We’re grateful to begin serving the brand new Credible Messenger Corps, Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement’s (CM3’s) AmeriCorps program. The program will have 50 AmeriCorps members (Credible Messenger Mentors) who will mentor, support, and advance justice-involved youth in New York, Ohio, Georgia, Louisiana and California.
By the end of the first year, the Credible Messenger Mentors will have served 500 justice-involved youth overall, 300 of whom will be served through one-on-one transformative mentoring and the reminader being served through community outreach activities. The Credible Messenger Mentors and justice-involved youth will improve the capacity of their communities, turning back the impacts of poverty and marginalization by developing career pathways for themselves, assuming leadership roles, and improving public safety. All of the Credible Messenger Mentors will be community-rooted natural leaders who have successfully navigated their own prior involvement in the justice system and share similar life experiences with young people and families that they serve.
CM3 will be using the Impact Suite to make AmeriCorps compliance around AmeriCorps member files and timesheets a non-issue, giving staff more time to focus on programming and far less time on administrative grant compliance tasks.
Welcome!