JUMPSTART Is...

...A Job that MAKES A DIFFERENCE
Jumpstart’s mission is to engage students in service to work, where they can assist children as they enter school in preparing to succeed. Jackson State University work study students and volunteers work several hours a week with low-income, four- and five-year-olds in Head Start and Early Childhood Centers. They assist students in working to develop early language, literacy, social, and initiative skills and aiming for each child to take advantage of his or her education. All Jumpstart members are AmeriCorps Volunteers and receive an education award and are compensated for their year of service.

...An Opportunity to BECOME A LEADER
As a Jumpstart worker, you are one-on-one with the children at the centers, Jumpstart Jackson strives to forge connections between the program, the families and the community. Our community initiatives include: service partnerships with the Jackson Public School System and the Hinds County Human Resource Agency, University book drives, Open Mic Freestyle Competition, Jumpstart for a Day Learning Fair, and Jumpstart “Reading Bus”. Many of our activities are student initiated. Jumpstart alumni have gone on to receive prestigious teaching fellowships and to become site managers of their own Jumpstart programs.

...For YOU
We’d love to have you join our team! Fill out an application online at www.jstart.org, and we’ll contact you about interviewing to become a Jumpstart corps Member. Also, feel free to stop by or call the Jumpstart office (Student Life Building, Room 205/ (601) 979-4156) for more information about the program, contact Ernest Jackson, coordinator.