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Pal Center Youth Programs offers activities such as soccer, futsal (indoor soccer), volleyball, flag football, basketball, Jr Giants Baseball, and golf. The program also includes club-style options like Art, Outdoor Sports, Cooking, Podcast, Magazine, and a drumming class. Its after-school program operates Monday through Friday at the Pal Center.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: After-school program operates Monday through Friday
PAL Center was founded in 1995. Its mission statement is that Pal Center is a core resource that co-creates solutions with the community and builds brighter futures for youth and families. The mascot, Promise the Polar Bear, symbolizes strength, power, leadership, curiosity, learning, family, and togetherness.
PAL Center was founded to unite law enforcement officers and residents in Redwood City and unincorporated North Fair Oaks and coordinates with an integrated network of city agencies and nonprofit partners. It creates opportunities for residents to engage in meaningful dialogue with law enforcement officials and other first responders. It advances economic mobility through workforce and career development services, career fairs, and matching transition-aged youth with paid internships, and it hosts financial workshops for adults and introduces children in K–8th grade to financial literacy education. Its community-centered approach uses the Community Capitals Framework, investing in natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built capitals.
The flagship summer program, Summer Sunrise, serves youth in K–8th grade and has them explore interests in the form of clubs. The Purposeful Action, Creation & Engagement (PACE) program focuses on engaging opportunity youth ages 14–24 in culturally relevant, youth-centered, and strength-based activities. The Redwood City Police Cadet Program offers experience to local teens and young adults as they explore the vocation of law enforcement.
One parent, Trina, shares that she has two kids at PAL and that having an after-school program like PAL where they can be safe and have excellent mentors is amazing, and that every day they come home happy with something they did or learned about. A middle-school PAL student says a favorite part is drumming class, including performing in front of people and learning something new, and notes feeling lucky to have that opportunity. An adult PAL member, Adriana, says the class should be offered to more people, that participants are meeting people and that the class is free, and that coming to the class is the best part of the week.
Last updated March 22, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: After-school program operates Monday through Friday
PAL Center was founded in 1995. Its mission statement is that Pal Center is a core resource that co-creates solutions with the community and builds brighter futures for youth and families. The mascot, Promise the Polar Bear, symbolizes strength, power, leadership, curiosity, learning, family, and togetherness.
PAL Center was founded to unite law enforcement officers and residents in Redwood City and unincorporated North Fair Oaks and coordinates with an integrated network of city agencies and nonprofit partners. It creates opportunities for residents to engage in meaningful dialogue with law enforcement officials and other first responders. It advances economic mobility through workforce and career development services, career fairs, and matching transition-aged youth with paid internships, and it hosts financial workshops for adults and introduces children in K–8th grade to financial literacy education. Its community-centered approach uses the Community Capitals Framework, investing in natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built capitals.
The flagship summer program, Summer Sunrise, serves youth in K–8th grade and has them explore interests in the form of clubs. The Purposeful Action, Creation & Engagement (PACE) program focuses on engaging opportunity youth ages 14–24 in culturally relevant, youth-centered, and strength-based activities. The Redwood City Police Cadet Program offers experience to local teens and young adults as they explore the vocation of law enforcement.
One parent, Trina, shares that she has two kids at PAL and that having an after-school program like PAL where they can be safe and have excellent mentors is amazing, and that every day they come home happy with something they did or learned about. A middle-school PAL student says a favorite part is drumming class, including performing in front of people and learning something new, and notes feeling lucky to have that opportunity. An adult PAL member, Adriana, says the class should be offered to more people, that participants are meeting people and that the class is free, and that coming to the class is the best part of the week.
Last updated March 22, 2026.
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