2019 Response

CATHOLICVOLUNTEERNETWORK .ORG | RESPONSE 2019 TYPE OF PLACEMENT: The Cristo Rey Jesuit Volunteer program connects men and women who wish to serve as educators in a low-income community with the opportunity to work in an innovative educational environment. Cristo Rey Jesuit High School was established to provide working Latino families of Chicago's Southwest Side with the opportunity to provide their children with a Jesuit, trips, and were involved in your high school youth group and college campus ministry programs. • You're friendly, positive, open. You smile. You're fun. You get involved in the action. You understand that a year of service is not about you, your own comforts, your own preferences but about giving your talents and time selflessly to help the lives of those you serve. • You are excited about being part of a professional environment. You will be a good role model to the young men and women we serve in your dress, your attitude, your professionalism. Ideally, you've worked before or even better if you've had experience working and/ or volunteering with the homeless and/or teenagers. • You're a leader or maybe you were an RA in a college dorm, or you led a service trip over spring break, or you ran retreats with your campus ministry office. You are a competent self-starter. • You want to live in community. You're excited about the idea of getting to know others, to share meals with them, to serve alongside them, and to grow in prayer with them. • Available to serve for one year beginning in late August. FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS: Faith Community members are provided with room and board, medical insurance, $100/month living stipend, vacation time and $500 vacation stipend, a $1200 End- of-Year Service Award, two community retreats, deferral of most student loans. LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Faith Community members live together in housing that is provided by Covenant House. SIZE OF PROGRAM: 10 volunteers TRAINING: One week of Formation at beginning of Faith Community commitment. On-going support through Faith Community administration and from local site resource persons. On-the-job training and ongoing workshops/training via service site throughout your service commitment. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Our Early Bird Deadline will be February 1st, Mid-Deadline April 15th, Final Deadline June 15th. However, we recommend candidates submit their applications in as soon as possible for priority consideration. Cristo Rey Jesuit Volunteers Cristo Rey Jesuit High School 1852 West 22nd Place Chicago, IL 60608 773-890-6800 jdillon@cristorey.net w cristorey.net L @cristoreychi CONTACT: Jason Dillon, Program Director AFFILIATIONS: Cristo Rey Jesuit High School GOAL OF PROGRAM: Mission: Cristo Rey Jesuit High School provides a Catholic, college preparatory education and professional work experience to students from Spanish speaking families with limited financial means. Vision: The reason for the school's existence is to advance the human and intellectual capacities, as well as the religious and cultural heritage, of the immigrant families it serves. Through its Corporate Work Study Program, faith-based college preparatory education, and Spanish heritage language curriculum, the goal is to prepare students to succeed in college and to assume leadership roles in the civic, religious, business and cultural life of our city and nation. As committed alumni of a Jesuit high school, graduates become men and women for others who are open to growth, religious, intellectually competent, loving, committed to justice, and work experienced.

FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS: Room and board, stipend, medical insurance, transportation to and frommission site, retreat and re-entry allowance. LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: When possible, lay missionaries live in community with other lay missionaries and are part of the larger Comboni community. Families typically live in their own housing separate from other lay missionaries. When possible, we place single people in housing together. SIZE OF PROGRAM: Five to twelve lay missionaries. TRAINING: The 14-week lay mission formation program takes place each Fall at our center in La Grange Park, IL. Lay Missionaries participate in community service once per week, spiritual direction every two weeks, possibly audit a course at Catholic Theological Union on mission theology, and have many other workshops at the mission center itself in the areas of peace and justice, scripture, cross- cultural adaptation, relationships, intimacy and sexuality, the Comboni charism, and collaborative leadership. The formation program closes with a silent retreat and commissioning ceremony. Our formation program is not a rigid experience that is identical from one year to the next. We are very flexible in terms of the content, emphasizing different areas each year based on the experience and background of the candidates. We also schedule in time for quiet and reflection so that the experience may truly be one of formation, rather than just a training or orientation program. APPLICATION DEADLINE: We accept applications on a rolling basis. However, as a general guideline, preliminary forms should be submitted by March 1 in order to be considered for the training program beginning in September. Check our website for the preliminary form. Covenant House Faith Community 5 Penn Plaza, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10001 212-727-4081 faithmail@covenanthouse.org w covenanthousefaithcommunity.org F facebook.com/covenanthousefaithcommunity L @CovHouseFaith CONTACT: Joan Conroy AFFILIATIONS: Covenant House - Nonprofit GOAL OF PROGRAM: Our service year program, Covenant House Faith Community, is looking for fun, friendly, compassionate college graduates to serve the homeless and at-risk youth of Covenant House, through direct care and administrative support roles. In addition to serving our youth and building professional skills, you will live with other college graduates focused on Catholic/Christian spirituality and simple community living. Faith Community members dedicate their year to our program's three pillars of service, community, and prayer. Your service takes place in one of our shelter sites, where you work 40 hours a week helping at-risk youth get back on a healthy life path. You are supported in this ministry by the community you live with: 3–5 other volunteers in a home provided by the program, where prayer and spirituality are a key parts of our daily lives. TYPE OF PLACEMENT: Faith Community members primarily serve at one of our Covenant House sites, in either direct care roles or in administrative support roles. The need of each agency and the gifts and talents of each volunteer determines service placement. AREA OF SERVICE: New York, NY and Atlantic City, NJ LENGTH OF SERVICE: 12 months (starting mid-August) REQUIREMENTS: Ideal Candidate: • You are a recent college graduate who is excited about service as a means of living out your Catholic/Christian Faith. Ideally, service is not new to you, you've been volunteering and going on mission

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