Data Collection & Management
All AmeriCorps programs must include at least one of these (which includes an output paired with outcome) that corresponds to the proposed primary intervention.
What are performance measures?
The document a site supervisor could use to find their responsibilities with regard to member recruitment.
What is the Host Site Agreement (HSA)?
Action you should take if your member's time sheet shows a pattern of the same hours served every day, day after day.
What is be more attentive to the member's comings and going, question the member about the hours served and document service hours yourself?
Action taken to ensure the candidate is able to be enrolled as quickly as possible in the AmeriCorps program.
What is communicate at least 2 weeks in advance of the anticipated start date with the program staff?
*Share the candidate's name (as it appears on their government-issued ID) and assist with the background check as requested by the program.
What do you call someone who is enrolled in the AmeriCorps program?
The schedule for data collection can be located in this document.
What is the Host Site Agreement (HSA)?
4 terms
What is the term limit for AmeriCorps State and National?
Contains information about when timesheets need to be approved.
What is the Host Site Agreement (HSA)?
NSOPW, State, and FBI checks
What are the 3 components of the NSCHC?
AmeriCorps, the agency
What is the federal agency overseeing AmeriCorps (formerly called CNCS)?
Site supervisors receive training on their role in grant performance measures and data collection.
What is the site supervisor orientation?
This can be used to repay qualified student loans and to pay current educational expenses at eligible institutions of higher education and training programs.
What is the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award?
Hours that exceed 12 hours/day and 120 hours within a 2-week period
What are considered to be excessive hours serviced by members?
The program must complete and adjudicate at least one day prior to the first day of service.
When must all components of the NSCHC be completed?
AmeriCorps State and National, AmeriCorps VISTA, NCCC, AmeriCorps Seniors
What are the branches of national service that fall under AmeriCorps, the agency?
Issues with data, like missing data from service sites or misplaced decimal points, that's been collected by members.
What is identifying issues with data validity?
Member experience
What is the total of member support and the time the member spends at your site, plus the opportunities provided to the member learn from the staff at the site, and the member's ability to grown personally and professionally while serving?
Certification of Time sheets under federal law (Section 1001 of Title 18, USC)
What the action is by approving the time sheet?
*Site supervisors are taking this action, which can be punishable by federal law if the approval is willfully certifying false time.
This document contains the dates in which the AmeriCorps program will enroll members for the program year.
What is the AmeriCorps program's approved enrollment plan?
Service, enroll, living allowance, member
What are the AmeriCorps terms that should be used in a position description instead of work, hire, wage and employee, staff or intern?
Validity, completeness, consistency, accuracy, and verifiability
What are 5 aspects of quality data collection and management?
Determines whether a slot can be refilled after a member exits early.
What are the number of hours a member served prior to exit and whether the member was exited with an education award?
The office (either budget or investigators) that most often audit timesheets and other AmeriCorps program records/costs.
What is the Office of Inspector General (OIG)?
NSCHC acronym
What is the National Service Criminal History Check?
To improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering.
What is the AmeriCorps agency's mission?