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Youth Advocate Programs— YAP® for short— is a national nonprofit delivering and advocating for evidence-based services in homes and communities as a more effective alternative to youth incarceration and group child welfare, behavioral health, and intellectual disabilities placements. We also partner with public safety systems to help curb neighborhood violence.

YAP® recognizes generational and structural impacts on educational, employment, health, and other systems across the U.S. and globally. 

By redirecting justice, child welfare, behavioral health, and other social services dollars and resources from youth prisons and other residential facilities to communities where our program participants live, we are helping our systems partners achieve better service delivery and outcomes, which are strengthened with our evidence-based individual and family wraparound services model.

We hire neighborhood-based Advocates and mobile behavioral health professionals, which helps to keep local dollars and resources in the communities we serve. YAP Advocates are skilled in engaging youth and families. They meet program participants and their parents and guardians where they are and provide them with tools to lead and direct their individual and family service plans.
EmployerYouth Advocate Programs
Founded1975
HeadquartersHarrisburg, PA