Our House e-newsletter February & March 2012 | Page 17

AmeriCorps at Our House: pages 8 to 21

Photo: Janet Brown, now Lead Teacher in Little Learners, got her start with Our
House as a member of the Delta Service Corps in the 1990s.

as VISTA is intended to provide only a temporary boost and not
to provide long-term staffing. Delta Service Corps provided some
of Our House’s most successful Learning Center graduates with
an opportunity to give back. Janet Brown, one of Our House’s
most senior staff members, got her start as a student in the
Learning Center and then served as a Delta Service Corps
member before joining the staff of the Our House child care.
In 1994, when President Bill Clinton started the AmeriCorps
program, Delta Service Corps and VISTA became subsets of
that larger national initiative.
Joe Ballard: VISTA returns to Our House
In 2006, a Clinton School of Public Service Master’s degree
candidate, Joe Ballard, came to Our House to do his final project.
Initially, he was going to develop an evaluation plan for the
Learning Center. His goal was to set up a system that would