Adams County Team YAP volunteered Saturday, September 16th at the local United Way's "Day of Caring." The Team helped pack 650 "ready-to-learn" backpacks that will be distributed to children ages 3-5 attending Head start, Pre-Count classrooms, and early learning centers serving low income families throughout Adams County.YAP families Pictured left to right: Amy Charland BSC, and her son Matthew Charland; and daughter Grace Witt and father Gary Witt of York and Adams Count...

Harris County Advocate Program and YES Waiver Program collaborated to provide a “Back to School Bash” for their local community.  The event was a big success.  Youth gained additional knowledge on conflict resolution for the school year, alcohol prevention, positive affirmations, social skills, and anxiety management techniques.  Advocates engaged their young people in various activities and really supported the excitement of starting another school year. Addition...

A group of youth and advocates from Roanoke YAP gathered to clean up a local community park.  

Youth, families and staff from YAP's program in Brazos County TX honored Earth Day by picking up trash in the block around their program office. Together they were able to collect 10 bags of trash and learn a little about Earth day and social responsibilities.

Ulster County YAP teamed up with local business in an effort to collect new toys from community members. Multiple local businesses agreed to display gift drop boxes for three weeks and were able to accrue more than $300 worth of gifts for youth ranging in ages from 1 to 18.After the gifts were collected, YAP youth met at the program office and wrapped all of the donated gifts.Local firefighters who were running a toy drive happily accepted the collected the gifts from the youth on December 21st....