The Coal Heritage Highway Authority (CHHA) is hosting information
sessions
in regards to our new AmeriCorps Education Award Program. Interested
persons
are encouraged to attend one of the following public workshops:

Monday, August 10th
1-3 pm
Raleigh County Public Library
Assembly Room
221 N Kanawha Street
Beckley, WV 25801
304-255-0511

Tuedsday, August 11th
1-3 pm
Chief Logan State Park
Museum in the Park
Logan, WV
304-792-7229


 The CHHA AmeriCorps Education Award Program provides eligible
community
organizations with the opportunity to receive post-secondary students
as
interns.  The interns will serve in the following capacity:
implementing
special events, meeting direct tourism enhancement needs, stewardship
of
historic and cultural resources, and/or volunteer management and
recruitment. The AmeriCorps Education Award members will also receive
training about the value of national service and heritage tourism.



In return for the students’ services, AmeriCorps members receive an
education award that can be used to pay for qualified student loans or
future educational expenses at qualified institutions of higher
learning
including trade schools. The amount of the education award is dependent
on
the length of the member’s service. CHHA AmeriCorps Interns will
receive an
Education Award of $2,362.50 or $1,250 for completing 900 hours or 450
hours
of service, respectively.



*The Coal Heritage Highway Authority* AmeriCorps Umbrella Project 
promotes
and enhances tourism and community and economic development
activities,
resource development, outreach and education, and historic preservation
and
interpretation. Coal Heritage AmeriCorps members strengthen
communities
along the Coal Heritage Trail, a national scenic byway passing through
Fayette, Raleigh, Wyoming, McDowell, and Mercer Counties and within
the
National Coal Heritage Area, a federally designated area of national
historic significance, encompassing 13 counties in southern West
Virginia.
Visit www.coalheritage.org.



AmeriCorps programs currently provide opportunities for 75,000
Americans to
give back in an intensive way to their communities and country each
year.
The newly signed Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act will increase
this
number to 250,000 in less than a decade.  AmeriCorps State and
National  members
serve with more than 2,900 national and local nonprofit and community
groups.



Shelley Hopple
Administrative Secretary 
West Virginia University
Division of Social Work
P O Box 6830
Morgantown WV 26506
Telephone 304- 293- 3501 x 3103
Fax 304- 293- 5936