{"id":7197,"date":"2009-03-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-health-education-committee-passes-legislation-to-strengthen-national-service-programs\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:11:53","slug":"senate-health-education-committee-passes-legislation-to-strengthen-national-service-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senate-health-education-committee-passes-legislation-to-strengthen-national-service-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"El Comit\u00e9 Senatorial de Salud y Educaci\u00f3n aprueba legislaci\u00f3n para fortalecer los programas del Servicio Nacional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 El Comit\u00e9 Senatorial de Salud, Educaci\u00f3n, Trabajo y Pensiones aprob\u00f3 hoy una legislaci\u00f3n para fortalecer los programas que fomentan el servicio comunitario, una de las principales prioridades del presidente Barack Obama. El Senador de Oreg\u00f3n Jeff Merkley, copatrocinador del proyecto de ley y miembro del Comit\u00e9, est\u00e1 trabajando con sus colegas para aclarar que bajo el programa, los voluntarios de servicio pueden contribuir a sus comunidades restaurando la salud de los bosques y reduciendo el riesgo de incendios forestales en las tierras p\u00fablicas de Oreg\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDurante este tiempo de turbulencia econ\u00f3mica, muchos estadounidenses est\u00e1n buscando formas de retribuir a sus comunidades y ayudar a los necesitados\u201d, dijo Merkley. \u201cLos programas de servicio como AmeriCorps ayudan a que esto sea posible brindando oportunidades para las personas y asistencia a las organizaciones de servicios\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>La Ley Serve America mejorar\u00e1 los programas de servicio nacional, como AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve, AmeriCorps VISTA, National Civilian Community Corps y Senior Corps Programs al:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ampliar el n\u00famero de participantes del servicio nacional de 75.000 a 250.000;<\/li>\n<li>Aumentar las oportunidades para que sirvan personas de todas las edades, desde estudiantes hasta personas mayores;<\/li>\n<li>Brindar asistencia a organizaciones sin fines de lucro para reclutar y administrar m\u00e1s voluntarios;<\/li>\n<li>Apoyar la innovaci\u00f3n en el sector sin fines de lucro; y<\/li>\n<li>Mejorar y ampliar las oportunidades de servicio internacional.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>En particular, la legislaci\u00f3n tambi\u00e9n designar\u00e1 oportunidades de servicios espec\u00edficos a trav\u00e9s del programa AmeriCorps:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>cuerpo de educaci\u00f3n<\/em> cuyos miembros trabajan para mejorar el rendimiento acad\u00e9mico, las tasas de graduaci\u00f3n y matr\u00edcula universitaria, la participaci\u00f3n de los estudiantes y otras necesidades educativas.<\/li>\n<li><em>Cuerpo de Futuros Saludables<\/em> cuyos miembros trabajan para aumentar el acceso a la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica entre las personas de bajos ingresos y sin seguro, la participaci\u00f3n en programas de prevenci\u00f3n de enfermedades por parte de quienes m\u00e1s los necesitan, la alfabetizaci\u00f3n en salud entre los pacientes y otras necesidades de salud.<\/li>\n<li><em>Cuerpo de Servicio de Energ\u00eda Limpia<\/em> cuyos miembros trabajan para mejorar la eficiencia energ\u00e9tica, los parques, senderos y bosques nacionales y estatales, y otras necesidades ambientales, de recursos y de energ\u00eda limpia.<\/li>\n<li><em>Cuerpo de oportunidad<\/em> cuyos miembros se enfocan en la reducci\u00f3n de la pobreza y la asistencia a personas de bajos ingresos.<\/li>\n<li><em>Cuerpo de Veteranos<\/em> cuyos miembros brindan los servicios y la asistencia necesarios a los veteranos, y brindar\u00e1n oportunidades de servicio para los veteranos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A medida que el proyecto de ley contin\u00faa para ser considerado por el pleno del Senado, el Senador Merkley est\u00e1 trabajando con sus colegas para garantizar que los esfuerzos del Cuerpo de Servicios de Energ\u00eda Limpia incluyan programas dedicados a mejorar la salud de los bosques y reducir el riesgo de incendios forestales catastr\u00f3ficos a trav\u00e9s del aclareo de bosques.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLa Ley Serve America es un buen proyecto de ley que podemos mejorar fomentando los esfuerzos de los voluntarios para mejorar la salud de los bosques. Tenemos una enorme acumulaci\u00f3n de proyectos de raleo que completar para prevenir incendios forestales y proteger a las comunidades rurales. Los programas del Servicio Forestal financiados por el paquete de recuperaci\u00f3n aprobado recientemente realizar\u00e1n parte de este trabajo. Pero todav\u00eda se necesitan esfuerzos de voluntarios\u201d, dijo Merkley. \u201cSeguir\u00e9 trabajando con el comit\u00e9 y mis colegas para asegurarme de que la salud forestal siga siendo un enfoque para las organizaciones de servicios en los a\u00f1os venideros\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC &ndash; The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions today passed legislation to strengthen programs that encourage community service, a major priority of President Barack Obama.&nbsp; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley, a cosponsor of the bill and member of the Committee, is working with his colleagues to clarify that under the program, service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[40,44],"class_list":["post-7197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-education","tag-jobs-and-the-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senate Health, Education Committee Passes Legislation to Strengthen National Service Programs - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senate-health-education-committee-passes-legislation-to-strengthen-national-service-programs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate Health, Education Committee Passes Legislation to Strengthen National Service Programs - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON, DC &ndash; 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