{"id":1474,"date":"2021-07-28T01:41:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T06:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2021-07-28T01:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T06:41:50","slug":"new-initiative-introducing-the-housing-counseling-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/blog\/new-initiative-introducing-the-housing-counseling-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"New Initiative: Introducing the Housing Counseling Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/housing-logo-800px.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/housing-logo-800px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/housing-logo-800px.jpg 800w, https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/housing-logo-800px-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/housing-logo-800px-768x192.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Housing Action Illinois is excited to bring together two of our programs\u2014supporting housing counseling agencies and managing a network of AmeriCorps VISTA members\u2014for a new initiative: the <strong>Housing Counseling Corps<\/strong>. We will place AmeriCorps VISTA members with agencies in need of new talent and HUD-certified housing counselors. After a year of service, these AmeriCorps members will be well-positioned to begin a job as a certified counselor at their host site or another housing counseling agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re hosting an <a href=\"https:\/\/default.salsalabs.org\/T459212f8-bd63-44f2-ade2-d6f342abc4c2\/76b6cdca-59a6-42f6-afa3-5fcc4f56c4ac\">informational webinar<\/a> on how to write a strong application to become host site on <strong>August 24<\/strong>; applications will be due on <strong>September 10<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/default.salsalabs.org\/T52eb9e62-081f-422d-8584-21d41be601f4\/76b6cdca-59a6-42f6-afa3-5fcc4f56c4ac\">Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing Action Illinois is excited to bring together two of our programs\u2014supporting housing counseling agencies and managing a network of AmeriCorps VISTA members\u2014for a new initiative: the Housing Counseling Corps. We will place AmeriCorps VISTA members with agencies in need of new talent and HUD-certified housing counselors. After a year of service, these AmeriCorps members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themonroefoundation.org\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}