Community Dental Outreach and Communications Coordination VISTA

Community Dental is a nonprofit in Maine that provides oral healthcare through dental centers in Biddeford, Farmington, Lewiston, and Portland. We serve over 11,000 patients in a single year and are the largest dental nonprofit in the state. In 2024 we delivered oral healthcare services worth $12.5 million.  

Each dental center is the heart of how we serve our mission to improve the lives of children and adults in our communities through needed, accessible, quality, comprehensive oral healthcare.  

Increasing access to oral healthcare. We focus on affordable and accessible care for people with lower incomes and those experiencing poverty. We do this by accepting the state’s public insurance, MaineCare, managing insurance billing, and offering sliding-scale fees based on household income.  

Seven out of every ten Community Dental patients are members of a low-income household enrolled in MaineCare. Children and adults from lower-income households are more likely to experience untreated dental cavities and oral diseases disproportionately than those with higher incomes.  

We treat medically underserved populations, including immigrants and refugees, people with emotional, mental, and physical disabilities, veterans without VA healthcare, migrant workers, and people who are homeless.   

Website: www.communitydentalme.org. 

Our AmeriCorps VISTA member’s primary efforts will be to create and implement digital communication deliverables, strategies, and systems to strengthen and connect Community Dental relationships. These efforts aim to create sustainable, effective processes to ensure board directors, individual donors, and grantors have access to the best available information. This will improve Community Dental’s ability to access funding to operate our programs. 

Benefits

• Bi-Weekly Living Allowance of $957.46/Biweekly
• Relocation Allowance of $750 plus $.40 per mile (for those moving more than 50 miles)
• Health Benefits
• Childcare Reimbursement if Eligible
• Student Loan Forbearance for eligible federal loans (interest paid by AmeriCorps)
• SNAP Eligibility (depending on financial situation)
• Training and Professional Development
• Life Navigator (on-staff licensed counselor for members)
• Choice of Segal AmeriCorps Education Award* ($7,395) or an end-of-term bonus ($1,800) upon term completion
• Non-Competitive Eligibility for federal employment for one-year post-term
• Extensive Training 

*Individuals are limited to two full Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards in their lifetime

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The positive impact VISTA members offer their local communities is remarkable and continues to build year after year. Descriptions of all Goodwill AmeriCorps Positions can be found at: goodwillnne.org/jobs/americorps/positions/.