An estimated 450 rsvp volunteers will serve

Of this number, 198 rsvp volunteers will be placed in outcome based assignments. Some of their activities will include: tutoring students to improve academic performance or academic engagement; providing nutrition support to homebound individuals so that they can continue to live independently; providing nutrition support for individuals allowing them to be more food secure; educating seniors on health related issues through our players troupe and repairing housing units so that individuals can be transitioned into safe, healthy affordable housing. The primary focus area of this project is healthy futures. At the end of the three-year grant, we will be to serve 2000 clients through our healthy futures initiative. Our goals are that: 140 homebound clients will be able to continue to live independently due to the nutrition support they are receiving; 60 clients will be able to state they are more food secure; 45 students will have improved academic skills, 35 students will have improved academic engagement behaviors; 100 older adults in the community will have increased their health knowledge and 5 individuals will have been transitioned into safe, affordable housing. Our rsvp program will provide services in several key cncs funding priorities. Rsvp volunteers will serve in outcome based volunteer assignments through the evidence based aarp foundation experience corps program. In addition, rsvp volunteers will serve in outcome based assignments in the priority areas of: aging in place- independent living and education- intergenerational programming. Volunteers will also be serving through the community priorities area in: economic opportunity- workforce development and disaster services. The cncs federal investment of $197,098 will be supplemented by $129,050 of non-federal resources.