Jacksonville, Fl \u2014 Dozens of future leaders celebrated a life accomplishment, as City Year Jacksonville honored its 2025-2026 Student Success Coaches on Tuesday at the Jessie Ball duPont Center. <\/p>\n
City Year Jacksonville provides a pathway for young adults to find meaningful work, gain real-world leadership experience and develop career-ready skills. <\/p>\n
Tyasia Saunders is one of those AmeriCorps members. She plans to be a dentist, and is already a mentor to countless young people. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey see me as someone they\u2019re comfortable with, see me as someone they can come to and count on no matter when, no matter what happens.\u201d, Saunders said. <\/p>\n
City Year Executive Director Dawn Emerick says they\u2019re developing civic leaders for a better Jacksonville. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a big gap right now between the generation of Jacksonville and the young people. Folks are not getting involved in philanthropy. They\u2019re not doing civic engagement work. We have a real delta.\u201d, Emrick said. <\/p>\n
City Year AmeriCorps members currently serve in nine Duval schools, with plans to expand to 15 in the next six years. <\/p>\n
Westside Middle School Principal Dave Errico says Student Success Coaches mentor teachers, as well as ELA and Math classrooms. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe connections they really do make with the kids are unique. Kids go to them. They see themselves in them. The mentors. I think there\u2019s just that safe space that they create that\u2019s just another adult on campus that\u2019s not necessarily their teacher or their admin team members.\u201c, Errico said. <\/p>\n
Like all nonprofits, reaching their goals will require financial support and commitment from school leaders across Jacksonville. <\/p>\n
City Year Jacksonville is also recruiting for young adults ages 18-25 to apply for the 2026-2027 year<\/a>. <\/p>\n City Year was founded in 1988 as a national service program to unite young adults for a demanding year of full-time community service. It has grown to more than 2,000 members serving in 29 US cities, as well as in South Africa and the UK.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n [\u00a0Read more local news from WOKV<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville, Fl \u2014 Dozens of future leaders celebrated a life accomplishment, as City Year Jacksonville honored its 2025-2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[796,124075,124080,124074,124077,1040,794,124081,28,116,118,117,124082,795,349,124079,124078,124076,3021],"class_list":["post-294396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-796","tag-americorps","tag-city-year","tag-city-year-jacksonville","tag-dawn-emrick","tag-dcps","tag-duval","tag-duval-public-schools","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jessie-ball-dupont-center","tag-ne-florida","tag-northeast-florida","tag-student-success-coaches","tag-tyasia-saunders","tag-westside-middle-school","tag-wokv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}