WASHINGTON SERVICE CORPS

Washington Service Corps is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We acknowledge as a program and as individuals that we continually grow in our understanding of privilege and bias. We know, too, that we must work to remove institutional barriers to service and continue to work to be as inclusive as possible... In 1983, the Washington state legislature established the Washington Service Corps (WSC) to promote community service and support youth employment around the state. The WSC was the first program of its kind in the nation. A decade later, the federal government created the AmeriCorps national service program, looking at WSC as one of the models for that program's design... In 1998, our Washington Reading Corps program was created through a collaboration between the Governor's office, Serve Washington, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the WSC. This program solely focuses on improving literacy in children and students, placing AmeriCorps..

Primary location: Olympia United States