Youth Problem-Solving
Program
The
Youth Problem-Solving Program (YPSP) is the Metropolitan Police Department’s
(MPD) youth leadership development effort. YPSP will engage teams
of youth from the District of Columbia who are between the ages of
14-18 years old in completing a community-building project of their
choice. The
YPSP program is designed to partner teams of youth with community
organizers and professional mentors whose purpose will be to participate
in projects that will build the leadership skills of the youth,
assist them in accepting civic responsibility, and work on ideas
to improve their communities. YPSP participants will form teams
of mentors and peers to learn and apply MPD's collaborative problem-solving
steps on a project that builds upon and utilizes community assets.
After the completion of the projects, YPSP participants will be
prepared to apply collaborative problem-solving and leadership skills
within their families, among peers, in their personal lives, and
ultimately in their communities for sustained improvement. The YPSP
Program is a version of the partnership for problem-solving program
fused with the ideals of partnership and information-sharing. An
important aim of the YPSP program is to give youth a lifelong learning
tool- collaborative problem solving.
Goals
- To
institutionalize the problem-solving process with youth partners.
- To
build leadership capacity among YPSP participants.
- To
complete youth leadership projects and celebrate with presentations
and awards, that showcases results of YPSP efforts.
Objectives
- For
police partners to support youth in completing surveys and gathering
data
on youth’s concerns to understand the issues that impact
them in their community.
- To
assist youth in developing problem-solving, leadership, and team-building
skills
that build their capacity to address community and family issues.
- For
problem-solving teams to participate in collaborative problem-solving
training,
prioritize an issue or project an issue or project, and achieve
completion of the project.
- To
promote expansion of YPSP projects in order to provide images
of success for media that will set a standard and help create
positive images of youth across the Nation.
- To
build on a multi-year basis with a creation of youth leadership
projects, with annual awards ceremonies for the participants.
More
Information
For more information
on the Youth Problem-Solving Program, contact any of the following
Policing for Prevention Unit members:
- Annie
Russell
(202) 727-1585
- Officer
Chante Brodie
(202) 727-6740
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