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Partner Agency: Hallie Q Brown Community Center
Main Office: 270 N Kent St, St Paul, MN 55102
Website: hallieqbrown.org
Site Supervisor: Benny Roberts 

Hallie Q. Brown Community Center is a historic social service hub in the Rondo legacy community in St. Paul that provides holistic lifespan support and legacy cultivation.  Since 1929, we exist to give life to our communities: to add quality to our lives, extend quantity to our years, to enrich the minds of our youth, and to be the central resource and gathering place for community and their stories.   In practice, this takes form in a diverse array of programming provided throughout the life continuum.

Hallie Q. Brown Community Center provides accessible programming that aims to meet the needs of the community. We offer comprehensive programs, services, and events across lifespan (children’s education, youth development, adult services, senior services, health resources, basic need support, community gatherings, and community archival services) ensuring that every member of our community has access to what they need to live rich lives. 

As the Lighthouse of the Community and symbol of resilience, we are committed to expanding our services and being the administrator of this facility to enhance community gathering, community health and longevity, as well as culturally rich expressions and engagements. Through our initiatives: we stay tethered to our past, actively engaged and serve our present, and work to inspire our future and extend our future. We do that through cultivating a space that centers Black people and remembers their experiences, serves all people with love and dignity, and where the whole community is equipped to thrive.

Hallie has been a host-site this year for the Partners In Prevention free community health clinics in partnership with Metro State University and Hue-Man Partnership, we administer voting on-site registration through Parks and Rec, Free tax clinics, community sponsored events, Aging adult seminars and events, while daily offering Basic Needs Support. Hallie Q. Brown also offers a community archive, and we directly served over 20,000 people last year while distributing over 400,000 pounds of food and more than a ton of clothes to our neighbors.

 

Position Description

This CTEP AmeriCorps position would directly benefit the patrons that utilize the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center. As our aging adult population continues to regroup and convene at Hallie, we want to increase our service offerings to combat social isolation, connection, and improve longevity. We are working to make our services more robust as our center is a sacred place in the community where people feel safe to receive services and be in community.  We are now developing into a blood pressure check hub, adding the PIP clinic, and more programs will be central the CTEP staff’s duties.

 

Role

 

The CTEP staff would be in a role to support Aging Adult Services which includes the archives at Hallie Q. Brown Community Center and where all the programming is based. This is a year round offering that works with the Director of Programs and our aging adult groups to plan activities, connect resources, teach new skills, and support events that bring community, share history, and connect intergenerationally.

 

 

Specific Responsibilities

“This position brings technology and employment services to many people who traditionally have barriers to accessing these resources among others. There is one CTEP position at this location. This member will serve in the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center Career Center, providing 1:1 direct service and workshop facilitation to support participants with technology skills and access, employability, and job search, and community resource connection”

Specific duties will include:

  • Provide a friendly and welcoming learning environment for participants on site
  • Develop one-to-one relationships with participants and increase participation through outreach
  • Provide group and one-to-one technology-based services to include digital literacy, employment, education, access to benefits, and navigating online resources 
  • Update workshop curriculum as needed to meet programming needs
  • Collaborate with program staff to coordinate and service residents/participants with diverse needs; determine participant needs through intake and assessments, utilize case management best practices to track residents/participants, program goals and outcomes
  • Attend regular team meetings, trainings, and collaborate with various teams and departments to integrate services and connect residents/participants to services and programs
  • Plan and facilitate trainings related to leadership development, digital literacy, and employment services
  • Network and collaborate with community agencies to connect participants to resources, services and programs
  • Recruit resident and community volunteers to work with programs
  • Train and supervise community volunteers for on-site computer labs”

 

Site Environment:

Hallie Q. Brown Community Center believes our diversity makes us uniquely qualified to bring the bold new perspectives needed to shape brilliant ideas. A leader in providing essential services to the whole community and through a rich historically black lens makes Hallie Q. Brown Community Center a special experience. True to our reputation and legacy, we create and sustain a more inclusive work environment that notices and supports our neighbors who are historically and chronically on the margins. 

 

Preferred schedule

9-5p Monday through Friday with some nights and some weekends

We can be flexible and accommodating to find the right balance for CTEP staff and their needs and goals as well.

 

 

How to Apply
Go to my.americorps.gov to create an application. Select Search Listings in the left
hand column, then scroll down to Advanced Search. Enter the following information in
● AmeriCorps Program Type: select “State and National”
● Service Term: select “Full-Time”
● Where to Serve: select “Minnesota”
● Service Areas: select “Community and Economic Development”
Look for CTEP. For questions, contact Tess Hackbarth at hackbarth@spnn.org.
CTEP, HQB and Serve Minnesota comply with federal and state disability laws and
make reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities. If
reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview
process, please contact Allison Williams, CTEP Program Director at williams@spnn.org
AmeriCorps prohibits all forms of discrimination and harassment based on the protected
categories of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability
(mental or physical), political affiliation, marital or parental status, pregnancy, reprisal,
genetic information (including family medical history), or military service.