The Youth Anti-Prison Project (Y.A.P.P)

Youth are enrolled into initial 16 week trauma informed credible messenger training program with other Justice Impacted Young Adults & returning citizens. this infusion of community members allows Young Adults to have access to preventive services before they turn to survival methods of living.

• Immediate employment can make the difference in post incarceration redirection, upon enrollment Youth attending class & reporting to probation onsite are employed in the Young Adult Print Project

• immediate personal mentors can make the difference in making the vital decisions that impact their longer lives.
  

Y.A.P.P is an Alternative To Incarceration program that supports justice impacted young adults who are serving long community supervision sentences within the NYC area. YAPP  has several academies that retain them for the full years of their correctional sentences. YAPP houses, trains and employees NYC justice impacted young adults serving long term community supervision sentences for often 5 years.

In NYC youth by the thousands receive 6 months detained in a city jail cage & 5 years on probation & community supervision with no community support. We are building that very community that will house, employ and educate them for their entire community sentence.

Our  pedagogy is rooted in restorative justice practices, the non traditional approach to incarceration & interactive learning to support participants in  engaging deeply with the material and each other.
The college-level course covers trauma-informed care, youth  development, history of mass incarceration and a social justice framework, for career advancement.  Students engage in activities, role play exercises, and develop  lesson plans and strategies that they use in their daily work with young people while navigating them to health services. Each member is trained in preventive services, CPR, and  lifesaving skills that are needed within  the community when employed as peer navigators. Public Health Credible  Messenger are Peer Navigators  that will assist their neighborhood districts  to increase the health solutions & bring resources that lead to a reduction of violence. The Youth Anti-Prison Project (YAPP) is a project of the Incarcerated Nation Network.inc. in collaboration with - NY Black Panther Veterans - Young Lord Veterans - community & private partners.

Youth Anti-Prison Project - The Young Adult Perspective Project - Juvenile-In-justice - Incarcerated Nation Network
Presents:

FIRST ARRESTS

Introducing our newest project with inspiration from Five Mualimm-ak - FIRST ARRESTS, documenting the human stories of where it all begins; the first contact with policing and the justice system that defines relationships and understanding. Between 2013 and 2018 more than a quarter of a million children between 10-12 were arrested, 30,000+ were younger than 10. The number of children that are intimidated, stopped and cuffed without formal arrest, dwarfs these numbers. After age 12 these numbers only increase drastically, calling for change - and shaping the minds of our youth and setting the foreground for a relationship with justice in some form that causes undue harm. It’s our goal to humanize these stories and tell them broadly. We invite you to tell your own story as part of the larger mission of sharing the story of how youth come to know policing and confinement in America.

The Young Adult Perspective Project is a multiplatform SafeSpace for Young Adults to talk about their impact in the criminal justice system, from Young Adults for Young Adults. YAPP brings topics that impact Young Adults today to the frontline, healing takes understanding, Understanding begins with communication. #wemakechange by amplifying the valid voices of Justice Impacted Young Adults.
The Young Adult Perspective Project is a division of the Youth Anti Prison Project.

As a collaborative launch, The Incarcerated Nation Network,inc and Juvenile-In-Justice present a series of SafeSpaces that allow Young Adults to share their Perspectives on life, Incarceration, the injustice system, bought to you by Richard Ross & Five Mualimm-ak: FIRSTARRESTS