With Support from his Advocate, this 17-Year-Old is Safely Home, Loving...
With conviction and a slight smile, 17-year-old Malachi posed for a press photographer as he held a cardboard handwritten Black Lives Matter sign. He...
Travontay Says He’s an Example that Communities Can Be their Own...
Seventeen-year-old Travontay proudly steps to the microphone at a Black Lives Matter rally in Lyons, NY. With a population of under 5,700 where everyone...
A Timely Report: National Human Services Assembly’s Roadmap for Reforming Youth...
by Jeff Fleischer, Youth Advocate Programs CEO/National Human Services Assembly Chair
The National Human Services Assembly (NHSA), in light of the George Floyd killing and...
Advocating for Youth and Helping Neighbors Unite at Juneteenth Black Lives...
Story by Dan Durocher, Lakeshore News: Reprinted with permission from Lakeshore News, WAYUGA Printing & Publishing
A Childhood Story Helped this Advocate Encourage and Engage Youth Through...
In a recent teleconference, Sarah Gross focuses on her origami, an ancient Japanese practice of shaping paper into art. On the other end of...
A Juneteenth Message to those Fighting to Free Youth from Prisons...
The following is a message to Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), Inc. employees from the organization's CEO, Jeff Fleischer. YAP is a national nonprofit in...
They Know Reinventing Systems is Possible. They’re Already Doing it.
(June 10, 2020) Every day, they’re in their neighbors’ homes, delivering rehabilitative services that would otherwise happen in youth prisons and congregate treatment facilities....
Advocates Thank Donors for Helping them Empower Youth and Families with...
Helping families with their basic needs is all in a day’s work for the Orange and Sullivan County (NY) Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), Inc....
Neighborly Support During Pandemic Brings New Promise to Baltimore’s Safe Streets...
Neighborly outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic is strengthening bonds between some Baltimore City Safe Streets workers and the families they serve.
Safe Streets is an...
She’s in a Wheelchair; He has Autism – Pandemic Opens New...
Melissa Johnson felt she’d finally made it when she earned her bachelor’s in psychology from Frostburg State University in Maryland. But when months turned...
Mini Parade Lifts Spirits of Homebound families
During a recent videoconference meeting, the Wayne County, NY Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), Inc. team resolved to do something big to motivate homebound families...
Meet Jesse A. Cruz, Author, Advocate and Brother’s Keeper
If you’ve ever met a Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), Inc. Advocate, you’ll understand the key to the organization’s effectiveness as a provider of community-based...
Youth Advocates Strengthen Family Bonds with Social Distancing Photo Challenge
Welcome to a virtual photo exhibit featuring Chemung County, NY Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), Inc.’s program participants, families and staff. Partnering with social services,...
Shifting Gears – From Face-to-Face to Virtual Community-based Youth Justice/Child Welfare...
By Jenilee Pollan, Assistant Program Director, Ulster County Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), Inc.
A huge focus of our work at Ulster County Youth Advocate Programs...
They Could have been in Youth Detention or Placement; Instead they’re...
Kingston, NY (April 22, 2020) – It’s Friday, going on 5 pm, and Cam, 15, Gabe, 12, Raymond, 14, and Stephen, 17, are in...
