Youth Advocacy Project

The lawyers of the CPCS Youth Advocacy Project (YAP) represent children in delinquency and youthful offender cases.  Founded in 1992, and located in the CPCS Roxbury office, YAP has become a nationally recognized model program for how public defender offices can provide legal representation to indigent children.  Combining talented criminal trial lawyers, education lawyers, and highly skilled social service professionals (staff forensic child psychologists, social workers, and a community liaison), YAP brings a multi-disciplinary team to its representation of children.  Not only does YAP strive for the best possible case result, but also it seeks to identify and meet the underlying issues--emotional, psychological and educational--that burden so many urban children growing up in poverty.  In a very real way, YAP is an important part of reducing crime and violence in children’s lives and in communities. 

For more information on YAP, go to:  http://www.youthadvocacyproject.org.