Corps members serve up to 32 hours in our partner organizations. Up to 4 hours a week is spent in personal and professional development as a team.
Johnson Service Corps mission is to develop young-adult anti-racist servant leaders through participation in a year of social justice engagement, intentional community living, servant leadership training, and spiritual formation.
Johnson Service Corps vision is to offer transformative opportunities for young adults to re-imagine vocational discernment and pursue a life-long journey of community engagement sustained by spiritual practice.
Johnson Service Corps helps young adults discern vocation and lifestyle that flow from each individual’s unique calling. Our philosophy rests on the following four pillars:
Service Activities
Center for Responsible Lending is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization dedicated to protecting homeownership and family wealth by working to eliminate abusive financial practices. We are an affiliate of Self-Help (SH), one of the largest community development financial institutions in the country.
Compass Center for Women and Families helps individuals and families prevent and end domestic violence and become self-sufficient. We provide domestic violence crisis services, career and financial education, assistance with legal resources, and adolescent
empowerment programs.
Durham Children’s Initiative DCI’s mission is to create a pipeline of high-quality services spanning from birth through college or career for children, youth, and families living in Durham, North Carolina. More than 65 partner organizations and thousands of community members actively contribute to DCI, making it one of the most comprehensive cradle-to-career ecosystems in the state. Through a combination of DCI initiatives and partner services, we work collaboratively at the local and systems levels to support children, youth, and families on their unique journeys toward success.
Pauli Murray Center engages a diversity of community members to lift up the vision and legacy of activist, scholar, feminist, poet, and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray in order to tackle enduring inequities and injustice. We envision communities that actively work toward fairness and justice across divisions such as race, class, sexual &
gender identity and spiritual practice that often divide us. We embrace the transformative power of collecting and telling our stories and our truths as a process that heals these divisions and promotes human rights.
SECU Family House is a safe, nurturing, affordable home for patients and their loved ones who travel great distances to UNC Hospitals for life-saving procedures and serious illnesses. We provide guests lodging, meals, supportive programs, transportation and a caring support network. We serve families from all 100 North Carolina counties and beyond, helping them rest, heal, and gather strength when they need it most.
Families Moving Forward helps families in the crisis of homelessness find their way home. They provide temporary housing, case management, skills education, and connection to community resources to help parents and children thrive in stable homes.
L’Arche North Carolina is an emerging community for adults with and without intellectual developmental disabilities. Their goal is to establish and open the first L’Arche home/community in North Carolina in 2022.
Code The Dream offers free intensive training in software development to people from diverse low-income backgrounds. In CTD Labs, our coders work with experienced mentors to hone those skills by building apps and technology platforms for a range of startups, nonprofits and government clients. The ultimate aim of Code the Dream is to create a unique win-win, where our coders gain real experience building apps that make the world a little better place, and then use that experience to launch new careers with enormous opportunity for themselves, their families, and their communities
Community Need Addressed
Service & Social Justice Work
Each corps member is matched with one of our partner organizations and works 32 hours/week. These local non-profit organizations and social service agencies address diverse social justice issues and provide needed services to members of our community. Although partner organizations may change from year to year, Johnson Service Corps always strives to place corps members with organizations that provide meaningful work with appropriate training and supervision.
Current and past partner organizations provide services in the areas of need including homelessness, substance use and addiction recovery, mental illness, health care, conflict mediation, job readiness, literacy, women’s issues, affordable housing, financial policy, food access and nutrition, immigration, senior citizens, and childhood readiness.
Position Outcomes
Our corps members finish a year of service with a broader understanding of social issues and a stronger sense of self. Our partner organizations that corps members are placed at will increase their capacity to address needs such as community and non-profit development. Together JSC and our partner organizations develop young-adult anti-racist servant leaders through participation in a year of social justice engagement, intentional community living, servant leadership training, and spiritual formation.
Benefits
Health coverage, Housing, Living allowance, Stipend, Training
Mission
The mission of Johnson Service Corps is to develop young-adult servant leaders through participation in a year of social justice engagement, intentional community living, servant leadership training, and spiritual formation.
Vision
The vision of Johnson Service Corps is to offer transformative opportunities for young adults to re-imagine vocational discernment and pursue a life-long journey of community engagement sustained by spiritual practice.
Philosophy
Johnson Service Corps helps young adults discern vocation and lifestyle that flow from each individual’s unique calling. Our philosophy rests on the following four pillars:
Servant Leadership: We embrace the values of communion, compassion, co-creation, collaboration, and character. As servant leaders, we discern our unique callings and live authentically in those callings. We benefit from the spiritual awareness that practicing these values brings to our lives and vocations. We resist the definition of success as accumulation of money and power and replace it with an understanding of abundance through shared resources and “power with” rather than “power over.”
Social Justice: We are called to work together with our neighbors, from the local to the global, to stand against injustice in social, cultural, economic, political, and institutional systems and instead create systems of equality.
Intentional Community Living: This model challenges us to re-imagine how our household relationships and practices are informed by and reflect our values. We become more aware of how to meet the needs of others and ourselves as we shift toward a community-minded paradigm that radically affects how we are present at home and in the world.
Spiritual Formation: Rooted in the contemplative and social justice practices of Christian tradition, Johnson Service Corps welcomes and embraces people of all spiritual expressions who seek to journey in discernment and in discovery of ways to live out call authentically.
Johnson Service Corps is a 501(c)3 independent non-profit organization, and an affiliate of Episcopal Service Corps, a national network of similar programs around the US.
Education Benefits
College Degree, GED/High School Diploma
Mental health first aid certification
Skills you will gain
Self awareness, communication, leadership, leading small groups, public speaking
Competencies You Will Develop
Communication
Demonstrate sensitivity and empathy, Lead group discussion, Listen to and consider others' viewpoints, Maintain open lines of communication with others, Turn taking
Creativity & Problem Solving
Able to identify and define the problem, Capable of generating possible solutions, Communicate the problem to appropriate personnel, Improvise, Provide relevant expertise, Select and implement well-considered solution
Teamwork
Derive consensus, Develop constructive working relationships and maintain them over time, Establish a high degree of trust and credibility with others, Interact professionally and respectfully with supervisors and co-workers, Stay positive and outcome oriented, Use appropriate strategies and solutions for dealing with conflicts and differences to maintain a smooth workflow
Decisions
Accepts responsibility, Anticipate the consequences of decisions, Identify and prioritize the key issues involved to facilitate the decision making process, Involve people appropriately in decisions that may impact them, Quickly respond with a back-up plan if a decision goes amiss
Tools
Carefully consider which tools or technological solutions are appropriate for a given job, Consistently choose the best tool or technological solution for the problem at hand, Operate tools and equipment in accordance with established operating procedures, safety standards, and ethical guidelines, Seek opportunities to improve knowledge of tools and technologies that may assist in streamlining work and improving productivity
Planning
Able to prioritize various competing tasks, Create environment of contribution, Create plan of action, schedule tasks so that work is completed on time, Demonstrate the effective allocation of time and resources efficiently, Drive decision making, Effectively delegate tasks, Facilitate group planning, Set goals
Service
Be pleasant, courteous, professional and respectful when dealing with internal and external customers or clients, Evaluate customer or client satisfaction, Honor the privilege of being able to work with and for those being served, Provide personalized, prompt, and efficient service to meet the requirements, requests and needs of customers, Recognize the importance of maintaining privacy and confidentiality of those being served, Understand and anticipate the needs of others, Understand the importance of one's role in the functioning of the organization, Understand the significance of maintaining a healthful and safe environment