MEO Youth Services youths pick up 2,104 cigarette butts to mark the Great American Smokeout
A total of 2,104 cigarette butts were picked up by Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services participants at the Kahului Harbor Breakwater in conjunction with the Great American Smokeout on Thursday, Nov. 18. The 18 youths scoured the breakwater off Kahului Beach Road...
MEO Youth Services-leaders join homeless awareness sign waving
About 25 Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services participants and agency staff held signs that read “Homelessness Affects You,” “Everyone Should Have A Home” and “Imagine a Maui Where everyone lives in a House” on Tuesday, Nov. 16, along Kaahumanu Avenue as part of a...
Great American Smokeout 2021
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‘Ohana Fright Night features movie- activities at MEO
Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services screened the movie “Hocus Pocus” and offered other Halloween activities at its 'Ohana Fright Night. The event drew about 10 families and 50 children to the parking lot of MEO in Wailuku on the evening of Oct. 22 in an event...
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...