Email:
info@yapinc.org
Administrative Offices:
3899 N. Front Street Harrisburg, PA 17110
(717)232-7580
Compliance Hotline:
1.800.324.57942
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High-impact social justice nonprofit that provides community-based alternatives to youth incarceration, congregate placements and neighborhood violence.
We promote divesting in facilities and investing in communities to create continuums of care capable of providing exactly what each person needs.
YAP provides young people, adults, and their families with intensive support right from where they live, learn, work and play through our YAPWrap model.
Our growing research base confirms that YAP is making a positive difference in the lives of young people, families and within the systems that support them.
100% of our programming occurs in the home communities of the people we serve.
YAP's blog features stories about families, advocates and program practitioners on the front lines of the youth justice, child welfare and social services systems reform movement.
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Press Release 04/08/22
Youth Advocate Programs are the county's greatest and best asset to redirect and change the lives of juveniles and their families
When I was in a facility, YAP was there to help me get out and go home.
You can’t leave a family or walk away and not have been changed... Change does happen and it happens with the kids most people do not want to work with. Those are our kids.
YAP’s approach is family focused. We not only work with the young person, but with their entire family. The family is going to be there long after we’re gone, so it’s essential that we work with the family from the onset.
I was… in foster homes. I was locked up for 18 months. It wasn’t very good… Because of YAP, my goals have become more obtainable. I always wanted to go to college and now I’m finally doing it.
I think what makes YAP so effective is their wraparound approach. They support kids on all these different levels at once, their neighborhoods, their schools, their families.