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Virtual forum next week will explore youth justice reforms, recommendations for changes Updated Feb 18, 2021; Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), Inc., headquartered in Harrisburg, is one of the sponsors for a unique public web event next week that will highlight how a community-based, love-centered continuum of care can serve as an alternative to ineffective youth justice approaches that disproportionately harm Black and Brown youth. The virtual forum will run from noon to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 25 and will feature leading U.S. youth justice leaders and advocates in addition to a young man who delivers ...

Michigan program seeks alternatives to youth incarceration Associated Press Tags:  Michigan (WDIV) LANSING, Mich. – A program that seeks community-based alternatives to the practice of locking up youth offenders or placing them in rehabilitation facilities outside their homes has come to communities in Michigan. The nonprofit Youth Advocate Programs is working with Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services on the effort in Saginaw, Mecosta, Osceola, Ogemaw, Roscommon, Isabella and Clare counties. Funding from Ballmer Group to Youth Advocate Programs Inc., is helping with startup...