50th Anniversary YAP Making Change Happen Summit and Awards Gala

This daylong experience will be a rare convening of national and global changemakers whose interconnected work is making youth justice, criminal justice/re-entry, child welfare, behavioral health, public safety, and other systems more effective. The 50th Anniversary YAP® Making Change Happen Summit and Awards Gala will elevate the evolving collective energy that has fueled YAP’s 50 years of delivering and advocating for community-based alternatives to youth prisons, group homes, and residential care, and addressing individualized needs of those at the highest risk of engaging in violence. Panelists, speakers, and attendees will represent a spectrum of practitioners, policymakers, researchers, corporate responsibility leaders, workforce development innovators, behavioral health experts, housing pathfinders, educators, foundation visionaries, activists, artists, intellectuals, and other continuum of care trailblazers, as well as people with lived experience, including current and former YAP participants and their families. The Awards Gala is YAP’s opportunity to honor visionaries who laid the foundation of…