CYADP MISSION STATEMENT

The Coalition for Youth / Adult Diversion Program's mission is to bring awareness and to provide solutions to systemic racial injustice in the Green Bay and Brown County area. Through community collaboration, advocacy, mentor-ship, and education, the CYADP will divert young people from the traditional criminal justice system and will work to support and assist young people of color with an end goal of providing a fair and equal platform for all races. The mentorship and support of young people of color will strengthen the achievement of individual participants, which will in turn generate community diversity and prosperity.

 

YOUTH/ADULTS AGES 17-21

 

CYADP PURPOSE

• Coalition For Youth/Adult Diversion Programs, Inc. is a non-stock and non- profit corporation

and must be operated exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within the meaning of

Section 501(c)(3) of the InternalRevenue Code of 1986 as it now exists or may be amended.

• Coalition For Youth/Adult Diversion Programs provides intervention and mentoring to at-risk

youths and adults in order to develop solutions to divert at-risk youths and adults from

recidivism.

• The specific objectives and purpose of this organization include, but are not limited to, all

of the following:

  1. Work to identify the root cause(s) of what needs to be addressed to divert youths and adults

    from recidivism;

  2. Develop strategies, modalities, and programs that can be transferable and tangible within the

    growing needs of the communities affected by recidivism.

  3. Develop forms of communication and intervention that can be transferable and tangible to

    help drive higher employment engagement, social engagement, and youth leadership development

    within the growing needs of the communities affected by recidivism.

CURRENTLY,

the Coalition supports the Young Adult Specialty Court, and the pre-charging Diversion Program along with a mentoring component delivered by Better Days Mentoring to individuals ages 17 - 21. This mentoring program aims to address the known disproportionate impact that the criminal justice system has on people of color and people who come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The goal of these programs is to address root causes of the behaviors that bring young people into the criminal justice system, and to provide them with the resources and the tools to achieve successful outcomes within the system, but also well beyond.