YASP

The Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (YASP) is a youth-led organization building a movement to end the practice of trying youth as adults in PA.

[Amistad Law Project @AmistadLaw]

We stand with the #CommutationNow campaign in calling on @JoshShapiroPA to get the PA Board of Pardons back on track! Shapiro promised to support second chances, but far fewer people have been commuted under his admin compared to Gov. Wolf.

Sign petition: https://t.co/0rREghh388

[Councilmember Rue Landau @RuePhilaCouncil]

A statement from Councilmember Rue Landau and Councilmember Jamie Gauthier.

[YASP @YASP2]

Want to get to know us in person and help us send some love to YASP community members who are incarcerated this holiday season? Join us Thursday 12/12 at our office for a card writing party! 🩵

[YASP @YASP2]

Whether you've been with us since the beginning or you've just learned about us recently, you may not know all of what we are up to here at YASP. Allow us to reintroduce ourselves!

[YASP @YASP2]

Over the next two months as we work to raise $20,000 to support our goals for 2025, we want to invite you to get to know us and our work a little better.

Follow along here, or head to https://t.co/eIR8dkROjH to donate today 💜

[YASP @YASP2]

From all of us at YASP, THANK YOU so much to the folks who helped sustain our work through the last year.

Thanks to all of you, we are ready to close this year strong with a lot of exciting updates to share, and we're really looking forward to what is ahead in the year to come.

[StoneleighFoundation @StoneleighFdn]

Join us and @YASP2 on 2/7 for a conversation about building youth-led movements through art, organizing, and creating non-carceral responses to harm and violence. Register here: https://t.co/YGQDqnAQmJ

[YASP @YASP2]

Check out our youth leaders with the @CareNotControl squad in Harrisburg today! #YouthPower #YouthLeaders #TreatKidsAsKids #FreeOurYouth

[YASP @YASP2]

Thank you @senbartolotta for calling for an end to prosecuting children as adults in PA at today's #PAYouthSafetyCaucus press conf, and highlighting that direct file is a "staggering waste of money and human resources". We must #TreatKidsAsKids in PA! #carenotcontrol

[YASP @YASP2]

@BookshopMassive @BigMeanInternet Thank you so much for the support @BigMeanInternet + @BookshopMassive! 💖

[YASP @YASP2]

Let this be the year we end direct file and finally #TreatKidsAsKids in PA! Thank you, @senbartolotta @SenTonyWilliams + @SenatorHughes for your leadership in fighting for this critical, common sense change in Harrisburg! #CareNotControl #NoKidsInPrison

https://t.co/t8nLhy54Wg

[YASP @YASP2]

This #GivingTuesday, we're launching an ambitious fundraising drive to help us sustain + grow our groundbreaking #HealingFutures restorative justice work in 2023. Please take a minute to donate! https://t.co/gBhsebc9WE

[DayOneNotDayTwo @DayOneNotDayTwo]

Don’t Let Them Fool You, It’s A Numbers Game
But I Am More Than A Number
You Are More Than A Number
We Are More Than A Number ✊🏾

[YASP @YASP2]

Thank you for your leadership on this, @senbartolotta! We know keeping children out of adult courts + prisons makes all of our communities safer in the long run.

[Senator Camera Bartolotta @senbartolotta]

Thank you to @WmBrangham of @NewsHour for highlighting this important issue and my legislative proposal which is intended to end the automatic charging of juveniles as adults in certain crimes. https://t.co/0ushve62Ay

[YASP @YASP2]

Thank you for the excellent coverage of the movement to end direct file in PA @NewsHour, and big appreciation to @senbartolotta for your leadership on this critical issue! #TreatKidsAsKids #NoKidsInPrison #PassSB1240 #CareNotControl

https://t.co/5VlwWCsiOf

[YASP @YASP2]

Thanks for sharing @svdebug!

[SV De-Bug @svdebug]

Powerful call by @DayOneNotDayTwo and David of @YASP2 family to end transfers of youth into the adult carceral system in Pennsylvania and everywhere!!!Feature on @PBS

https://t.co/ZJf9ASI1hr

[Susan Vivian Mangold @susanvmangold]

Excellent coverage of our work to end direct file of youth in adult court featuring @JuvLaw1975 @YASP2 @senbartolotta. #juvenilejustice #carenotcontrol
https://t.co/ryuODE6Siy

[YASP @YASP2]

Powerful coverage of our work to end direct file, keep young people out of adult courts and #TreatKidsAsKids in Pennsylvania, featuring YASP leaders David + Andre, aka @DayOneNotDayTwo! @CareNotControl @JuvLaw1975 #YouthJustice #NoKidsinPrison #PassSB1240

https://t.co/5VlwWCsQDN

[Care, Not Control @CareNotControl]

#CareNotControl and @YASP2’s Andre Simms, aka @DayOneNotDayTwo, + the Ascension Project will host ☮️Pushing Peace ☮️: A Showcase to Save the Streets this Friday, 10/14, at 7 p.m. at Sera Phi (939 N Front St) 📍

[Care, Not Control @CareNotControl]

That’s the message that #CareNotControl and @YASP2’s Andre Simms, aka @DayOneNotDayTwo, says he hopes people take away from #Delirium, his song from #CareNotControlTheAlbum, which addresses the horrors of solitary confinement. The track comes out tomorrow!