Twenty Nine MTCC VISTA Summer Associates were just sworn in, this is the Missoula crew.

Monday, June 1st, 2015, Montana Campus Compact  welcomed an unprecedented 29 AmeriCorps
VISTA Summer Associates to our campuses and communities across Montana! These Summer Associates will serve for 10 weeks in communities across the state, providing hands-on learning opportunities and educational programming for youth.  Each project is associated with one of four focus areas: K-12 success, college access, summer learning loss or summer food programming.

Some will be serving in tandem to strengthen current MTCC AmeriCorps VISTA projects like Jacquelyn Turmel serving homeless teens with Sparrow’s Nest of NW MT in Kalispell, Others represent exciting new partnerships for MTCC, like Summer Associate VISTAs Lisa Nguyen and Scott Omundson with Sunburst Enterprises whose Gardens from Garbage summer lunch program is helping food-insecure kids with nutritious food.

These Summer Associates were sworn into service via webinar by Montana’s state CNCS director, Jackie Girard after a Pre-Service Training session to help them understand the requirements, conditions and personal & professional benefits of their VISTA Summer Associate service.

Montana Summer Associates serving across the state are: Jessica Eiskant and Stephanie Kolb, with Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming (GSMW) in Billings; Allie Helterbran, Tara Gilsrud and Alicia Leitch with Human Resource Development Council IX in Bozeman; Amber Flores with Bitterroot Ecological Awareness Resources in Hamilton; Jaycey Ellis with Gallatin Valley YMCA in Bozeman; Lisa Davis with Children’s Museum of Bozeman.  VISTAs serving in Missoula include: please list missoula VISTAs