Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. will hold the sessions later this week in Baltimore for 40 of its trainees.
Members of Youth Advocate Programs Inc.'s neighborhood-based 'Dallas Cred' violence interrupters team pose for a photo.Violence interrupters from cities across the United States will gather this week in Baltimore with their national program leadership for unique Hands-On Training classes.
Youth Advocate Programs. Inc. is a national nonprofit in 32 states and the District of Columbia that has a 46-year history of reducing recidivism and keeping communities safer by delivering effective, more racially equitable community-based services as an alternative to youth incarceration and congregate child welfare and behavioral health placements.
The organization combines evidence-based violence interruption models with its own evidence-based wraparound services model of hiring and training neighborhood-based Advocates and behavioral health professionals to deliver youth and family services. These empower program participants with tools to see their strengths and achieve positive goals.
Hiring violence interrupters “credible messengers” is the latest trend in public safety systems reform, said Kelly Williams, YAP’s chief communications officer. “While several local nonprofits are doing this work, YAP is the only national nonprofit doing it.
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