A presentation on the school safety survey results will be presented. The Healthy Youth Survey is taken by students to find out their perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors regarding a wide range of health-related issues and is a collaborative effort between OSPI, the Department of Health, the Office of Community Development, and the Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse.

Grandview United is currently surveying the community about some of these same issues. Surveys are available online at www.grandviewunited.org. The community is invited to participate in this survey. The data will be used to develop a data bank of people interested in providing mentoring or other skills with the youth of Grandview. The surveys focus on safety and activities that youth of Grandview would like to see in our community.

Grandview United will be hosting a community meeting on May 5th at 5:00 p.m. at Compass High School/Administration Building. The results of the Healthy Youth Survey as well as look at the current responses from the survey underway by Grandview United will be presented. Parents, students, and community members are invited to attend.

The Citizens for Safe Yakima Valley Communities will host their 3rd annual Youth Career and Job Fair from 1–5:00 p.m. on Monday, March 23 at Southeast Yakima Community Center.  Yakima valley high school students are encouraged to attend.  This collaborative community effort aims to employ 150 high school age youth in part-time summer jobs from June 15–July 10. For students to be eligible they must attend the Career and Job Fair on March 23 to participate in the program. The job fair is free to students to attend. Southeast Yakima Community Center is located at 1211 S. 7th Street.

To be successful at our goal, we need your support.  If you have, or can create, a 4-week job at 20 hours a week for a youth, please call us at 248-2021 x112.  For a $685 investment, a youth will experience their first job.  Please join us in supporting and growing self esteem, confidence, and hope for our youth.

To provide youth jobs, contact:
Ken Marble, President, Horizon Distribution, Inc. (HDI) (509) 453-3181 x221
Bill Dolsen, President, The Dolsen Companies (509) 248-2831 x123
Ester Huey, Director, Southeast Yakima Community Center (509) 575-6114

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