Beacon Youth Transition Systems VISTA

Beacon Youth Transition Systems VISTA

Beacon Center Inc. 2.0 provides supportive housing and long-term assistance to young people experiencing homelessness, youth aging out of foster care, and young parents. Beacon helps young people pursue stability through housing, education, employment, financial development, healthcare access, transportation, and lasting community connections. Beacon’s Ameri Corps VISTA project will strengthen the organizational infrastructure behind these services. The VISTA will assess Beacon’s existing youth-transition and case-management framework and develop standardized tools, curricula, procedures, referral systems, training resources, and evaluation methods that staff and interns can continue using after the service term.

The VISTA will create an independent-living curriculum addressing housing, employment, education, budgeting, banking, savings, credit, transportation, healthcare, benefits, and other adult responsibilities. The member will also develop facilitator guides, participant materials, staff and intern training resources, transition-planning tools, referral directories, data-tracking systems, and sustainability procedures. Limited testing may be conducted to evaluate and improve newly developed tools. The VISTA will not maintain a caseload, provide ongoing instruction to youth, make clinical or placement decisions, or replace Beacon staff and interns responsible for direct services.

Assess Beacon’s current youth-transition and case-management framework and identify service gaps, inconsistent practices, and opportunities for improvement. Develop standardized transition-planning tools, an independent-living curriculum, facilitator guides, participant materials, referral resources, and staff and intern training materials. Create procedures for documenting referrals, tracking youth progress, evaluating outcomes, and escalating unresolved needs to authorized staff. Design data-collection tools and measures for housing, education, employment, financial stability, healthcare access, and successful transitions.

Conduct limited testing of newly developed resources, gather feedback, revise materials, train designated staff and interns to maintain the systems, and prepare a sustainability guide. The VISTA will not maintain a caseload or serve as an ongoing instructor or case manager.

• Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend
• Education award upon successful completion of service
• Health Coverage*
• Living Allowance
• Training

• For details about Ameri Corps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit  .

None

• Children/Youth
• Homelessness
• Public Safety

• Counseling
• Business/Entrepreneur
• Communications
• Community Organization
• Leadership
• Public Speaking
• Recruitment
• Writing/Editing
• Non-Profit Management
• Social Services

Ameri Corps VISTA

11/16/2026 - 11/15/2027

Full Time

High school diploma/GED

Minimum: 18 Maximum:
None

TEXAS Dallas/Ft. Worth , Houston/Galveston

English

From 10/09/2026 To 10/24/2026

Elicha Edwards

405 E Overton Rd

Dallas TX 75216

case manager

beaconcentertx.org