Posted in Salida Citizen - http://salidacitizen.com/2013/03/salazar/ Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture, John Salazar, will visit with the Southwest Conservation Corps (SCC) on Friday, March 8, as part of Serve Colorado’s “Honorary Member for a Day” program to learn about impact of AmeriCorps in Colorado communities. The Commissioner’s visit is part of AmeriCorps Week, a nation-wide event, that [...]

The Southwest Conservation Corps is gearing up to celebrate AmeriCorps week, the accomplishments of SCC AmeriCorps alums, the projects that current members are engaged in and the nationwide impact of all AmeriCorps programs.  Look for additional information, highlights and stories from the field next week and please send us your story of how AmeriCorps made [...]

$50,000 Grant Hires Young People to Fight Invasive Plants, Protect State’s Water Resources  February 26, 2013, Denver, Colo. – The Colorado Youth Corps Association (CYCA) and the Colorado Water Conservation Board, a division of the Department of Natural Resources, announce they are funding invasive plant species mitigation projects throughout Colorado in an effort to preserve [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, February 15, 2013 Senators Launch Effort to Employ Youth Restoring Public Lands WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich today reintroduced legislation to expand job training and educational opportunities for youth, while helping repair and restore the country’s public lands. The Public Lands Service Corps Act of 2013 improves [...]

SCC Sonoran Desert has a new home at 1443 W Prince Road, Suite 8 in Tucson!

The Corps Center of Excellence (CCE) awarded SCC “provisional accreditation” today at a meeting of its Advisory Committee.  SCC is one of the first four programs in America to receive provisional accreditation.  The CCE is now working to develop a “full accreditation” process and SCC will apply to go through that process as soon as [...]

SCC Staff  ad many others nationwide have been hard at work the past year helping to get the idea of the 21st Century Service and Conservation Corps established, check out the press release below for details or visit the DOI website HERE!   Federal Agencies Announce National Council to Build 21st Century Conservation Corps Expanding Corps [...]

We have spent two weeks at the Tonto National Monument, which is armed by the National Park Service and is the site of cliff dwellings inhabited almost 800 years ago by Salado Indians.  Two of the dwellings are accessible to park visitors.  As SCC Crew Members, our group was given a tour of the forty-room [...]

The Los Valles Region recently tallied up their accomplishments and reflected upon the fall, here is what staff had to report! The Los Valles Region wrapped up the fall season last month with the graduation of five camping crews on October 24th.  In total, the Los Valles region engaged over 140 corpsmembers and leaders who [...]

The Acoma Hiking Club is a program under the Southwest Conservation Corps’ Acoma Ancestral Lands Office, funded by the National Park Ser-vice. The program will promote conservation and environmental awareness, healthy living and the Acoma language and culture by reconnecting the youth of Acoma with the outdoors, particularly with their ancestral lands of Acoma Pueblo, [...]