Chelsea V.

At the end of my Civic Service, I decided to continue my commitment with my association by becoming the local ambassador for the Poitiers branch. I participate in promoting the Civic Service program and the association at local and national levels, acting as a resource person in parallel. I support new volunteers in their first steps within the association and in their mission; I have also represented Unis-Cité in associative forums; finally, I have championed the values of commitment, inclusion, and empathy that I share with my association and the Civic Service program at the Congress of Rural Mayors of France in 2025, in Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, by speaking during panel discussions and during the general debrief of the "youth and rurality" session at the end of the day.

The CRJ allows me to engage more with the various local populations and stakeholders, practicing citizenship and regional public policy. Involved in various working groups, I apply my orthotypographic skills by correcting Instagram posts and various articles, while also making them inclusive; in parallel, I tackle issues of freedom of expression, particularly in a journalistic and institutional context.

I had the opportunity to undertake a collective Civic Service in a mission aimed at combating the isolation of our elders, and I was able to acquire new skills as well as develop others established previously. Among them: managing a budget; creating, implementing, and chaperoning events at the local and regional level; prioritizing tasks appropriately; supporting the association's beneficiaries; working with my team, as well as with other teams present in my association; creating and maintaining relationships with the partners of my mission; managing my team's media presence on social networks.