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Youth Advocate Programs (YAP™), Inc. is the leading nonprofit provider of trauma-informed 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 out-of-home placement and to help make neighborhoods safer.
 
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3899 North Front St.
Harrisburg, PA 17110

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Our Services

  • Youth
    Justice
  • Child
    Welfare
  • Behavioral
    Health
  • Developmental Disabilities
    and Autism
  • Community Violence Intervention (CVI)
    and School Safety

Our unique, evidence-based individual and family YAPWrap™ Youth Justice model is a safer, more effective alternative to detention and incarceration and gives our Diversion program participants tools that keep them out of the system. Delivered by neighborhood-based Advocates, YAP’s unique community-based service delivery model empowers participants to see and nurture their strengths and addresses the economic, educational, and emotional needs of them and their families.

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YAP’s individualized Child Welfare services are community-based alternatives to group home placements. Using our strength-based YAPwrap™ services approach, we work with youth and their families, guardians and/or fictive kin, focusing on program participants’ safety, permanency, and well-being.

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YAP’s trauma-informed culturally/linguistically responsive Behavioral Health programs apply principes of our YAPWrap™ community-based services model. Receiving referrals from public and behavioral health systems as well directly from Medicaid-eligible families, our mobile services may include in-home and school-based programming, group therapy, youth empowerment services (YES Waiver), or intensive outpatient programming/day treatment.

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Applying principles from our YAPwrap™ services model, we provide community-based services for children and adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. Working with program participants and their families, we develop individualized service plans centered on meaningful decision-making, self-determination, and community inclusion, outside of residential facilities.

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Combining our YAPwrap™ individual and family wraparound services with public health Community Violence Intervention (CVI) approaches and/or trauma-informed therapeutic models, we serve youth and adults at the highest-risk of violence engagement, including gang-affiliated individuals, people returning from incarceration, and those who have recently lost a loved one to gun violence and might be at risk for retaliating.

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