Community Interact!		Poetic Voices
Major Next Step for the East Palo Alto Digital Village Imagine the possibilities for improved communication and collaboration if East Palo Alto's many nonprofits and faith-based organizations were networked together through high speed Internet access. This dream is set to become a reality through a new project entitled Community Interact: Net-Connected Communication for the Common Good (Community Interact!). Community Interact! is one of several major projects being implemented as part of continuing operations of the East Palo Alto Digital Village ( EPADV). Click to read more...		New poems from the community Everything that has to be said Hasn't ever been said. Everything that has to be done Hasn't ever been done. So, what's the point? What's the point?! There's still time for you To get your message through. What are you going to do about it? When are you going to do it? -Poetess Kalamu Chaché, EPA.net Poetry Editor Here's how to submit your poems to Poetic Voices. Click to read this month's poetry...

Born to Lead		Another Chance For Education
Local Entrepreneur Tells His Story By Halim Mustafa My intention in sharing this story is to serve as an inspiration to my community, especially to many of the youth whom I worked with over the years for life awareness and career motivation. It is important for them to see some closure in my life as it relates to the multitude of activities I have represented in my work for humanity that have unfolded in my life's "Cycle of Success" journey, which has taken a major span of time, energy and sacrifice. Many of the youth I worked with over the years in our small community have grown up, gotten married and now have families of their own. And others have grown up to make bad choices, becoming community criminals and prison inmates. Click to read more...		EPA Police Department program helping teenage boys get back on track By Jeffrey M. Carroll, Program Coordinator John*, a 7th-grader in the Ravenswood City School District, was sitting in the back of an East Palo Alto police car contemplating his future. He had just been arrested for stealing a minibike, which he had also crashed. His leg was bleeding profusely from the accident but that was not what John was worried about. He kept asking the officer if he was really going to jail. The officer said, "We'll see what happens after you get some medical attention." But John did not end up going to jail. Instead he was referred to Another Chance for Education (ACE), a youth diversion program of the East Palo Alto Police Department. * Name has been changed to protect privacy. Click to read more...
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