{"id":210606,"date":"2015-09-17T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=210606"},"modified":"2015-09-17T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T20:00:06","slug":"americorps-assists-care-with-long-term-recovery-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/americorps-assists-care-with-long-term-recovery-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"AmeriCorps assists CARE with long-term recovery plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the AmeriCorps program are currently on island to assist the newly formed CNMI: CARE in its long-term recovery efforts on Saipan following Typhoon Soudelor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_210951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210951\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Americorps-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Americorps-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the CNMI: CARE meet with their subcommittees after their general meeting last Tuesday at the Office of the Governor\u2019s conference room. AmeriCorps and other government agencies also attended the meeting. (Frauleine S. Villanueva)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-210951\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-210951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the CNMI: CARE meet with their subcommittees after their general meeting last Tuesday at the Office of the Governor\u2019s conference room. AmeriCorps and other government agencies also attended the meeting. (Frauleine S. Villanueva)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A team of 10 AmeriCorps members from off-island recently arrived on island and took part in a CARE meeting last Tuesday at the Governor\u2019s Office. Some government departments also joined the meeting<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe members that have come are from Texas and Minnesota,\u201d AmeriCorps emergency response team program manager Megan Helton said. \u201c[Our mission is] to help to stand up some volunteer management and volunteer organizations for the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team will be on island for 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now we\u2019re capturing data and information and trying to compile some report so that as long-term recovery committee moves forward, they have some data to use to apply for grants for additional funding of the organizations,\u201d Helton said.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the information collected, over $1.038 million worth of goods and monetary donations were given directly to organizations in response to Typhoon Soudelor.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from AmeriCorps, the Department of Public Works and Department of Public Safety joined the CARE meeting.<\/p>\n<p>According to Matt Deleon Guerrero, chief of staff of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the government agencies are not necessarily members of CARE, which is composed of the non-government groups and organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The Lieutenant Governor\u2019s Office was recently tasked by Gov. Eloy S. Inos to be the primary agency in coordinating governmental support and assistance to CARE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is kind of an \u2018all-hands-on-deck\u2019 kind of thing and so we\u2019re trying to reach out,\u201d Deleon Guerrero said. \u201cWe\u2019re not necessarily members but we\u2019re assisting the process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the AmeriCorps program are currently on island to assist the newly formed CNMI:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":210951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7056,5963,7057,6333],"class_list":["post-210606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-care","tag-matt-deleon-guerrero","tag-megan-helton","tag-typhoon-soudelor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}