Trade Community Service For Education or Debt Relief?

Danielle Martin, former CTC VISTA leader

After serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA member for over two years, I wonder: have any other government departments or agencies considered a “trade community service for education or debt relief” model for accomplishing the tasks it’s set up to do? Why or why not? If so, are there other models that exist? Where? How?

Also, has anyone else thought it odd that “community service” is either seen as an altruistic act or a punishment? What else might community service be?

About Morgan: This is a brief guest post from Morgan Sully, former VISTA Leader for the CTC VISTA Project. Morgan served as a CTC VISTA with the San Diego Community Technology Coalition, San Diego LGBT Center and the National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture (NAMAC). When not contributing ideas to CTC VISTA, Morgan can be found meming it up at his personal site, Memeshift.com.

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