East Oakland Boxing Association - Smartmoves

Intern leadership opportunities are made available for older youth through YEP, service-learning projects and paid high-school job-training internships.  Youth whom have been successfully and actively participating in the EOBA and Smartmoves Program and have proved their ability to be positive role-models are often offered an opportunity to train to become a paid youth intern. These youth will first volunteer as an Aspiring Intern where they learn the roles and responsibilities of being a staff member and work together to organize and lead activities for younger youth participants. Before each summer, each youth intern, Aspiring and paid, go through an intensive application and interview process where they learn life and career skills in the hopes of being selected to receive a paid stipend.

There are currently three paid and four Aspiring youth interns at the EOBA/ Smartmoves Program.  This number will increase to eight paid and five Aspiring youth interns during the summer program.