Suny plattsburgh through our regional partnership, north country thrive, north country americorps*vista project?S mission is to address the needs of our rural, low-income community through…

Suny plattsburgh through our regional partnership, north country thrive, north country americorps*vista project?S mission is to address the needs of our rural, low-income community through collective action and asset based community solutions by utilizing regional data and vista support to improve outcomes through an anti-poverty focus that empowers the community through sustainable solutions and capacity building. The proposed vista project aligns with education, economic opportunity, and healthy futures focus areas. The vista project will focus on 1) housing and food insecurity 2) stem, education and employment 3) family development, strengthening families, and family education. 14 vista members and a vista leader will contribute to the goals of the project by performing activities such as: 1) volunteer recruitment, training and retention. 2) creating and implementing marketing plan to educate low-income community about available services 3) coordinating healthy eating programs and regional food shelf systems, along with funding and marketing of such programs 4) designing volunteer programming for targeted education programs within workforce development and economic development 4) helping to design, conduct and implement recommendations from a housing assessment study of our region over the course of 4 years. 5) developing a centralized data and resource directory for the region, among other important projects to ensure sustainability of the vista support. North country thrive at suny plattsburgh will be the lead agency and in our 2ND year, sites will include city of plattsburgh, literacy volunteers, cornell cooperative extension (clinton and franklin county), adirondack P-tech, behavioral health services north, town of plattsburgh, and united way of the adirondack region INC.