TCAC Connect Ability

Tennessee's Community Assistance Corporation (TCAC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to building stronger communities by working together. TCAC helps other non-profit organizations, service based agencies and public housing authorities to meet the needs of thousands of very low-income Tennessee residents that live in poverty.

TCAC AmeriCorps VISTA project Connect Ability accepts requests for concept papers from agencies that serve people with developmental, intellectual and physical disabilities. The priority focus areas for the Connect Ability VISTA project are health/nutrition, job preparedness, school to work. Our mission is to increase employability, prevent homelessness and promote the reintergration of disabled Veterans and people with disabilities.

TCAC AmeriCorps State program Community Cares serves people that are frail, challenged and disabled with home and health service to improve their quailty of life and allow them to remain living independently in their own homes.

To apply to Connect Ability or Community Cares, please contact Evonne Surber-Green, AmeriCorps Director at tcaccommcares@bellsouth.net 423.586.7636 x 14. For an AmeriCorps application please visit our website at www.tcac1.org and return by mail to TCAC c/o Evonne S. Green, Po Box 485, Morristown TN 37815-0485.

Connect Ability and Community Cares may serve at any location in Tennessee. Applicants chosen for positions recieve a modest bi-weekly living allowance, health insurance, educational award and childcare if applicable. Visit our national website to learn more about AmeriCorps at www.americorps.gov