Tribal AmeriCorps

Coming up this week on In Wisconsin is a story suggested to me by a friend. His name is Bob Kovar. He knew about it because he's been instrumental in making it happen. The story is about the new Tribal AmeriCorps program. For the first time the tribes in the state applied for and got an AmeriCorps grant to fund 13 workers on reservations. There have been AmeriCorps workers in Indian Country before but the idea this time was to have members of the community, who know the issues first hand, get to work providing solutions. Our story was shot in the Lac du Flambeau Public School where 3 AmeriCorps members are working to prevent substance abuse. One of the AmeriCorps members has also found a calling in life. She plans to work with youth after her year of service is complete.