What do others say about YAC?
"The Youth Advocacy Center is a wonderful program that creates
positive outcomes in young people's lives."
~Commissioner
John Mattingly
NYC Administration of Children's Services
"Getting Beyond the System has been a great experience
for me. I feel that all the youth in the system should attend this
workshop. I learned a lot of useful information that I can apply
to my everyday life."
~Ashley,
GBS Graduate, Fall 2004
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  Mission
Mission Statement
Youth Advocacy Center’s mission is to teach young adults in and at
risk of foster care to advocate for themselves and take control of
their lives. Teens in and at risk of foster care have the desire,
talents and potential to be participating citizens - to hold jobs,
to play a role in their community, to live in safe neighborhoods and
to raise their children to be educated and healthy.
Youth Advocacy Center's Philosophy
Foster care youth and at risk adolescents are a large community of
disenfranchised citizens who have dreams and ambitions but lack the
access and resources to plan for their futures.
Each year, 25,000 young people age out of foster care systems to be
on their own. These young people are at a high risk of failure. Teens
leave the child welfare system unprepared to reach their potential.
Instead, they join the dismal statistics of those without high school
degrees, those in prison, those forced onto welfare.
Betsy Krebs and Paul Pitcoff, lawyers for children in family court,
founded Youth Advocacy Center (YAC) in 1992 because of a deep belief
in the aspirations and potential of teenagers in foster care. YAC
developed a philosophy and program of self-advocacy,
which empowers individual teens to take
on significant responsibility for planning for their futures.
Contact YAC to learn
more about YAC's success in helping teens in foster care prepare for
successful adulthood.
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