Relevant skills for the job:
  • writing/editing
  • teamwork
  • communications
  • social services
  • community organizing

Anticipated program start: 08/30/2021 

Program end: 08/29/2022


More information about financial abuse: Financial abuse is one of the most powerful tactics an abuser utilizes to maintain power and control over their victims. It is a daunting reality for individuals experiencing domestic violence. In the last decade, the pervasive effects of financial abuse and its impact on an individual’s ability to leave an abusive situation have become increasingly evident to advocates and researchers in the field of domestic violence. Families impacted by domestic violence in New Hampshire are no exception to this phenomenon.

Approximately 98% of those who have been victims of domestic violence experience financial abuse (Allstate Foundation, 2014). Economic dependence and lack of economic options have been identified as the strongest indicator of whether a victim will stay and/or return to an abusive relationship. According to the Allstate Foundation's National Survey in 2018 in 99 % of cases of domestic violence, the main reason a survivor could not flee and had to remain within their relationships was financial abuse. T

he New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and its twelve member programs provide free and confidential services to victims of domestic and sexual violence, including underserved and under-resourced counties. Most domestic violence victims served by the NHCADSV are classified as low income or very low income (200% of poverty level or below.) Individuals who experience poverty tend to be at a higher risk of experiencing violence.

According to the National Network to End Domestic Violence, a study showed that over a 12-month period men and women who experienced food insecurity or housing insecurity had an increased risk of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner during coinciding with this period of insecurity. In increasing the capacity for the Coalition to provide economic empowerment services we are creating safer communities and decreasing barriers for survivors.