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Page 5 of 7 City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org will be offered from June 23-July 25, 2025, including workshops on career readiness, leadership, and financial literacy; field trips for career exploration and college visits; and community engagement through volunteer projects. The program goals are to: Build empowerment, entrepreneurship, and employment skills. Provide essential knowledge, resources, and motivation for success. Foster social awareness, critical thinking, and community engagement. Prepare students for academic and professional opportunities. When Amendment No. 3 was approved by the City Council in November, the intention was to begin implementing a new future direction of the PACE Program with a narrower focus. PAL Center will manage the new PACE Program, continuing to work in close collaboration with City staff and Redwood City Together, but without a formal service agreement with the City. PAL Center will take full administrative responsibility for PACE, while the City will continue to provide support in the form of participation by staff from numerous City departments, identification of funding opportunities, and strategic guidance. While funding has not yet been identified for this transitional phase, the PAL Center’s focused efforts to minimize expenditures while maximizing impact have resulted in a balance of unspent funds that can be used to sustain the program until funding is identified to transition PACE to its new model of service. Given the number of systemic challenges faced by low-income youth of color in the community, combined with community concerns about violent crimes, a sustained effort is needed to maintain positive momentum, continue to build trust, and create a sustainable culture of opportunity for our youth. The PACE program has had meaningful successes addressing challenges faced by youth. Now, the intention is to create deeper systems transformation by building on these successes, creating new opportunities for at-risk youth, and deepening the ability to measure impact and adjust the system based on the lessons learned along the way. Beginning in 2025, to achieve a significant, measurable reduction in youth violence, PAL Center will be co-creating a new framework with youth and key partners to divert youth from crime and misbehavior through a coordinated, highly trained team of intensive life coaches and violence interrupters with deep community connections and lived experience. This strategy will continue to address the five PACE goals of providing jobs; support services; opportunities to sit on City, County and community-based decision-making advisory spaces; work with public safety officials to expand offerings; and increase youth-serving amenities in Redwood City and North Fair Oaks. The result will be an efficient, effective, and collective approach to engage a significant number of youth with mental health services, mentors, job and paid internship opportunities, and other positive activities and outlets that divert youth from negative and unhealthy behaviors by connecting them to a network of community-based nonprofit organizations that offer a full spectrum of strength-based activities for youth and their families. PAL Center intends to evolve into a navigation hub for the hardest-to-reach young people in Redwood City and North Fair Oaks, and will work closely and collaboratively with Sequoia Union High School District and RCPD. In addition, PAL Center will seek to partner with other organizations that are passionate about ensuring high levels of client service for youth through joint training and a transparent client management system that fosters measurable results and ongoing process improvement. The PACE program has 6.I. - Page 5 of 11 344