Join us on the evening of November 6, 2025 for the 50^th Anniversary YAP^® Making Change Happen Awards Gala, our celebration of changemakers behind the collective energy that has fueled YAP’s 50 years of partnering with local governments, schools, behavioral health providers, and more recently, public safety systems to give young people and families facing life’s most complex challenges individualized economic, educational and emotional tools to thrive.

About YAP^®: Founded in 1975, Youth Advocate Programs (YAP^®), Inc. is the leading nonprofit provider of services that reduce the nation’s overreliance on youth incarceration, residential care, and group home foster placements. We partner with public systems to provide community-based wraparound and behavioral health services as an alternative to placing young people in trouble or crisis is residential care and corrections facilities. We also incorporate our time-tested model in our approach to deliver community violence intervention services. Our unique YAPWrap^® service model, capacity building, and policy work make us an innovator in transforming systems.

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Location: Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown, 201 North 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA

Schedule:

Awards Gala Reception: 6:00pm – 6:30pm

Awards Gala: 6:30pm – 9:00pm