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YOUNT PROGRAM COORDINATOR DUTIES

Background
The Yount Program is administered by the PEF Department of the LDS Church but operates in Regional areas under priesthood authority. An Area 70 Authority presides over the program within the general requirements established by Yount Headquarters. Yount Coordinators are called by the Area 70 Authority as needed to assist in the execution of the program.
Program Operation
The Yount Program has two components: a priesthood component and a Yount staff component. The priesthood component identifies and rounds up members who could profit from further education. The Yount Program component assists members to prepare for, get into, pay for and succeed in school or other job-related training.

Yount Coordinators are on call to orient groups of people in stakes and wards who are interested in furthering their education. An assigned person tracks seminar participants and provides support throughout the educational advancement experience. That includes the mini grant and loan application process.

Yount Coordinator Duties

  1. Work with stake and ward priesthood leaders as directed by the Area 70 in charge.
  2. Assist the Area 70 as directed to see that local priesthood leaders are fully briefed and informed on the Yount Program and how it operates.
  3. Assist the Area 70 in training local priesthood leaders on how to identify and round up people who could profit from further education, how to set up a briefing session by a Yount Church Service Missionary and how to sustain participants. The Yount Church Service Missionaries can assist in this function.
  4. Provide leadership to Yount Church Service Missionaries.
  5. Collect monthly reports from Yount missionaries and submit a monthly summary report to Yount headquarters.
  6. Understand the Yount on-line Loan application process and assist eligible applicants to apply.
  7. Work with the local Employment Resource Services Center and facilitate the delivery of the Career Workshop as needed by participants.
  8. Teach the Yount Seminar to groups of members as called upon.
  9. Prepare and send to stake presidents a quarterly report listing participants and showing their progress.
  10. Make recommendations to the Yount Program administrator for program improvement.