Fairfield PAL announces upcoming events

Fairfield PAL announces upcoming events--just the building is closed!

The PAL Center is currently closed due to COVID-19, but is supporting members through virtual programs and a food pantry. Thanks to a generous grant from the Solano Community Foundation, PAL has been hosting a variety of programs online since June.

Pringles and Paint Night: The Museum Series

Learn to paint like the masters! Recreate the Eiffel Tower by Georges Seurat on real artist canvas….and snack on some Pringles to keep your creative juices going! This paint by numbers project will have you creating work that any artist will be proud of—as you check in with your friends and hang out together over Zoom. This program requires advanced registration to ensure you get your supplies. Space is limited—so please register early!

Virtual Escape the Room

Get ready to have an a-MAZING time with your friends as you race to solve the clues, figure the riddles, and answer the questions in time for you and your team to Escape the Room! Join forces with new and old friends to find hidden clues, solve puzzles, and unravel a mystery before time runs out! This remote adventure will give you the ability to connect and play---no matter where you are in the world!

A STEP A HEAD: Zombie Walk Challenge

Join us for a fitness you can do anywhere—while you rid the planet of zombies! The Outbreak is a team-based, step and exercise challenge that tasks surviving in the harsh world of a zombie outbreak using real-world steps and physical activity. Standard prescription for steps and exercise to progress through the game is 6,000-12,000 steps per day, 40-85 exercise minutes per week. This step-based challenge requires a fitness tracker. If you do not have access to one on your Apple / Android phone, please reserve one by calling 707 422 6288. This is a two-week mission.

Ready to Succeed / Winning the College Game

Winning The College Game is a 12 week program that is based on the curriculum for the award-winning Freshman Seminar Sharon Padilla-Alvarado designed at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, California (which has been identified as one of the top 10 most diverse public two-year colleges in the U.S.). Workshops topics include: Why You Should Play the College Game, Know the Rules fo the Game (the difference between highs school and college), Have a Game Plan, Things that Throw Off You Game (Barriers to Academic Success), Play to Win, You’ve Got To Pay to Play (financial literacy), Strategies for Winning the College Game, Play Fair, Play Well, Keeping on Winning, Stay in the Game, Play for Life (developing transferable skills). Winning the College Game is part of the PAL Ready To Succeed series that is required for any PAL members wishing to apply for the Fairfield / Suisun Rotary Success Scholars. Offered via Zoom. Must sign up to attend.

GIRLS CIRCLE

Girl’s Circle is a structured support group for girls and youth who identify with female development, integrates relational theory, resiliency practices, and skills training in a specific format designed to increase positive connection, personal and collective strengths, and competence in girls. This Circle will explore Peer Relationships. Over 10 weeks, the circle will enhances girls'' awareness of their relationships with themselves and others. Themes include "Expressing Myself," "Accepting Different Parts of Myself," "Giving Voice to Feelings,” Romantic Relationships,” “Girlfights or Girlfriends” and are complimented by activities such as journaling, role-play, sculpting, and more.

Offered in partnership with the Soroptimist International of Central Solano County. Space is limited, please call 422 6288 to save your seat!

Cooking with Cans! FOOD PANTRY FRIDAY Cooking with Mrs. Fatima

Check out the PAL Instagram Stories every Friday at 4pm to see what you can “whip up” using supplies available for FREE at the PAL Student Food Pantry. The first 5 PAL members to mention the dish when they schedule their food pantry appointment, win a $25 gift certificate to Grocery Outlet, Fairfield.

Student Food Pantry

Together with Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, PAL invites ANY local student to make an appointment to pick up FREE pantry items to take home. Items include mac & cheese, cereals, peanut butter, ravioli, soups, canned fruit and more! To honor social distancing, the Food Pantry requires an appointment to pick a box. Call 422 6288 to make your reservation!

The Fairfield PAL Program is open to Fairfield, Suisun, and Travis Students enrolled ages 13-18 who are enrolled in school. Memberships are FREE and can be applied for at the Fairfield Community Center (1000 Kentucky Street) Mon-Thursday between 11:30-5:30pm.

PAL uses traditional recreational programming to create an environment that draws young people to support the development of the social and emotional skills required to promote a positive self-identity and become productive and engaged members of our community. By offering teens programs they are interested in and choices, it becomes possible to slip in pro social skill building and development utilizing youth development practices and techniques.

The services provided by PAL are more than fun and games. These programs—which are organized, structured, and adult-supervised or led—provide excellent opportunities for teens to develop and grow to become fully functioning adults. Participation in these activities is associated with autonomy and identity development, positive social relationships, and learning conflict resolution, academic success, mental health, and civic engagement. At PAL, recreational programs become the gateway to social and emotional skill building and development to help teens thrive.

For more information about these PAL activities, please call 707-422-6288 or visit the program’s webpage at www.fairfield.ca.gov/pal under the Quick Links or follow us in real time by visiting the program’s Facebook page at @Fairfieldpal1, Twitter at @pal-fairfield, and Instagram at ff_pal_center.