Winnebago AmeriCorps VISTA

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska's goal is to start providing knowledge, opportunities for our parents and children to realize their full potential, untapped abilities, an increased understanding of the Winnebago Tribe culture and heritage while addressing the skills and educational background to solve the poverty and educational issues facing Tribal members. The VISTA project will seek to increase student academic engagement, attendance and provide job training and skill development for job placement for parents/guardians and students. VISTA members will contribute to achieving the goals of the project by performing activities such as developing and implementing community and afterschool activities, job skill training, financial literacy programming and building leadership qualities. Tribal Code revision will also be an important grant activity based on the needs of the family and the community.