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Monday, September 28, 2015
From September 2, 2014 through September 1, 2015, 10 AmeriCorps members, all Youngstown residents, committed a year of service to to YNDC to board up, clean-up, repair, and rehabilitate vacant properties in our city's neighborhoods.
Over the course of this year, these AmeriCorps REVITALIZE team members boarded up and cleaned up 482 vacant homes in over a dozen neighborhoods across the city and rehabilitated 13 vacant and previously abandoned housing units. Seven AmeriCorps members successfully completed their full year of service and earned a Segal Education Award, which can help to pay for tuition at college or trade school to further their careers. Six of these members have renewed their service commitment for a second year.
The success and impact of the program's first year led both the City of Youngstown and ServeOhio to increase support for the project for the 2015-2016 program year. The YNDC REVITALIZE AmeriCorps program now hosts 13 AmeriCorps members and has an expanded scope of service. New activities include cutting grass for the city's nearly 3,000 vacant and unmaintained vacant homes and additional rehabilitation work that helps to increase the construction skills of the members and expand YNDC's capacity to rehabilitate more houses.