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Youth Advocacy Project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephanie Burrows)
Fri May 10 15:47:24 2002
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Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:47:19 -0400
From: Stephanie Burrows <syburrow@MIT.EDU>
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Hi everyone,
I thought some of you might be interested in this information about the
Massachusetts Youth Advocacy Project. This program is in danger of
being cut.
Stephanie Burrows
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Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 10:30:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gail Nia King <gnking1@yahoo.com>
Hi all,
If you are a resident of Mass or know someone who
is,we need your help. I have been working with a
program
called the Youth Advocacy Project (YAP) for the past
year. We are a state agency that was just slashed in
the recent budget cuts. Thus we desperately needs
your help. Unless House Amendment #709J is passed,
YAP will cease to exist.
We need MA residents to contact (phone or email)their
state rep and request that he/she support the
Amendment #709J which will reinstate YAP's full budget
and eliminate the requirement that we raise matching
funds from private foundations. As hard as we work to
find other resources and funding, private foundations
are not willing to pay to cover government services.
So please take 30 seconds to contact your state rep on
the matter.
http://www.state.ma.us/legis/memmenuh.htm
(list of all of the Representatives and their phone
numbers and email addresses.)
This site will tell you who your representative is if
you don't already know. You can look it up by town
and precinct:
http://www.state.ma.us/legis/citytown.htm
To search for your MA representatives by address, go
here:
http://www.secstate.isaka.net/magov/search_form.php
Some words from our ED...
"Starting from modest beginnings in 1992, YAP has
grown into a National model for child advocacy
(recognized by the Department of Justice, American Bar
Association, and National Legal Aid and Defender
Association). As Commonwealth Magazine said in 2000,
our clients don't just get off, they get help. Every
year YAP lawyers and social workers make sure that
hundreds of Boston's neediest children receive both
first rate legal services and first rate intervention
services. By working to divert children from lives of
chronic court involvement, we also save the state
millions of dollars. Beds in both juvenile and adult
correctional facilities cost upwards of $30,000 per
year. An individual life of crime has been estimated
to cost tax payers upwards of $2,000,000. Supporting
YAP is a truly cost effective and meaningful way to
invest in our children and our future."
http://www.youthadvocacyproject.org
Thank you,
Gail N. King
