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  • Help YAP Families Affected by Hurricane Harvey

    Many YAP kids and families in East Texas and Louisiana are suffering from the effects of Hurricane Harvey. We have set up a page on our website for donations. Your contribution will help support our families in supplying their basic needs for food, shelter, and safety.

    Hurricane Harvey

  • Endowment Fund Reaches $1M

    YAP is firmly committed to nurturing the potential of "Opportunity Youth" through our direct services and through our Tom Jeffers Endowment Fund for Continuing Education. 63 scholarships have been awarded since 2007.

    Endowment

  • YAPWORX: Workforce Development 2.0

    YAP engages the most complex need youth in and outside of the classroom through service learning and exposure to employees from labor market areas of interest.

    YAPWorx

  • Pittverse Magazine

    YAP is proud to share the latest version of this quarterly publication written exclusively by adults on the autism spectrum and funded by the Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust.

    Pittverse
  • Peace Street

  • Street Soccer

    Innovative Street Soccer programming encourages positive youth development and promotes a culture of peace.

    Soccer

  • Dads Make a Difference!

    YAP's NJ Fatherhood Healthy Relationships Initiative is a statewide effort to recognize and support the important role of Dads in their children's development. #NJFathersMatter

    Fatherhood

  • Meeting the Needs of Sexually Exploited Youth

    YAP’s CSEC model is an intensive and safe alternative to detention or placement, integrating a trauma- informed, gender responsive approach in supporting youth aged 10-18 who have been sexually trafficked.

    CSEC
About Us
YAP is a nationally recognized, nonprofit organization exclusively committed to the provision of community-based alternatives to out-of-home care through direct service, advocacy and policy change since 1975.   More
"Safely Home" Film

Change does happen and it happens with the kids people most likely do not want to work with... Those are our kids.

April Curtis, YAP Program Director
NEWS
19
SEP 2017

YAP Saves PA Taxpayers $400,000

YAP's partnership with Lebanon County PA resulted in savings for taxpayers while maintaining community safety...
20
JUL 2017

CBS Pittsburgh Interviews YAP Magazine Writers

The Pittverse a quarterly magazine written exclusively by adults with autism, is featured in this news report...
22
JUN 2017

YAP'S Place in Virginia's Changing Juvenile Justice System

Valerie Koeppel, Roanoke Program Director spoke to a local Virginia television station about the changes in their juvenile justice system and how YAP can help...
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