YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. Youth Peace Advocacy & Education through its Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council has been advocating for youth peace on the Korean Peninsula. YA! had two commentaries published publicly in May 2020 in the Peninsula Report. Both are included in this report.
"An alternative peace plan for the Koreas: A youth-centered approach" May 11 2020
"Building Peace: The Humanitarian Priority" May 22, 2020
YA! is also digitizing all 90 units YouthAlert! (YA!) Child and Youth Peace Program for viewing on YouTube. The first one entitled "how bullying affects children" is now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRd3gcxJPA
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What We Do - We believe the best stepping stone to world peace is by achieving "youth peace" first. We work to end the "War Against Youth" and "Youth vs. Youth Wars."
We Advocate - YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. advocates for "youth peace" programs and initiatives. We advocate with the United Nations and all 193 United Nation Member States. We also advocate with the U.S. Federal Government, State, and Local Governments. YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. - Win The War! Against Violence, has Special Consultative Status to the United Nation’s (U.N.) Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
We have been successful in getting "youth peace" initiatives passed in the U.N. General Assembly, including the "Rights of the Child" resolution and safe school legislation passed in the U.S. Congress including the ``STOP School Violence Act of 2018.''
We Educate - YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. created the YouthAlert! (YA!) Child and Youth Peace Program. "Survive & Thrive" Skills Training for Children and Youth. A School-Based Universal Violence Prevention Education Curriculum which is also available for Out-Of-School Time. We have instructed over 10,000 youth with a 97% favorable rating among both instructors and youth in U.S. public schools.
About Us - YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. - War Against Violence Corp., a U.S. non-profit corporation created on March 14, 2008, is a group of adult and youth volunteers whose goal is to help all youth "survive and thrive."
"We believe all youth are equal in meaning, importance, value, and worth and that it is all youth's destiny to live a long and healthy life."
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YouthAlert! (YA!) Child &Youth Peace Program - Effective Violence, Bully Prevention/Mental Health Education and Training for Children and Youth is still available throughout the U.S.A.. It is a School-Based Program/In-Person Survive & Thrive Health Education Supporting State Standards. It is also an Out-Of-School Time (OST) Program In-Person Survive & Thrive Skills Training. OST costs are:
1 Hour Interactive Presentation - $250 Subjects are: Violence, Bullying, Self-Harm, Kindness
2 Hour Interactive Presentation - $375 Added Subjects: Shadow Violence, Substance Abuse, Vaping, Accidents
3 Hour Interactive Presentation - $500 Added Subjects: Weapons, Media, LGBTQ/Gender, Empowerment
YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. also continues to advocate for school-based Universal Violence Prevention Education in international at the United Nations, nationally in Washington, D.C. and in U.S. state legislative bodies.
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YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. - Win The War! Against Violence, a U.S. Nonprofit Organization with Special Consultative Status to the United Nation’s Economic and Social Council.
YouthAlert! (YA!) Child &Youth Peace Program - Effective Violence, Bully Prevention/Mental Health Education and Training for Children and Youth is still available throughout the U.S.A.. It is a School-Based Program/In-Person Survive & Thrive Health Education Supporting State Standards. It is also an Out-Of-School Time (OST) Program In-Person Survive & Thrive Skills Training. OST costs are:
1 Hour Interactive Presentation - $250 Subjects are: Violence, Bullying, Self-Harm, Kindness
2 Hour Interactive Presentation - $375 Added Subjects: Shadow Violence, Substance Abuse, Vaping, Accidents
3 Hour Interactive Presentation - $500 Added Subjects: Weapons, Media, LGBTQ/Gender, Empowerment
YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. also continues to advocate for school-based Universal Violence Prevention Education in international at the United Nations, nationally in Washington, D.C. and in U.S. state legislative bodies.
Donate Now to help us continue our work saving youth!
YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. - Win The War! Against Violence, a U.S. Nonprofit Organization with Special Consultative Status to the United Nation’s Economic and Social Council.
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YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. and the YouthAlert! (YA!) Violence Prevention Education Program, "Survive & Thrive" Skills Training for Children and Youth is very active in the State of Florida. The three counties of greatest focus are Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach County. All in southeast Florida.
The program is EFFECTIVE” universal, cross-cutting, comprehensive, violence, bullying, and abuse, prevention, mental health, and school safety, education. It is available for school-based or out-of-school time use for those 5 to 25 years of age.
YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. is presenting this program directly to students in schools, children, and youth in many out-of-school settings including after-school care locations, youth clubs, child and youth activity locations, place of worship, summer camps, governmental locations. The YouthAlert! (YA!) Program follows a school-based model which is adapted for out-of-school time use.
YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. has met with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (FLDJJ) in Tallahassee, Florida and plans to start offering its program to those youth and young adults in detention and residence and to be offered as a diversion program for Florida Courts, and Probation Departments.
YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A . has also met with the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) to help facilitate student health education programming in Florida and for the program to be offered for free statewide in each district student health education requirements.
YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A is a group of volunteers of concerned adults and youth from all parts of society whose purpose is to help to bring about an annual ten percent reduction in child and youth violence, bullying, and abuse. All of YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. initiatives are educational only and rooted in volunteerism. YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. is also not political, financial, or religious, in nature.
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