University of Maryland Extension Center for Educational Partnership (CEP)
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Overview
The Center for Educational Partnership (CEP) is a cooperative space between the University of Maryland and the Maryland Multicultural Youth Center, constructed in a renovated warehouse owned by the University. The community center's goals are to support individual and group learning, growth, and advancement, and offers extended-day instruction, adult and teen education, on-site counselling, homework assistance, a bike maintenance program, two community gardens, and free food distribution. All of these programs work together to improve the area by providing a central location with so many resources close to the neighborhoods, eliminating travel time, cost, and energy, and additionally supporting the environment and reduced use via the bike maintenance and community garden programs.
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- Accokeek
- Clinton
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- Capitol Heights
- Capitol Heights
- Riverdale
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- Flagstaff
- United States
- CharlestonUnited States
- WheelingUnited States
- DaytonUnited States
- Taiwan
- GlasgowUnited Kingdom
- BothellUnited States
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- OaklandUnited States
- PereiraColombia
- San FranciscoUnited States
- new york, new york
- Jackson HeightsUnited States
- United States
- Alloa
- New York CityUnited States
- Malvern EastAustralia
- NobeltonCanada
- Taiwan
- OcracokeUnited States
- OaklandUnited States
- OaklandUnited States
- United Kingdom
- North CharlestonUnited States
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