YAP® Making Change Happen Awards Gala – Photo Album & Video

Philadelphia, Pa. – Youth Advocate Programs (YAP®), Inc., celebrated five decades of serving as the nation’s premier nonprofit provider of community-based alternatives to youth incarceration and residential care with its YAP® Making Change Happen Awards Gala on Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown. 

The event featured Judge Glenda Hatchett, star of two-time Emmy-nominated “Judge Hatchett” and “The Verdict with Judge Hatchett,” and a former Chief Judge of the Fulton County Juvenile Court in Georgia. The evening brought together youth justice, child welfare, mental health, and public safety practitioners, researchers, and former YAP® program participants. It also honored YAP® pioneers and other American changemakers, including Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott, whose work has led to stronger outcomes with safer and less costly justice, family, and public safety services. 

YAP® partners with youth justice, child welfare, education, developmental disabilities, behavioral health, and other youth and family services systems in communities in 32 states and Washington D.C. YAP®’s decades of service include working with many young people whose histories include serious offenses, multiple arrests, and lengthy out-of-home placements. For more information on YAP®, visit yapinc.org.

Photos and video by Keystone Productions.