Berkeley community should do more to support YEAH! homeless shelter
Ann Liu/Staff
YEAH! provides beds, hot meals and clinics on jobs and resume-building, as well as a sense of community.
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Weighing future of youth shelters with resident pushback, City Council moves toward 30 beds
Berkeley City Council faces a critical crossroads in deciding the future of youth homeless shelters in the city: either lose homeless shelter beds already in short supply or add more adjacent to resistant neighbors.
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Partnership will allow local homeless program to expand services
The Berkeley-based youth outreach program YEAH! was recently acquired by Covenant House California, combining the two agencies to make the largest shelter for homeless youth in the East Bay.
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City Council approves budget for 2017 fiscal year
At its Tuesday meeting, the Berkeley City Council approved and adopted a compromise budget for fiscal year 2017, which requires roughly $1.5 million in reserve funding and partially defunds programs including the Berkeley Drop-In Center and Youth Spirit Artworks.
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On listening
Bits of Berkeley
This semester, we set out to tackle university issues that seemed too complicated to address in one week’s column. We thought that maybe with two weeks, we could present a fuller image of the issues we hoped to explore. Unsurprisingly, we found that we could not. While two weeks allowed
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Youth entrepreneurship program expanding to include international students
A youth entrepreneurship program run through the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business will be expanding to include a select group of students from throughout the world this summer.
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