Something that they didn't sell you when you're growing up is the American Green.

We do have to work hard.

My name is Chanel Evans-Kears.

I am the Outreach Coordinator for the City of Scranton, and an Outreach Coordinator is the person that connects the resource for the city to the residents in the city.

Community cleanup.

All this will be cleaned up soon.

Organization is key for me sometimes, so checking my phone calls, catching up on emails.

After I've done that, just kind of going through any other organization in the area, seeing if they have any opportunity for me to kind of join them with their outreach, because collaboration is key to this work.

And we are arriving at Weston Fieldhouse.

This is our community center.

A lot of my outreach for City Hall happens here.

It is a centralized location and has been for the City of Scranton for a very long time.

A lot of families know this area as the place to come for community events and any other things that they might want to engage in at the community center.

A walkthrough of a typical day.

Helping people as they come in if they need help.

If not, then just finding ways that I could be of service to someone else.

All right, we are going to go into this building, and I'm going to show all the places we utilize for outreach.

One event that I'm always excited about is our cleaning initiative.

We host a monthly cleanup called Sprucing Up Scranton, and we target different areas in our community, and we'll just go out and clean up.

We do provide like bags, gloves, a snack, some water, making sure you're hydrated.

It's getting hot, so we want to make sure our residents are safe as we're going cleaning up.

Another event that I am, we're in the process of planning is World Refugee Day, and our refugee population is one of my favorite communities to work with.

This event, World Refugee Day, I really enjoy because it brings the community who is not from the area, connects them to the residents who are in the area, and we just learn and grow from each other's culture and collaboration.

The City of Scranton is proud to be home of a vibrant and diverse refugee population that enriches the cultural, economic, and social fabric of our community.

The moment that I realized that this career was for me was helping a resident.

I could not help her with the situation that she needed, but at the end of the conversation, she was in tears hugging me and thanking me just simply for my kindness, called me an angel, and I think that moment changed the rest of my life.

So this is our community resource table for Weston Fieldhouse.

We host a lot of community events here, like there's a senior art class, there's art in the park, a kids cooking class that goes on here, and something that I provide for this table is our community resource list.

So with this, it's a resource list housed with information where there is food, shelter, clothing, utility assistance, you need rental assistance, you have questions for our rental manager, all that information is found here.

I did a lot of volunteer work while I was at Lackawanna College and I met Maricoc Daddy and one day I mentioned to her a problem that I noticed in the city.

She told me to go apply for a job, graduated college, and two days later I was at her office working as the outreach coordinator.

Oh no.

You might, you might, you might.

Yeah, no there's no way.

Slow and steady.

Snatch it out real quick, it's gonna fall.

I have a disability of visual impairment, so that comes from my albinism.

I can read, I can write, I can do all the things that everyone else does, I just have glasses that are extremely strong.

My visual impairments showed me that I can push me to go further than I ever thought that I could go.

If I can't push me, how can I push you?

One of the part of my job is to go out and find barriers of access in our community.

So one that I noticed was access to food.

So we had an organization, the Indigo Swim Foundation, wanted to join us with our pop - up events and we had a kitchen.

So we brought them in and they were able to gradually expand our reach on what resources we're bringing to the areas.

Find the things that you innately do well and fit that to the career that you want to do.

Find people to get involved here with, even your neighbor next door who might be 76 who can't cut their grass.

Go cut their grass, go take out their trash.

That is a way for you to get involved in your community because you never know where this position might lead you to.