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...
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,...
MEO to start drug, suicide, bullying prevention with Molokai youths
Maui Economic Opportunity will be bringing its tobacco, alcohol, drugs, bullying and suicide prevention program to high school and intermediate youths on Moloka‘i. Kāohi mirrors MEO Youth Services' evidence-based prevention curriculum on Maui and is expected to get...
Heart healthy walk by MEO staff, youths
About 20 Maui Economic Opportunity staff and Youth Services participants took a brisk walk around the J. Walter Cameron Center on Tuesday, Feb. 1, to kick off American Heart Month. Youth Services led heart healthy activities and monitoring at the nonprofit agency....
Youth Services makes headbands for Head Start preschoolers
To mark Chinese New Year and the Year of the Tiger, Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services made “tiger” headbands with special messages for students and staff in MEO Head Start preschools. The intermediate and high school students worked on the paper headbands on...
MEO’s Youth Services holiday activities
Maui Economic Opportunity's Youth Services holiday activities were featured in the Jan. 11, 2022, online edition of the AFOP Washington Newsline. A photo of Haley Taibemal wrapping gifts leads the segment on Youth Services' gift wrapping, gift collections for Ka Hale...
MEO Youth Services keiki learn about Makahiki
Kumu Teva Medeiros taught 10 Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services keiki about traditional Makahiki customs on Tuesday, Dec. 28, at Ulua Beach in Kihei. He imparted on the high school and intermediate youths the importance Native Hawaiian warriors put on physical...
MEO Youth Services gift wrapping raises nearly $900
The morning rain did not dampen Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services’ fifth annual gift wrapping event on Dec. 22, which raised $863 in donations. Youth Services’ staff and intermediate and high school students wrapped hundreds of gifts. The money raised will go...
Gift wrapping at MEO
Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services team is wrapping gifts today, Wednesday, Dec. 22, at the MEO Wailuku offices at 99 Mahalani St. Staff and youths will be accepting gifts for wrapping until about 3 p.m. The wrapping is free but donations are accepted. For more...
MEO Youth Services collecting gifts, making ornaments, gift wrapping
Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services intermediate and high schoolers are busy spreading holiday cheer making ornaments for kupuna and collecting toys and infant care necessities for keiki at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Centers. Program participants, who...