YPA Milestones

• YPA organized one of, if not the largest gang summit, with more than 550 rival gang members, (or what we call street organizations) showing up, and Mayor Dana “Buck” Reinhardt, was there to greet them. The Mayor was so disrespectful as he challenged the youth by saying that if they did not want to follow the plan that he had laid out for them, then he had more guns than they did. The actions and words of the Mayor were fuel for the fire burning in YPA, to never stop this leadership movement.
• YPA officially incorporated as a nonprofit organization on September 26, 1985