2019 Back to School Festival & Rally | Oakland
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Oakland City Hall | 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA
Free / RSVP
Submitted by the Event Organizer
On Saturday, August 3, 2019 from 7 am to 5 pm, Oakland Natives Give Back will host the 12th Annual “Attend & Achieve Back to School Event.”
The Back-to-School Rally is designed for community engagement, fun, inspiration and most importantly, to prepare families to blast into the school year ready to succeed.
This year, they’ll provide under-resourced Oakland youth with:
- 250 student bus passes
- 1000+ pairs of shoes
- 1000+ students backpacks filled with age-appropriate school supplies
- and more…
The main focus for the Attend & Achieve Back to School event is to promote the importance for students to attend school on a regular basis.
Event attendees will have access to:
- Parenting and academic achievement workshops and Academic Workshops for students including:
- Middle School – Bullying, personal hygiene, mapping out educational goals
- High School – Instilling confidence and stepping out of their comfort zones, staying in school, overcoming hardships in healthy ways, motivating students, safe relationships and sex awareness
- College readiness resources
- Information about reducing truancy and chronic absenteeism
- Free preventative health-care and information about community health-care resources
The event also features celebrity appearances, speakers, performances, free food and a range of prizes.
Please consider volunteering for this event- Volunteer Registration
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE*
