Palm Beach County PAL

Week 2 of summer at our Lake Worth Beach site was a complete success! We hosted a water day, made possible by our awesome friends at Lake Worth Beach Fire Rescue, where our other PAL site locations joined in on the fun! 🚒💦 Swimming, the movies, an awesome afternoon at the Girls Ice Cream Parlor & Petting Zoo, attending the Lake Worth Beach Playhouse to see the production of Shrek JR & a day with First Tee for golf lessons made for an action packed week full of adventures & everlasting memories! 🦜🍨🎭⛳️😎 #Summer #MemoriesInTheMaking #LakeWorthBeachFireRescue #EveryKidNeedsAPAL #Adventures

Our annual PAL Summer Chartered Fishing Trip was so much fun! Special THANK YOU Tom Twyford with the West Palm Beach Fishing Club & The Palm Beach Fishing Foundation for taking our PAL youth out again this summer! 🎣⚓️ 🐟⛴️☀️ #WestPalmBeachFishingClub #PalmBeachFishingFoundation #Fishing #Summer #PALTradition #GreatCatch #EveryKidNeedsAPAL #NationalPAL

Our PAL Baseball 13u were invited to play in The Palm Beach Prospect Select Tournament this weekend. Not only did they battle the 100 degree heat for 3 days in a row, they dominated on the field walking away with the CHAMPIONSHIP! Please show them some love with the CONGRATULATIONS they deserve! 🏆 ⚾️🧢💫 #PALPride #PALBaseball #Champions #YouthSports #MLB #Tournament

This week’s National PAL Teen Mentoring Summit in Charlotte North Carolina focused on classes pertaining to Mentoring, Mental Health, Financial Literacy, Social Media Awareness, Networking, & Community Service Engagements. The Male & Female Motivational Guest Speaker Sessions were everyone’s favorite as our youth walked out inspired & ready to continue on their journeys as leaders within PAL! Thank you National PAL for all of the great classes! #NationalPAL #TeenMentoringYouthSummit #PALPride #YouthLeaders #TheNextGeneration

Our Cabana Colony site had the opportunity to visit PBSO’s Mounted Unit. Everyone learned about all of the care that goes into the horses, including their nutrition. Getting to pet them & the goats was everyone’s favorite. Thank you PBSO Mounted Unit for allowing our PAL youth to visit. It was an amazing time! #MountedUnit #PBSO #PBSOMountedUnit

Our adventures in North Carolina continued at Duke University where we toured the beautiful campus & athletic facilities. Our Teen Mentor Coordinator Leo & Rob, from our Westgate site, were given the opportunity to run the Duke track! Everyone decided at the end of the day that they were all going to be college bound students majoring in Engineering, Business, Law, & Pre-Med studies! #TheNextGeneration #CollegeBound #DukeUniversity #DukeUniversityBlueDevils #NationalPAL #PALPride

We can’t THANK Defensive Tackle Travis Shaw #4 enough for the VIP experience he gave our PAL youth today at The University North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Mr. Shaw set the tone spending 3 hours of his time showing us every inch of their football program facilities while instilling the message of education, respect of the sport & coaches while working towards achieving your dreams on and off the field. His message was as powerful as his plays are on the field. He had everyone captivated with every word spoken. Currently all are wanting to enroll at UNC today! #UNCFootball #UNC #TravisShaw #BeTheChange #Inspire #College #NFL #EveryKidNeedsAPAL #NationalPAL

Today 8 PAL youth flew to Charolette North Carolina attendingThe National PAL Teen Mentoring Summit. These 8 deserving youth were selected from each site based upon academics, athletics, and their commitment to mentor within PAL. Special THANK YOU to the American Airlines flight crew & pilots for the special tour of the cockpit & announcement on behalf of the youth that landed them a huge round of applause from every passenger on our flight! We explored the area, checked into our hotel, met up with some old PAL friends from around the U.S. and made some new ones! Everyone’s excited for the adventures to come this week so stay tuned… #NationalPAL #TeenMentoringSummit #AmericanAirlines #Adventures #EveryKidNeedsAPAL

The PAL sponsored Gators played in a Backwards K showcase tournament this past weekend in Newberry, FL. The girls played 5 games and put up 37 runs against their opponents, making some great defensive plays & hitting the ball very well. The girls were exposed to College coaches from many different schools. Looking forward to our next tournament in a few weeks in Viera, FL. #PalmBeachCountyPAL #Gators #PALPride #YouthSports #Tournament

Our Lake Worth Beach site had a busy first week including recycled arts & crafts, the movies to see Inside Out 2, roller skating, mini-golf, and swimming. Along with special visits from our PBSO Therapy Dog Unit, Tutoring with Miss Teresa, and a trip to The Benzaiten Center to do sand glass art. In our downtime we played board games making for the perfect week filled with fun! #Summertime #PALPride #EveryKidNeedsAPAL

Our PAL wrestlers from our Cabana site just attended the Florida Pride Wrestling Camp at Webber College in Babson Park. They had a great experience & learned lots of new techniques. Proud of these wrestlers for working hard in the offseason. We can see a huge improvement in them already! #PALWrestling #WrestlingCamp #PBCPALWrestling #PALBloodhounds #EveryKidNeedsAPAL

Our Cabana Colony site had the awesome opportunity to tour PBSO’s Aviation Unit. A big THANK YOU to the pilots for giving our PAL youth such insight to the amazing work they do day & night from the Eagle. We might have some future pilots in the making after this experience! 🚨🚁🌤️🦅🚨 #PBSOAviationUnit #Eagle #PBSOEagle #EyesInTheSky #EveryKidNeedsAPAL