MEO offers CDL course without cost to previously incarcerated individuals
A Certified Driver’s License training course, offered at no cost to previously incarcerated Maui County residents, will be held in May by Maui Economic Opportunity.
Classes typically take about three weeks, but the….
MEO long-sleeve shirt drive for farmworkers brings in 257 shirts
A Maui Economic Opportunity-led effort to collect long-sleeve shirts for farmworkers to protect them from pesticide and heat exposure netted 257 shirts from March 24 to 31 as part of an Association of Farmworker Opportunity Program national drive….
MEO released National Dislocated Worker Grant video
Maui Economic Opportunity has released a video, which describes the National Dislocated Worker Grant that offers temporary decent paying jobs to those impacted by the wildfires….
Bishop Pahia, ‘lifeline’ for those released from jail/prison retires
Bishop Pahia has been a “lifeline” for more than a thousand inmates released from jail and prison during his 15 years with Maui Economic Opportunity’s Being Empowered and Safe Together (BEST) program….
Debbie Cabebe represented MEO at the National Community Action Washington Conference
Debbie Cabebe represented MEO at the National Community Action Washington Conference, March 12 to 15, in the nation’s capital. It was an opportunity for Community Action Agencies from across the nation to visit with U.S. House and Senate members…
2023 Annual Report: MEO helped 20,239 individuals/families
Maui Economic Opportunity assisted 20,239 individuals and families and touched 46,971 lives in the 2022-23 fiscal year, according to the recently released “Respond, Respect, Recover: Maui Economic Opportunity Annual Report 2023.”
Fighting Sickness with Fitness…
Debbie appeared on the Yanagida podcast. She talks about her life, career and MEO…
Officers elected for MEO’s M.A.U.I. Kanaktion Teen Task Force
Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services participants seeking to create new initiatives and strategies to prevent harmful behaviors in Maui County youth have organized and selected officers for their M.A.U.I. (Making An Unforgettable Impact) Kanaktion Teen Task Force…
Gladys Baisa, MEO’s 4th chief executive and council member passes
Maui Economic Opportunity mourns Monday’s passing of Gladys C. Baisa, the 59 year old nonprofit’s fourth chief executive who in her 22 years at the helm left a lasting imprint on Maui County with programs reintegrating recently released inmates into the community….
TANF fire relief expanded to individuals, households without children
Individuals and households impacted by the Maui wildfires – including those without dependent children – may be eligible for Maui Relief TANF Program assistance with housing, car, utility, clothing and school supply payments in a major expansion of the program…