Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc.
MEO Youth Services, 3rd Annual Girl Power Conference
MEO Youth Services, Girl’s program participants and staff were among the 500 attendees at the 3rd Annual Girl Power Conference on Oahu, October 20, 2007. The conference is put on to encourage girls to hold on to their voices, and stay true to themselves, enhance judgment and critical thinking skills for wise and healthy choices, and to improve their self esteem. We are very grateful here at MEO Youth Services to have the opportunity to be apart of this unique group. This is a new initiative for the Youth Services Program. Starting a gender specific program for girls and boys has opened the door for new possibilities.
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Girls Circle Project
Is designed to supports girls’ growth and development, to help encourage and motivate 12 to 18- year-old girls to make the most of their lives. The program strives to encourage girls to hold on to their voices, and stay true to themselves, enhance judgment and critical thinking skills for wise and healthy choices.
The Project Mission
► To guide our youth.
► To empowering them to take responsibility for their safety and well being.
► To help steer them in the right direction.
► To empowering them to take responsibility for their safety and well being.
► To help steer them in the right direction.
We want to see them succeed. So we dream BIG!
Tobacco Prevention Program
Is designed to promote healthy youth with a healthy environment to be tobacco free. Development activities with information and motivation to build resilient youth.
The Project Mission
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To introduce youth with the Minnesota Smoking prevention curriculum.
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To provide ideas of how to address tobacco prevention community-wide through the involvement of parents and students.
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Identify reasons why people start using tobacco.
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To practice skills for resisting peer pressure to use tobacco.
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To recognize the convert message in tobacco advertising.
Youth Services walks for funds
MEO YouthBank members have both worked at and participated in the Maui Visitor Industry Walk every year since the YouthBank program began. Their first year of participation was May 19, 1998. YouthBank members will be at the Charity Walk site at dawn to help set up tables and chairs, signs and decorations and whatever last minute items need to be arranged. Members have also sought sponsorships and participated in the walk every year.MEO YouthBank has been a beneficiary of the financial awards each year. It is a procedure of the Charity Walk that all money raised by a participating agency through sponsorships is returned to the agency as part of the beneficiary award. That money is in addition to receiving a portion of the funds that are raised by the hotels on behalf of Maui’s Charities.
MEO youth have many other good reasons to participate. They feel good because they know they are serving the community, they enjoy the spirit of the event as they are walking with two thousand other Mauians and they feel good after helping with the set up, when they see such a great crowd benefiting from their early labors.A particularly good reason for participating is that they receive stipends for their community service set-up work, as they do for other work experiences through the year, like the Cameron Center Bazaar and the Senior Fair. In fact the money from the Charity Walk beneficiary award is earmarked to help provide for stipends for other work projects that they will undertake.
And there’s one more good reason. Early in the day youth assist the hotel chefs getting ready to set out the breakfast. After the walk, it’s a good match, a first class hotel style breakfast and youthful hearty appetites.Most YouthBank members are from low income families, finding it very difficult to seek sponsorship.
If you want to sponsor a youth make a check out to MEO indicating charity walk in the bottom corner. Send it c/o YouthBank. We will provide a receipt and a description of the use of your sponsorship.
