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Ocelotl’s Community Corp Program is funded entirely through donations from community members, events and sales in our storefront space at 343 15th Street in downtown Oakland. The curriculum for this program was designed and in operation well before Ocelotl became a non-profit in 2020, created with the conviction that meaningful work can be utilized as a mental health strategy to build esteem, efficacy, and a sense of purpose that exponentially benefits the community and the young people we serve. The internships offer 100 hours of work-based learning experience in a supportive environment serving the community at a rate of $20 per hour to earn $2K. The model that supports this paid learning experience is part of the core values that resonate through all of our programming, most well known as the sustainable models of Peer Mentoring, and Language Navigators still in operation at Madison Park Academy 6-12 for a decade now.
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