Community Volunteer Ambassadors are a group of young adults, brought together through a partnership between the National Park Service and the Stewards Individual Placement Program to lend their talents, energy, and enthusiasm to help strengthen the relationship between parks and local communities. CVA's are typically recent high school and college graduates who serve year-long terms in National Parks across the country. CVA's work to expand volunteer opportunities and connection points for community members.

By engaging Indigenous youth and young adults in conservation service programs, we work to reconnect participants to the land, their cultural heritage, and their traditions. Our committed staff works to remove barriers to participation, education, and employment by partnering with local community organizations, agencies, and institutes of higher learning to create paid service and career training opportunities, personal and professional development, and pathways to postsecondary education and employment.

Engaging veterans on critical fuel reduction and fire prevention projects to protect communities and help veterans find a new sense of purpose and celebrating the contributions veterans have made to the history of the nation.