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Causes: Mutual & Membership Benefit
Mission: Provide ongoing training, program and professional development, collaboration and advocacy for youth service organizations to enhance their efforts to provide quality prevention and intervention youth programs.
Programs: Membership services1 advocating preservation of state funded youth intervention programs. 2 administrative agency for the youth policy alliance. 3 bimonthly e-newsletter-facilitate exchange of information and networking. 4 continue to grow with organizational members and individual members. 5 reach out to culturally specific organizations, blogging and building a database of best practices in youth intervention. 6 work with the membership through a public relations effort to help them educate their communities about youth intervention services.
conferences and training 1 provide 25+ professional development conference and training programs throughout minnesota training 1,800 youth service workers. 2 offering streamed,on-line webinar training program so that youth service providers can receive cost effective training from their own office thus saving travel and other expenses incurred when personally attending trainings.
association business1 establish a sustainable development plan to continue to provide top quality services, yipa has organized the following activities to accomplish these goals-create a development plan and timeline which encompasses donor cultivitation, increasing sponsorship revenue from small businesses, and new sources of corporate and foundation grants. 2 incorporate an entirely new membership and conference organization database system called blackbaud sphere into the daily operations of the organization allowing us to streamline work into a comprehensive and more accurate system.