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Montana Office of Community Service
The Montana Office of Community Service was created by the 1993 Legislature at the Request of the Governor (MCA 90-14-101ff), in an effort to support community-based volunteer programs focused on addressing critical community needs. The vision of the Commission is to cultivate service as a lifelong "habit of the heart" for all citizens, and in particular, instill an ethic of community service in young Montanans.
Goals and Objectives for the 2009 Biennium
- Goal #1: Expand service opportunities for all Montanans.
- Enroll 500 National Service Members who will serve over 200,000 individuals in Montana Communities annually.
- Engage 10,000 community volunteers who will serve over 100,000 hours over the course of the biennium.
- The Living Legacy Organ Donor Program will increase enrollment of high school students by 100%.
- Increase by 100% the number of Montanan volunteers for the Citizen Corp to become prepared for emergency disaster response.
- Demonstrate 200 partnerships with community and faith based organizations.
- Goal #2: Provide training and technical assistance for community and national service programs in Montana to ensure they have the capacity to support volunteers.
- Assist over 40 community agencies and more than 500 individuals in achieving skills to be proficient in sustaining a viable organization annually.
- OCS delivers CBI, an on-going skill based training conference.
- Increase awareness of volunteer opportunities at the Governor’s Conference by networking with statewide non-profit agencies. In addition the conference will include training opportunities for volunteer sustainability.
- Assist over 40 community agencies and more than 500 individuals in achieving skills to be proficient in sustaining a viable organization annually.
- Goal #3: Maintain a solid portfolio of AmeriCorps programs to meet the needs of Montana communities and provide participants with financial resources to pursue higher education.
- Implement 6 AmeriCorps Programs to meet critical local needs:
- Engage adults 30,000 times in parent-child learning
- Mentor/tutor 8,000 students
- Build or restore 2,000 miles of trail
- Build or restore 100 miles of fence
- Plant 60,000 trees
- Restore or conserve 4,000 acres of habitat on public lands
- Construct or restore 24 affordable housing units
- Weatherize more than 2,500 Montana homes
- Involve more than 200 high school students in community service to aid in the prevention of drop out rates.
- Engage more than 20,000 Montanans to become new organ or tissue donors for the Living Legacy Program.
- Provide Educational Vouchers in excess of $1,600,000 to AmeriCorps participants
- Implement 6 AmeriCorps Programs to meet critical local needs:
Montana Office of Community Service Accomplishments
Montana Office of Community Service Website: http://www.mt.gov/mcsn/
