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Community Reintegration Program

YEP’s first program, which we started in 2004, is our Community Reintegration Program (CRP). YEP’s CRP was the first-of-its-kind program in Louisiana for juvenile offenders returning from detention facilities, and remains the only juvenile re-entry program in the ...

The Village

Named after the African Proverb “it takes a village to raise a child,” the Village Program, established in 2009, provides out-of-school youth ages 16-21 with GED preparation and wrap-around case management services ...

Afterschool Enrichment Program

The Afterschool Enrichment program is YEP’s newest program that we started in October 2010. This program provides Central City youth (enrolled in grades 1 through 12) with tutoring support and other supportive services that ...

Summer Camp

YEP operates an annual Summer Camp that provides approximately 50 Central City youth ages 7-15 with a fun, free, and engaging summer experience. During the 2-month summer camp, youth participate in a diverse arrange of field trips that include the Audubon Zoo; Children’s Museum; Aquarium; D-Day Museum; local sporting ...

Community Based Mentoring Program

YEP’s Community Based Mentoring (CBM) program, established in 2008, provides young male youth from Central City (ages 8-16) who are not court-involved, but who are at-risk for ...

NOPLAY

Founded in 2006, NOPLAY is the Youth Empowerment Project’s educational program, providing GED and basic literacy instruction to out-of-school youth and young adults between the ages of 16-24 from the Greater New Orleans region ...

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