YAVP Awards Night
YAVP Award Night
Location: YAVP
Our first annual YAVP award night was a rousing success! We honored our members and local businesses for work provided and internships completed. It was a time for people to take pride in being recognized for their accomplishments.
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The Young Adult Vocational Program helps evaluate and train its youth in having a positive work ethic. The Program offers training via individual one-on-one feedback, group seminars, volunteer/training and internships at various sites throughout the greater Arlington area.
YAVP has received various awards for its commitment and service to the community. Listed below are several awards that YAVP has been honored of recent with two being handed out this year 2008.
- 2005 -YAVP received a Certificate of Appreciation for our leadership and commitment to delivering meals to the elderly through the Meals on Wheels Program.
- 2008-YAVP was presented with the President’s Volunteer Service Award for 5 years of continuous service to delivering meals four times a week to the elderly through the Meals on Wheels Program.
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2008-YAVP received the Employer of the Year Award for offering employment to consumers of the CASCAP INC. Consumer Provider Program.
YAVP has also received letters of appreciation from the founders of the Arlington Food Pantry, Marge and Warren Johnson, for helping the Food Pantry staff when it opens to the public and for sorting the tons of non-perishables the pantry collects during its yearly postal food drive.
YAVP in 2008 has begun an Internship/Training Program which currently partners with various businesses and institutions in the greater Arlington Area. This is a specialized program for those members who have shown that they are dependable and reliable. They are matched based on motivation and interest. The duration is approximately three months. At the end of the three months, a review of the performance of the individual will be conducted and to evaluate the effectiveness of the internship experience. Both parties can then decide if they want to continue the partnership and set new goals if appropriate. Listed below are the various businesses and institutions that have partnered with YAVP.
Our Business Partners
- Alliance for Animals
- Arlington Town Hall
- Arlington Chamber of Commerce
- Back Pages Books
- Big Foot Moving Company
- Clearly Creative
- Gemma Gourmet Pizza Shop
- Newton Free Library
- Newton-Wellesley Hospital Coffee Shop and Cafeteria
- Pleasant St. Congregational Church
- The Alliance for Animals
- The Computer Café
- Watertown Savings Bank
YAVP has various connections within the Greater Arlington Area such as the Arlington Council on Aging, Arlington Media Access, and Minuteman Senior Services Meals on Wheels Program.
YAVP also works within the community and offer seasonal work to those who need help and are willing to pay our young adults. These young adults with the supervision of Bjorn Krammer, our Community Service Organizer, who will help negotiate a fair asking price agreeable to both parties and oversee the service. Ex: raking leaves, shovelling snow and other odd jobs.
YAVP is an intern site for both Boston University “Training for the Future “and CASCAP Consumer Provider Program. This past year we have had an intern from the Consumer Provider Program, Susan Keiley who received her certificate in human services as well as receiving the certificate as a Peer Mentor Specialist.
Other Projects
YAVP has partnered with Watertown Savings Bank in a project to maintain several planters in the Arlington Center Plaza. Our members have been hired by Randall Buck who is Senior Vice president of Technology of Watertown Savings Bank to water these planters three times a week. Bjorn Krammer oversees the watering and supervises a member to help water the planters.
Click on the picture to go to the Alliance for Animals Website.