Support Youth Intervention! by Scott Beaty, YIPA's Executive Director

How many of you have used GiveMN for your organization or given to your favorite cause with GiveMN’s easy online system? This year, YIPA’s Annual Donor Campaign is at GiveMN.org!! The most positive benefit of GiveMN is that it covers all transaction costs with the help of partners and funders so that 100% of donations go directly to charity. Whereas many online payment processing organizations charge between 2.5 and 4 percent transaction fee, GiveMN gives the entire transaction feedback to the nonprofit.

Supporting YIPA means supporting its dozens of member organizations and the thousands of young people that they serve.

When a young person embraces a life of crime it costs society millions of dollars, gives families a lifetime of heartbreak, and destroys the future of kids. Early youth intervention programs help kids at the first sign of trouble by providing them with the help and resources they need to lead a fulfilling life! In 2009, early youth intervention programs kept 89% of the youth referred for illegal activities from further involvement in the juvenile justice system. All from programs that cost on average $200 per youth per year compared to $40,000 per youth per year in a juvenile detention facility.

YIPA is the premier organization in Minnesota whose mission is to insure that every youth has access to the highest quality early youth intervention programs to ensure they have a successful future! YIPA consists of over 90 early youth intervention programs providing counseling, mentoring, education, prevention, pre-court diversion, job skills preparedness, anger management, conflict resolution, and mediation services to over 50,000 youth per year.

YIPA:

· Advocates for support of early youth intervention at state and local levels;

· Provides the highest quality training programs to ensure the best services for our kids, helps families better access the kind of care that is right for their child; and,

· Creates a voice for youth in Minnesota.

YIPA’s work is crucial more than ever: state budget cuts threaten to eliminate valuable programs that impact thousands of youth and a struggling economy has severely impacted programs’ budgets leading to decreased services to our youth.

A donation of just $200 is enough to help a kid stay out of jail, get back to school, improve their self-confidence, and begin to see that there is hope for the future!

Please visit http://givemn.razoo.com/story/Yipa-s-Annual-Campaign-A-Voice-For-Youth-3 to give today!