Benefits
EUIP provides housing, health insurance, and assistance with transportation. Interns receive a monthly stipend to pay for food, gas, auto insurance, entertainment, etc. The intern year begins the last week of August and continues through August 15th of the following year. Interns receive two weeks vacation, which they must have approved by worksite supervisors. (Interns who work in a school setting follow the school calendar.)
AmeriCorps
EUIP interns are members of AmeriCorps, a program of the Corporation for National Service. EUIP participates in AmeriCorps through the Catholic Network of Volunteer Service/AmeriCorps Education Awards Program (CNVS/AEAP).
AmeriCorps Education Awards are given to AmeriCorps Members who successfully complete a required term of service. An education award can be used:
- To repay qualified, existing, or future student loans.
- To pay all or part of the cost of attending a qualified institution of higher education (including certain vocational programs).
- To pay expenses incurred while participating in an approved school-to-work program.
CNVS/AEAP members typically earn an education award of $4,725 after successfully completing 1700 service hours.
An intern’s participation in EUIP does not guarantee that an intern will qualify for AmeriCorps benefits.
Location
EUIP is currently housed at St. Stephen’s, Hollwood: 6125 Carlos Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90028.
Beginning in August 2010, EUIP will open a second house at St. Luke’s, Long Beach: 525 East Seventh Street, Long Beach, CA, 90813.
We try to partner with agencies that are possible to reach using public transportation, and provide additional assistance for interns to purchase monthly transit passes. Interns are also allowed to bring their own cars if they wish. The program owns a limited number of cars for interns to share in case public transportation is not an option.
Staff
The Rev. Jaime Edwards-Acton, Executive Director, Jubilee Consortium
Jaime Edwards-Acton is a founding board member of Jubilee Consortium and has been the Executive Director since 2005. Jaime is also the Rector of Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church, a vibrant, bilingual parish in the heart of Hollywood. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Masters in Divinity from the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Jaime was a member of the founding class of EUIP in 1991. During his year as an intern, he worked as a case manager for Saint Barnabas Senior Services in downtown Los Angeles, assisting low-income seniors with an array of services.
Jaime is also a founding board member and leader of L.A. Voice, a PICO-affiliated, interfaith organization, committed to engaging people in public life through their church, synagogue, or mosque. Jaime is bilingual in Spanish and English.
The Rev. Jason Cox, Program Director, EUIP
Jason Cox was appointed director of EUIP in July, 2007. A passionate advocate for social and economic justice, Jason served as an intern in the program class of 2002-03, working as a case manager in a transitional housing facility on LA’s skid row. Following his intern year, Jason entered Virginia Theological Seminary, earning an M.Div. in May, 2007. EUIP combines two of Jason’s ministry passions: young adult formation and social justice.