Summary: The Moreno Valley Youth Opportunity Center

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“The Moreno Valley Youth Opportunity Center gave me hope and motivation. Before I found you, I had given up. I thought that there was nothing out there for me. With your help I was able to get the training I needed to succeed. Training that I would have not got from anywhere else.” - Ebony, 23

If you ever have the pleasure of meeting Ebony, you would be greeted with the warmest smile and will be instantly captivated by her enthusiasm for life. It would be hard to imagine that just a few years ago she was feeling hopeless. Ebony faced several barriers, she was a single teenage mother of two children, homeless, unemployed, and did not know where to turn. When she came to the Moreno Valley YOC she found a new motivation to better her life for

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