YPA Milestones

• Held press conference on January 9th in Chicago Illinois to announce YPA’s move to   become an international organization.  With our first international Chapter to open in Sierra Leone West Africa.
• Started organizational effort for the Million Youth March.
• Received funding from Main Street Association for an employment readiness and training program we entitled, “get a job-keep a job”, a spin-off of a summer initiative in theater that the founder participated in when he was 14 years old and loosely based on the 1977 comedy-crime movie “A Piece of the Action”, starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby.
• Worked with Government and business officials in US, UK and Guinea to help our     members and their families in Sierra Leone to find safe refuge from the war.
• Columbus city council resolution of expression
• Citation of recognition mayor Gregory Lashutka