21st Century Conservation Service Corps Opportunities

The 21st Century Conservation Service Corps (21CSC) is a collaborative effort to put America’s youth and veterans to work protecting, restoring and enhancing America’s great outdoors. Through the 21 CSC, young people and veterans will accomplish meaningful work, and gain important personal and professional skills while building a lifelong connection to the outdoors.

The National Park Service partners with national service members to provide special skills training and offer a path into federal service. Individuals who meet specific requirements may be eligible for non-competitive appoinment to federal jobs upon successful completion of the program.

• Public Lands Corps (PLC): A work and education program that engages the Nation's conservation and service corps on public lands. Read Personnel Bulletin 21-09 for more information.
• Direct Hire Authority for Resource Assistant Internships (DHA-RAI): Rigorous internships in a career field necessary for the effective management of public lands and resources. Read Personnel Bulletin 21-08 for more information.
• AmeriCorps: AmeriCorps consists of three programs - Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), State & National, National Civilian Community Corps. Individuals who complete their service may be eligible for noncompetitive eligibility. Visit americorps.gov to learn about these programs and search for opportunities.

Below is a list of Corps and youth service organizations that entered into 5-year nation-wide agreements to work in collaboration with national parks and offices to provide development and job opportunities to engage youth and veterans.

For a listing of jobs and internships with other public land management agencies, visit Jobs at Corps.

You can also search for opportunities by checking the websites of the National Park Service Service Corps partner organizations listed below:

Organizations:	Locations Served:
Alexandria Seaport Foundation	Alexandria, Virginia Seaport/Potomac area
American Youthworks	Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee
American Conservation Experience	(Crews) Arizona, California, Utah, North Carolina, Tennessee; (Recent Graduate Internships) Nationwide
Appalachian State University	North Carolina
Appalachian Trail Conservancy	Areas along the Appalachian Trail
Borderlands Restoration Network	Arizona
Capacity Builders, Inc.	Northwest New Mexico, Southwest Colorado, Southeast Utah, and Northeast Arizona
California Local Conservation Corps Foundation	California
Chesapeake Bay Trust	Maryland and Virginia counties along the Chesapeake Bay
Child & Family Services of Northwestern Michigan, Inc.	Northwestern Michigan
Civic Works, Inc.	Maryland (Baltimore)
Colorado Youth Corps Association	Colorado
Community Services & Employment Training, Inc.	Nationwide
Concrete Preservation Institute	Nationwide
Conservation Legacy	Nationwide
Conservation Corps North Bay	Marin and Sonoma, California counties
The Corps Network	Nationwide
Earthcorps	Nationwide
Environment for the Americas	Nationwide
Farmworker Institute of Education and Leadership Development	California
Great Basin Institute	Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Washington
Greater Miami Service Corps	Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana
Greening Youth Foundation	Nationwide
Groundwork Hudson Valley	New York
Groundwork USA	Nationwide
Hamilton Partnership for Paterson	New Jersey
Hispanic Access Foundation	Nationwide
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities	Nationwide
HistoriCorps®	16 States (CO, WY, UT, ID, CA, AK, SD, TX, NM, MO, KY, WV, WI, MN, MI, NC, NH
Hope Program, Inc. (The)	New York
Indian River State College	Florida
KUPU	Hawaii, Pacific Island territories
Limitless Vistas, Inc.	States along the coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico
Los Angeles Conservation Corps	Greater Los Angeles area
Lomakatsi Restoration	Oregon
MobilizeGreen	Nationwide
Montana Conservation Corps	Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska
Montana State University	Montana
Mt. Adams Institute	Washington
Multiplier	California
National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE)	Nationwide
Northwest Youth Corps	Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Arizona
Rocky Mountain Conservancy	Colorado
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps	Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona
SEEDS	Michigan
SER Metro-Detroit, Jobs for Progress, Inc.	Detroit
Southern Utah University	Utah
The Student Conservation Association	Nationwide
Utah State University	Utah
Wabanaki Youth in Science	Maine
Washington State Dept of Ecology	Nationwide
Watershed Committee of the Ozarks	Springfield, Missouri
Wisconsin Conservation Corps	Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas
Year One Inc., dba Mile High Youth Corps	Colorado
Youth Development, Inc (YDI)	New Mexico

For other National Park Service opportunities visit jobs, internships, and volunteering.