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Where are our volunteers?
Cammie Coulter  
Partner Organization: Green Opportunities
Project goal: Provide additional personnel for student case management and support.

Green Opportunities connects youth and adults to sustained employment opportunities that support families and improve community and environmental health. They do this by offering a combination of technical training, life skills training, industry-recognized credentials, and personalized support services to unemployed and under-employed residents of Asheville and Buncombe County. The training and employment programs provided by Green Opportunities empower their members to overcome both personal and systemic barriers to employment. Cammie provides critical additional case management support by serving as a primary point of contact for additional student clientele as they move through training courses, basic support services, community connections, employment paperwork and other necessary steps required to escape the cycle of generational poverty that plagues many of Asheville’s low-wealth neighborhoods. 
Lauren Rye
Partner Organization: STRIVE Mentoring Program
Project goal: Create paths of access to break cycles of poverty via mentoring/tutoring with youth living in the Hillcrest community and recruit, train and manage student mentors/tutors from UNC Asheville.

The Hillcrest Community Enrichment Center provides hundreds of hours in educational and tutoring support to the children and young adults. The STIRVE [Success Through Relationship, Investment, Versatility and Empowerment] program is a partnership between UNC Asheville's Multicultural Student Affairs Office and the Hillcrest Enrichment Center. Cammie serves as the coordinator of the STRIVE program that recruits college-age young adults to serve as mentors at the Hillcrest Enrichment Center. This partnership involves twelve mentors in the daily programming efforts hosted by this community based and community run center. Additionally, mentors organize a variety of subjects such as music, arts, and career exploration via college campus visits and tours. Serving both as mentor and as the coordinator of college mentors, Lauren also works to create partnerships with additional public housing enrichment centers where the STRIVE program can be replicated. 
Arthur Parks Smithey  
Partner Organization: Homeward Bound -
[Welcome Home Project]
Project goal: Increase the capacity of the Welcome Home Project that ends the cycle of homelessness by moving individuals and families into permanent housing.
Homeward Bound is a “housing first” model organization that has moved over 1,750 men, women and children out of cars, camps and shelters and into permanent housing since 2006. This model, proven to be the most cost effective, sustainable and humane for those experiencing homelessness, provides individual case management once clients are moved into housing to ensure they are successful. This organization maintains a 89% retention rate once individuals are housed! Parks, serves the Welcome Home Project and moves formerly homeless individuals and families into permanent housing. He collects donations of furniture and other housing goods so that those moved into their homes can begin their new life with basic necessities. This volunteer position allows Homeward Bound case managers to focus more of their energy on supporting the long term needs of the clients and supports a sustainable program.
Willa Van Camp
Partner Organization: Asheville Poverty Initiative -
[12 Baskets Cafe']
Project goal: Serve as the volunteer coordinator at the 12 Baskets Cafe'.

Asheville Poverty Initiative works to end poverty by creating opportunities for mutual relationships across socioeconomic boundaries, thus deconstructing the divisive and misleading categories of the "haves" and "have nots . " One of the ways they work toward this goal is by hosting the 12 Baskets Café that serves food that would otherwise be thrown away. Upending the traditional model of service that relegates the “served” and “servers” into preordained roles, 12 Baskets invites all to serve and all to be served and to have meaningful conversations around the table. Willa works as the volunteer coordinator and organizes this volunteer-run, Monday-Friday program. She also supports other projects, such as the Poverty Scholars program that provides a platform for community members to learn about the realities of homelessness from those currently experiencing homelessness.
New Volunteer!
After hurricane Irma, the Miami YAV site needed to make a few changes and as a result, Asheville has gained a new volunteer! We are excited to welcome Savannah Fraser to our community and are excited for you to meet her too. Savannah will be working at AHOPE Day Center with our long-time partner, Homeward Bound. More information to come!

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