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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 clubs and classes like art, outdoor sports, cooking, podcast, magazine, drumming, and financial literacy education for children in kindergarten through 8th grade. Workforce and career development services, career fairs, and paid internships for transition-aged youth are also part of the program, along with financial workshops for adults.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: After-school program operates Monday through Friday.
• Price: A class is described as free: "best of all the class is free."
PAL Center Youth Programs is part of PAL Center, which 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 program includes a flagship summer program called Summer Sunrise where youth in kindergarten through 8th grade explore interests in the form of clubs. In 2023, PAL Center developed the Purposeful Action, Creation & Engagement (PACE) program focusing on engaging opportunity youth ages 14–24 in culturally relevant, youth-centered, and strength-based activities, and it also offers the Redwood City Police Cadet Program for local teens and young adults to explore the vocation of law enforcement.
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 dialogue with law enforcement officials and other first responders and advances economic mobility through workforce and career development services, career fairs, and matching transition-aged youth with paid internships. PAL Center uses a Community Capitals Framework that invests in natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built capitals, and its mascot, Promise the Polar Bear, symbolizes strength, power, leadership, curiosity, learning, family, and togetherness.
One parent, Trina, says, “I have two kids at PAL. Having an after school program like PAL where they can be safe and have excellent mentors is amazing. Everyday they come home happy with some cool thing that they did or learned about.” A middle-school PAL student shares, “My favorite part would be my drumming class. I get to perform in front of people and I get to learn something new. I think it’s important because it lets kids socialize and try something new to see if you like it or not. I feel very lucky because a bunch of people don’t get that opportunity.” An adult PAL member, Adriana, says, “I think this class should be offered to more people because you are not just getting a workout or a good time or a dance, you are meeting people and best of all the class is free. Coming here is the best part of my week.”
Last updated June 21, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: After-school program operates Monday through Friday.
• Price: A class is described as free: "best of all the class is free."
PAL Center Youth Programs is part of PAL Center, which 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 program includes a flagship summer program called Summer Sunrise where youth in kindergarten through 8th grade explore interests in the form of clubs. In 2023, PAL Center developed the Purposeful Action, Creation & Engagement (PACE) program focusing on engaging opportunity youth ages 14–24 in culturally relevant, youth-centered, and strength-based activities, and it also offers the Redwood City Police Cadet Program for local teens and young adults to explore the vocation of law enforcement.
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 dialogue with law enforcement officials and other first responders and advances economic mobility through workforce and career development services, career fairs, and matching transition-aged youth with paid internships. PAL Center uses a Community Capitals Framework that invests in natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built capitals, and its mascot, Promise the Polar Bear, symbolizes strength, power, leadership, curiosity, learning, family, and togetherness.
One parent, Trina, says, “I have two kids at PAL. Having an after school program like PAL where they can be safe and have excellent mentors is amazing. Everyday they come home happy with some cool thing that they did or learned about.” A middle-school PAL student shares, “My favorite part would be my drumming class. I get to perform in front of people and I get to learn something new. I think it’s important because it lets kids socialize and try something new to see if you like it or not. I feel very lucky because a bunch of people don’t get that opportunity.” An adult PAL member, Adriana, says, “I think this class should be offered to more people because you are not just getting a workout or a good time or a dance, you are meeting people and best of all the class is free. Coming here is the best part of my week.”
Last updated June 21, 2026.
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