MEO Youth Services after-school members offer anti-suicide messages
About a dozen members of Maui Economic Opportunity’s Youth Services program waved signs like “Tomorrow Needs You,” "Malama Iā ‘Oe Iho - Take Care Of Yourself," and "Asking for Help Is A Sign of Courage” on Wednesday, Sept. 8, to help mark Suicide Prevention Week....
MEO Youth Services offers anti-bullying, suicide program
A youth bullying and suicide prevention program, Defenders Connect, will be offered by Maui Economic Opportunity’s Youth Services from 4 to 5 p.m. Aug. 23, 24 and 26 via Zoom. It is a training program for 7th to 12th graders that focuses on identifying youths...
Sugar Beach gets a cleaning by MEO, BBBS, Monkeypod restaurant
Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services summer program kids, Big Brothers Big Sisters Bigs and Littles and Monkeypod Kitchen by Merriman staff joined in the E mālama I kō kākou moana “Save Our Ocean” beach cleanup on July 29. Sixteen youths from MEO’s summer program,...
Malamalama Farms, MEO Youth Visit Video
Mrs. Victorino stops to applaud MEO Youth Services highway cleanup
Fifteen youths in Maui Economic Opportunity’s Youth Services summer program were picking up rubbish along Maui Veterans Highway when a car pulled to the side of the road. Out stepped Joycelyn Victorino, first lady of Maui County. She spent some time with the youths,...
MEO anti-drinking program back in classroom at Kalama Intermediate
MEO anti-drinking program back in classroom at Kalama Intermediate Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services instructors returned to the classroom at Kalama Intermediate on May 17 to teach the Underage Drinking Prevention program for the first time since the start of...
MEO Youth Services families cook uppasta and quality family time
About a dozen Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services families chopped garlic, boiled pasta and reduced cream on their stovetops at home – under the livestreamed guidance of two local chefs -- to whip up some Alfredo pasta and quality ohana time. “Dinner is all about...
MEO Youth Services No Cost Enrichment Program
MEO Youth Services is offering programs for 5th to 12th grade students. Prevention Courses (Virtual Only) Each Course consists of 5 one-hour sessions. (Offered Year Round) Slick Tracy (For 5th to 7th graders)– A comic books series that focuses on the effects of...
MEO Youth Services members make 250 tie-dye face masks for Kula Hospital staff, people with disabilities, houseless
Maui Economic Opportunity’s youth program participants made nearly 250 tie-dye masks last month that are being donated to staff at Kula Hospital, Maui Independent Living Center residents and houseless people through the Salvation Army. A total of eight youths made 242...
Youth at the coalition for a tobacco-free Hawaii
MEO's Youth Services and Underage Drinking Prevention Program's youth at the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii meeting in support for the youth's selected 2017-18 initiative, "Smoke-Free Cars with Kids"