Join Corps for a Change
When you join Corps for a Change as an AmeriCorps member, you’ll support high school students in accessing critical mental health resources while supporting a path toward academic success. Meet with students weekly to help them boost school engagement, wellbeing, and community connections. As a partner in the national Youth Mental Health Corps, we engage members 18-24 as caring adults in schools and provide a behavioral health credential (tuition and training included) to boost your employment or credits toward an associate or bachelor’s degree, while earning $2,652 a month. Applications for the 2026-2027 school year will open in the spring of 2026.
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Josiah Sanchez served with Colorado Youth for a Change and the Youth Mental Health Corps during the 2024–25 school year at Lake Middle School near Denver, providing one-on-one support to students. He’s one of 300+ Youth Mental Health Corps members who helped support nearly 10,000 young people across four states in the program’s first year. Inspired by Josiah’s impact? Join Corps for a Change and the Youth Mental Health Corps today!
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Colorado Youth for a Change will not discriminate for or against any service member or applicant on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, familial status, disability, sexual orientation, or age. Reasonable accommodation provided upon request.