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WANT TO BE HAPPIER? Volunteer at Fairfield PAL!

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he research is clear! cooking classes and video games. We, and our commuThe center has an active Career nity, become happier Café program that offers a and healthier after variety of workshops and classes – volunteering. including the annual Business The Fairfield Police Activities Etiquette Challenge Gauntlet, League (PAL) has been active in internships, the Money Game, Fairfield since the 1970s! In 2009, Clifton Strengths Based Leaderafter a needs assessment, the ship, and entrepreneurial and board of directors honed their personal branding programs. focus to teens and together with Members can find a quiet place the city of Fairfield and others, to finish school projects and opened the Matt Garcia Youth homework at the Homework PAL members team up to play our version of Double Dare! Center. That is when things Zone – and participate in GPA really took off. Since then, PAL has served more than boot camps to improve their study skills, explore critical 4,000 local teens and their families. Fairfield PAL thinking strategies and learn test-taking practices. uses recreation to engage underserved teens and While staff and volunteers weave the Alive & Free build great qualities. violence prevention framework throughout all of the PAL’s fun and games become a consistent lab for center’s programs, members can also attend stress manmembers to test out new ways to make friends, solve agement workshops, develop an Adverse Childhood problems, and think about their future. The PAL Center is Experiences (ACEs) toolbox, participate in Service Learnopen from 3 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and ing, join the Girls Circle (made possible with support from from 3 to 10:30 p.m. Friday. Memberships are entirely free! the Soroptimist International of Central Solano County) or Membership is open to any Fairfield, Suisun City or Travis Boys Council structured support groups, tap into their teen ages 13-18 who is enrolled in school. creativity to help them lean into their social and emoThe center hosts a calendar of both traditional and tional skills at Chill & Spill art classes, improve their nontraditional recreational activities like basketball, communication skills at a Community Circle, develop boxing, roller-skating, martial arts, dance, arts and crafts, their leadership and civic deftness while serving on the PAL Student Council, prepare for life after high school at contests, chess, laser tag, bubble soccer, archery tag,

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Chamber Member Since 2005

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www.pamwatson.com • pam@pamwatson.com SUMMER 2022


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