1 Launching Your VISTA Service Audio by phone: 866-609-4997 You will need an Oath of Service form for this webinar. Download and print the form from the Handouts panel, but please do not fill it out yet. We’ll begin soon. While you’re waiting, please share your answer in the chat panel on the right: Why did you join VISTA? Dial: 866-609-4997 Connecting to Audio • Call in via phone (number and passcode listed on each slide) • Stream audio through computer • Audio Setup Wizard Dial: 866-609-4997 Other Features • View captioning in the Live Captioning panel • Download materials for this session from the Handouts Panel
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Launching Your VISTA ServiceAudio by phone: 866-609-4997
You will need anOath of Service form for this webinar. Download and print the form from the Handouts panel, but please do not fill it out yet.
We’ll begin soon. While you’re waiting, please share your answer in the chat panel on the right:
Why did you join VISTA?
Dial: 866-609-4997Connecting to Audio
• Call in via phone (number and passcode listed on each slide)
• Stream audio through computer• Audio Setup Wizard
Dial: 866-609-4997Other Features
• View captioning in the Live Captioning panel
• Download materials for this session from the Handouts Panel
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Dial: 866-609-4997Tips for Participating
• Share comments and ideas in the Chat Panel
• Ask questions in the Q&A Panel
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Launching Your VISTA ServiceDial: 866-609-4997
Dial: 866-609-4997Today’s Speakers
Chris HawkesAmeriCorps VISTATraining Specialist
Andy KingAmeriCorps VISTATraining Specialist
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Dial: 866-609-4997Where Are You Serving?
Dial: 866-609-4997Where Are You Serving?
Dial: 866-609-4997
In this webinar, we will:• Describe VISTA’s mission and the program• Review a few of VISTA’s recent accomplishments• Identify support persons and resources• Highlight action items needing your attention• Administer the Oath of Service
Session Objectives
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Dial: 866-609-4997Welcome to VISTA!
Dial: 866-609-4997Volunteers in Service to America
“…you will be opening up new vistas of hope for the poor…”
Dial: 866-609-4997AmeriCorps VISTA & CNCS
A family of national service programs
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Dial: 866-609-4997VISTA’s Mission
Dial: 866-609-4997
Strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty through the mobilization of volunteers and resources
VISTA’s Mission
Dial: 866-609-4997VISTA’s Mission
Strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty through the mobilization of volunteers and resources
• Receive fingerprint cards from your supervisor today
• Your responsibility
• $25 fingerprinting subsidy
• Get fingerprinted ASAP
• Submission Deadline:
• Wednesday, April 17th
Dial: 866-609-4997VISTAs and Criminal History
• Criminal History Questionnaire: If you failed to disclose any conviction, send it in as instructed.
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Dial: 866-609-4997Show Your VISTA Pride
• Add the VISTA logo to your business cards and email signature
• Decorate your space with VISTA gear• Share your VISTA photos and stories
on social media• Order your VISTA gear once you
receive ordering instructions
Dial: 866-609-4997Where to Get Support
Dial: 866-609-4997What’s Ahead
Early-Service Coursework
• Make the Most of Your OSOT• The Minute Intro• Learn About Theory of Change• How Poverty is Measured in the U.S.• VAD Worksheet• Creating a Community Profile• 13 Lessons About Poverty
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Dial: 866-609-4997What’s Ahead
You Can’t Spell VISTA without…
I S T
In-Service Training (IST)
• Geographically-based invitations• Designed for first 2-5 months of VISTA
service• Core Modules:
• Capacity Building• Navigating the Member-Supervisor
Relationship• Empowering the Community• Using Storytelling in Marketing & Outreach
Dial: 866-609-4997Action Items - Benefits
• Is your Direct Deposit info correct?
• Did you select the right End-of-Service Benefit?
• Enroll in a Healthcare Benefit• enrollment instructions by email
from IMG in ~10 days
Dial: 866-609-4997Action Items - Entry
• Set up a recurring meeting with your supervisor
• Complete the Early-Service Coursework
• Get fingerprinted
• Order your VISTA gear
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Oath of Service
Dial: 866-609-4997Oath of Service
Dial: 866-609-4997
<<your full name>><<the organization where you serve>>
Oath of Service
<<city, state where you serve>>03/18/2019
Chris Hawkes
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Dial: 866-609-4997Oath of Service
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
1. First day of service is today2. Enter Chris Hawkes as the CNCS Official3. You (VISTA) sign by “AmeriCorps VISTA Member Signature”4. Have supervisor or other witness sign “Witness” section5. Email the Oath to [email protected] – by the end of the day• Subject line: OATH - Your Name – 03/18/2019
Remember - Oath of Service
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Dial: 866-609-4997Closing
“On your idealism and on your success rests much of our hope for the final elimination of poverty in our American life.”- Lyndon Johnson, December 12, 1964
