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Help East Palo Alto youth get that first job, connect with caring adults, and build their future!
East Palo Alto's Sponsored Employment Program: Experience it for yourself in this video and then click below if you would like to lend your support
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A first job means so many things for a young person. But in East Palo Alto till now it's been pretty hard to get the chance that is often the first step towards adulthood. A lack of local jobs for youth is part of the problem but there are other barriers as well.
A brush with the legal system can already mark you for life. Being an immigrant and not speaking English really limit your options. Foster care, teen parenting and no high school diploma are some other barriers. And the big Catch 22: if you haven't had a job you can't get a job.
East Palo Alto's Sponsored Employment Program (SEP) tackles this problem head on, creating 100 jobs every summer for those most likely not to get a first chance to start building a resume.
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Don't Dump, Just Recycle!
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From Mental Health to Multicultural Wellness
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Recycling in East Palo Alto is convenient,
comprehensive and free
When that big clean up day comes, do you know where to get rid of old couches, broken TV sets, unfixable washing machines or, worst of all, non-working refrigerators?
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"Are you kidding? Did you say 'mental health'? Where I come from people do not go to 'mental health,' OK?"
For long-time East Palo Alto resident Ray Mills, seeking supportive services because of ways you were feeling or thinking just meant you were "crazy" and so it was better to keep it to yourself, or at most within the family.
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Volunteers needed for
Library Adult Literacy
Program
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A Tribute to Our New
President
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Share the Gift of Reading and Writing
"Caution: Road Construction Ahead." "Do not give to children under 12 years of age."
For millions of adults in America and worldwide, reading these simple words presents an enormous struggle. East Palo Alto Library, recognizing this problem, offers an adult literacy program to specifically address this issue and to help adults in our community to reach their full potential.
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New Videos from EPA.net
I work with a fine group of young people at EPA.net, who were out early on the morning of January 20 to record reactions to the inauguration of President Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, and the first African American president in this country.
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