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Press Releases and Articles

News_icon-150x150 YES PR - YES Names Janet Randolph as Board President - December 8, 2025

News_icon-150x150 Orange Coast Magazine: Driven O.C. Twins Get Help Landing First Jobs From Youth Employment Service in Costa Mesa - November 18, 2025

News_icon-150x150 YES PR - YES Salutes Mother’s Market, Starbucks - October 20, 2025

News_icon-150x150 Senior Reporter: Busy Boomers - September 2016

News_icon-150x150 YES PR - YES Celebrates Distinguished Orange County Employers - September 1, 2026

News_icon-150x150 Kaiser Permanente Announces Community Benefit Grants to Local Organizations - Fall 2016

News_icon-150x150 Huntington Beach Students Get Employment-ready! - May 2016

News_icon-150x150 Heart of Hoag: Hoag Says YES to Supporting Youth Employment Service - February 2016

News_icon-150x150 LA Times Around Town: 6 students awarded scholarships at YES event - November 10, 2025

News_icon-150x150 YES PR - YES Celebrates 45 Years Serving OC Youth - November 10, 2025

News_icon-150x150 LA Times: YES marks 45 years of employing Mesa youths - October 21, 2025

News_icon-150x150 YES PR - Weeks Named New Executive Director - March 31, 2026

News_icon-150x150 YES PR - S. Mark Taper Foundation Grant - March 10, 2026

News_icon-150x150 Orange County Register 5_8_14 - YES Roman Feast

News_icon-150x150 Orange County Register 9_25_13 - YES Reopens

News_icon-150x150 YES PR - YES Grand Reopening 9_23_13

News_icon-150x150 YES PR - Open House 9_16_13

News_icon-150x150 YES PR - Closed for Renovations 8_22_13

News_icon-150x150 YES PR - Non-Profit Helps Turn Ice Cream Job Into Cornell Education 2_13_13

News_icon-150x150 YES Roman Feast Press Release 1_22_13

Radio

KSBR Radio Interview with YES Executive Director Wendy Weeks and Board President John Hobson

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KOCI Sunday Brunch Radio Interview with YES President John Hobson

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KOCI Radio Interview with YES President John Hobson and YES Vice President

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Radio Interview with YES Director and one of our YES Youth

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"Youth Employment Service is a guardian angel for youth looking for a job. All the jobs that YES has are jobs that teenagers can really do. I just wanted to say thank you from all of my heart for the kindness, care and generosity you have shown me."

Shayna

"They teach you how to be responsible, how to be a better person, and how to prepare for the future."

Sergio

"At school, an older friend of mine told me about YES, that she was going there, and that I should come along, so I did. The first thing I saw when I walked in that door were all those multi-colored job postings and my heart soared. I knew that in an assortment that big I was bound to find something regardless of my age.

"YES was not just a service I used, but there were people there who remembered my name and talked to me about everything…They taught me the basics of professionalism and helped me get numerous jobs."

Antje