The Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (YASP) is a youth-led, intergenerational organization fighting to end youth incarceration, with a focus on eliminating the practice of charging children as adults. Our holistic approach supports young people impacted by the criminal legal system to express themselves creatively, to grow as leaders and to develop transformative possibilities in their communities and beyond. Together we implement alternatives for responding to harm and violence in Philadelphia and across the country while building towards our vision of a world without incarceration.

YASP also offers training in youth organizing and volunteer opportunities. To learn more about how you can get involved, please visit their website here.