AmeriCorps Works Here!

Here at Mile High Youth Corps, we live and breathe “corps culture”.  For those who never served with an AmeriCorps program, it can be a bit overwhelming to join our team and start learning the AmeriCorps vocabulary.  And, sometimes those of us who are AmeriCorps Alums forget that “ed award”, “stipend”, “N triple C”, and [...]

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Mile High Youth Corps, this is Therese/Karol…

“Hi, how can I help you?” is usually the first thing you hear when you walk through the door of one of the Mile High Youth Corps locations. Our lovely Corpsmembrs Therese Inman and Karol Quagliato are the wonderful faces you first see when entering our building to interview, inquire about jobs or go to [...]

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National Youth Service Day

Did you see all those green shirts around Denver on Friday? MHYC joined the millions of other youth across the country, that participated in service projects in honor of National Youth Service Day! The MHYC Corpsmembers took a break from changing toilets and energy audits and picked up some rakes and shovels to help some [...]

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Meet Kara Silbernagel

If you haven’t made your way to EMCC yet, let me introduce you to Kara Silbernagel! She is part of the group of staff at Mile High Youth Corps that works at our East Colfax location. Below you will find her answers to some questions about her favorite things to do in Colorado, MHYC and [...]

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A Look Back on Orientation

My first two weeks of AmeriCorps have been awesome, and I can’t believe I’m already reaching the tail end of my third week. When they say time flies, they mean it. In fact, I find this to be especially true at Mile High Youth Corps (MHYC), as the first two weeks of orientation were full [...]

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What now?

Well, we are rounding up this term at Mile High Youth Corps. It is scary and exciting at the same time. Scary because I still do not have a job to go directly in to, and exciting because I know that now I can leave here better prepared for work and life in the future. [...]

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End of Energy Term

Sitting in the reception room at Canosa I remember waiting for my first interview to be a member on the energy crew. I waited anxiously, picking off nail polish and flipping through old National Geographics that someday would be turned into collages representing “who I am” or “leadership looks like this”. In other words, I [...]

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Meet an MHYC Field Coordinator

From the South… This season’s Field Coordinator was Ryan Shuck. Before leaving for the season he sat down to share with us a bit about what led him to MHYC and his experience. Ryan grew up in Colorado’s mountains and used the land’s resources. He recognized the necessity to protect these resources for future generations. [...]

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Poets of YouthBuild

What’s up? The name’s Hector, but people call me Mr. Garza and I am in this wonderful outreach group for people 18-24 called the Mile High Youth Corps’ YouthBuild. Now there are two things I would say that stick out about this program, and that is the people and the poetic side of these people, [...]

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