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Youth Opportunity Academy
Youth Opportunity Academy (alternately YO! Academy) is a public, alternative high school located in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. The school allows students who have dropped out to obtain either high school diplomas or GEDs. The school is located in the Lafayette Square Community Center, in a building that was originally built in 1972 and originally served as a branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

YO! Baltimore

The academy is run in concert with Baltimore City Public Schools by Youth Opportunity (YO!) Baltimore, a non-profit organization. YO! was founded in 2000 to provide workforce and education support services, mentoring and social services to young people (18-24) in Baltimore. The center also maintains a closet of donated clothes for jobs & interviews. It operates two community resource sites, one in the same center as the academy, the other in East Baltimore, at 1212 North Wolfe Street. Funded from 2000 to 2006 by federal grant, YO! has since operated with funding from the Mayor's Office of Economic Development, and has partnered with Johns Hopkins University. The program has also received volunteers through the AmeriCorps program.

References

  1. ^ "Youth Opportunity". Baltimore City Public Schools.
  2. ^ "Media Advisory: 40 Baltimore City Students to Graduate from Youth Opportunity (YO) Baltimore Programs". City of Baltimore. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  3. ^ "63 Baltimore City Students Graduate from Youth Opportunity (YO) Baltimore". City of Baltimore. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  4. ^ Green, Erica (2011-01-07). "Youth Opportunity Academy". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 3. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  5. ^ "Jobs workshop slated at Pratt library branch". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1980-04-20. p. 116. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  6. ^ "Suburbs outstrip building rate in city". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1972-05-21. p. 124. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  7. ^ "Youth Services". Mayor's Office of Employment Development. 2015-10-23. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  8. ^ Stiehm, Jamie (2001-03-27). "Improved prospects for youths envisioned". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. 11. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  9. ^ Pringle, Megan (2017-12-20). "YO! Baltimore helps young people gain employment". WBAL. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  10. ^ "Office of the Mayor's Youth Opportunity (YO!) Baltimore". Retrieved 2019-04-29.


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