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MEO Youth Services wraps up summer program for youth

MEO Youth Services wraps up summer program for youth

Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services summer program came to an end last week after a busy two months of community service projects, such as reading to preschoolers and organizing Bingo for kupuna, and fun activities that included snorkeling at Molokini and a Maui...

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MEO Youth Services hosts town hall on suicide and prevention

MEO Youth Services hosts town hall on suicide and prevention

A Moloka‘i Suicide Prevention & Awareness Day on Wednesday, July 27, culminates in a town hall gathering at Kalaiakamanu Hou Church Hall in Kaunakakai from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services in partnership with the County of Maui and E Ola Hou...

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Youth beach park cleanup at Kanaha

Youth beach park cleanup at Kanaha

About 40 youths from Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Maui and Maui Family Support Services picked up six bags of trash at Kanaha Beach Park on Tuesday morning. The trash included bottle caps, cigarette butts, wrappers, broken...

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MEO Kaohi youth program under way on Molokai

MEO Kaohi youth program under way on Molokai

Youth in the inaugural Maui Economic Opportunity Kāohi program on Moloka‘i helped with food distribution and learned about vehicle maintenance, including changing wiper blades and fixing a tire. MEO Youth Services brought its drugs, alcohol, smoking, bullying and...

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MEO Youth Services kicks off summer break-new program year

MEO Youth Services kicks off summer break-new program year

About 30 intermediate and high school youths and their families joined Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services gathering on May 27 to welcome summer break and register for the program that guides youths away from harmful and detrimental behaviors. Youth Services runs...

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MEO at the Molokai Drug Free Movement

MEO at the Molokai Drug Free Movement

MEO offers information, swag at Moloka‘i Drug Free Movement event Youths tried to connect the dots with inebriation simulation goggles, picked up swag and learned about Maui Economic Opportunity services at the Moloka‘i Drug Free Movement event on Saturday, May 7, at...

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MEO Youth Services takes suicide prevention class to Molokai

MEO Youth Services takes suicide prevention class to Molokai

Maui Economic Opportunity’s Youth Services introduced its Suicide Prevention Basics Training to 50 7th-graders at Moloka‘i Middle School on April 11 and 12 in a program funded through a Maui County grant. Youth Services Director Dane Ka‘ae flew to Moloka‘i to teach...

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A family night of games-dinner by MEO Youth Services

A family night of games-dinner by MEO Youth Services

Fourteen families – 65 individuals in total – joined Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services ‘Ohana Night and enjoyed a meal, took a family photo and played Outburst on March 24 at MEO in Wailuku. Mary Leyva, the Maui County Tobacco-Free coordinator, also spoke to...

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Kāohi program for youths on Molokai

Kāohi program for youths on Molokai

Thank you KITV for doing a story on our Kāohi program for intermediate and high school youths on Moloka‘i. The program, which will begin soon, will offer in-school and after-school evidence-based curriculum and activities to prevent alcohol and substance abuse,...

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