Training: AmeriCorps Online Courses
Litmos training courses: https://americorpsonlinecourses.litmos.com/home/library
Program Specific for AmeriCorps State & National and general include:
- Fraud Awareness Training for AmeriCorps Grantees – March 2022
This course is designed to prepare grantees to more effectively mitigate the risks of fraud associated with AmeriCorps grants through better prevention, detection, and reporting measures. The course covers best practices in fraud prevention, emphasizing the importance of strong internal controls. Through several real-world examples, the course discusses indicators of the most common types of fraud associated with AmeriCorps grants as well as the consequences of committing grant fraud. - AmeriCorps Member Management
This course provides the cycle of AmeriCorps program development; includes details of two core grantee responsibilities (leading a member management plan and cultivating strong member experiences); details important record-keeping requirements (especially member file management). - AmeriCorps Allowable and Unallowable Activities
This course explains grantee responsibilities and consequences of failing to successfully monitor grant and member activities; contains six diverse practice scenarios to analyze. - Federal Financial Management (required for OYSI)
- Demonstrating Impact of Service
Describes ways in which CNCS and grantees collect and disseminate information that showcases national service; encourages grantees to build strong storytelling skills, collect photos, and compile clear and compelling performance data. - National Service Criminal History Checks (NSCHC)
o Annual required eCourse (completion certificate must be sent to The Corps Network)
o May 2022 – Cost-Based Disallowance – recording and presentation slides
o March 2022 Training – recording and presentation slides
o Vendors Training – Truescreen and Fieldprint - Sustainability Planning
Defines AmeriCorps expectations for sustainability planning; describes several challenges facing grantees (structure of national service funding/programming and nature of nonprofit work); outlines components of sustainability planning (play books, talent management, and infrastructure); and includes examples of planned and unplanned transitions (retirement of founding program director, change in governor, natural disaster). - AmeriCorps Member Position Descriptions (up to date guidance in Section V of TCN’s Manual)
- Disability Inclusion
- Disaster Services