VISTA* Portland Youth Services VISTA

Goodwill VISTA Portland Housing Youth Services VISTA

Portland Housing Authority (PHA) provides and expands affordable housing and services that improve quality of life, build community, enhance safety, and promote personal success for the people served and the neighborhoods in which they reside. The Study Centers are community-based learning spaces that engage students of all ages and levels. The Study Centers try to lessen the barriers students face through meeting basic physical needs, providing homework assistance, mentoring youth, and approaching learning through artistic and engaging activities.

As accessible third spaces for youth with no attendance requirement or standardized testing, the Centers focus on student needs and interests to ensure that they feel safe, heard, and valued while also pushed to grow, learn, and explore. Drop-in programming in the centers follows the public school calendar. During school vacations and summer, the centers focus on fun learning activities, providing lunches for children, and teen programming for skills development through project-based learning internships.

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The VISTA will serve to rebuild our volunteer systems, increase our program visibility, and build partnerships to meet the needs of our at‑risk youth. The VISTA will support staff to increase educational outcomes, social‑emotional well‑being, job readiness, and protective factors for underserved youth in subsidized housing. Program capacity will be built through accessible curricula, establishing new volunteer sources, strengthening volunteer management practices, and increasing program partnerships.

The VISTA will seek grants and funding to increase program resources. Additionally, the VISTA will support the city‑wide collaborative of youth‑serving organizations to reduce duplicative efforts, build consistent standards for program efficacy and data collection, share resources for cross‑organization training, integrate with the public school 5‑year plan, and reduce barriers to out‑of‑school‑time program participation.

• Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend
• Stipend
• Relocation Allowance
• Living Allowance
• Health Coverage*
• Training
• Childcare assistance if eligible

• Car recommended
• Permits attendance at school during off hours
• Permits working at another job during off hours

• Community Outreach
• Hunger
• Children/Youth
• Education
• Health
• Community and Economic Development
• Housing
• Environment

• Youth Development
• Team Work
• Fund raising/Grant Writing
• Leadership
• Social Services
• Recruitment
• Computers/Technology
• Communications
• Writing/Editing
• General Skills
• Community Organization

06/01/2026-05/31/2027

Full Time

Minimum: 18 Maximum:
None

MAINE

From 03/11/2026 To 12/31/2026

Sol Carpenter

Goodwill NNE Ameri Corps Portland ME