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War Against Violence Corporation dba YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A.

Where Children and Youth Meet Halfway to Reduce Violence, Bullying, and Abuse

aka YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A.   |   Westlake Village, CA   |  www.youthalert.us

Mission

Our Mission: “World Peace Through Youth Peace"

Notes from the nonprofit

YouthAlert! (YA!) Program - A Child and Youth Violence, Bullying, and Abuse, Prevention/Comprehensive Health Education Curriculum. YouthAlert! (YA!) Program is designed to reduce youth violence and lower level of all violence in a community and its related costs. Violence is a powerful force but fortunately, there are equally powerful forces to overcome it. YouthAlert! (YA!) Program fully utilizes; the power of a child’s and youth’s physical, mental and emotional capabilities, the power of all the information, the power of feeling good and doing good, the power of each person’s individual internal identity, the power of free will, and power of true choice. In addition, there is enough top-tier evidence-based research available to enable us to reach all children and youth and help them with their risks, victimization, and rehabilitation. YouthAlert! (YA!) Program puts them all into practice and it all successfully comes together with an in-school universal cross-cutting violence bullying and

Ruling year info

2011

Principal Officer

Mr. Douglas Alan Wain

Main address

PO Box 7473 N/A

Westlake Village, CA 91359 USA

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Formerly known as

Win The War! Against Violence

EIN

27-5333413

NTEE code info

Educational Services and Schools - Other (B90)

Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (V01)

Citizen Participation (W24)

IRS filing requirement

This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.

Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

In the age of COVID, YouthAlert! (YA) U.S.A. is developing more fullying its on-line/virtual YouthAlert! (YA!) Peace Program for Children and Youth. The program is becoming essential for those schools with Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) requirements. The YA! program help kids survive and thrive in the real world. YA! believe all 1.8 billion youth in the world are equal in meaning, importance, value, and worth, and equal in any other way you can think of. We also believe youth peace could a very successful step to world peace. The biggest problem we think the U.S. has today is the horrible youth gun violence problem and the terrible inequality that comes with it. That is why YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. with its Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC at the United Nations is promoting its own; peace first, youth peace first, peace plans for the Korean Peninsula and Syria. The solution is teamwork, and in our own small way, we hope to be a part of theirs, and others, peace team.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

YouthAlert! Event (YA!) Event - A free Youth Violence Prevention Event & Forum

Where Youth and Adults meet Halfway to Reduce Violence.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth

YouthAlert! (YA!) Violence & Bullying Prevention/Health Program (VBPHP) "Where Youth and Adults Meet Halfway to Reduce Violence & Bullying" Teaching Violence, Bullying Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles to Children and Youth. YouthAlert! (YA!) Violence & Bullying Prevention/Health Program is an in-school, out-of-school time, one to two-day, two to three hour, presentation, whose purpose is to reduce violence and bullying by a ten-percent and improve the overall health of children and youth of Elementary, Middle and High School age. This program is part of YouthAlert! (YA!)’s National Health Curriculum.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth

Media Community Awareness Campaign

Population(s) Served
Children and youth

Where we work

Awards

Proclamation for Win The War! Against Violence 2012

Kentucky Governor Steve L. Beshear

Citation for Win The War! Against Violence 2012

Kentucky House of Representatives

Resolution for Win The War! Against Violence 2012

Kentucky Sentate

Affiliations & memberships

Kentucky Nonprofit Network 2011

United Nations ECOSOC 2017

Videos

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

We use serval methods to measure impact. Control Groups, Formative and Summative Accesssments, Pretests and Postests, Self-Reporting Surveys, Testimonials and more. Please see our attached impact statment

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Adolescents

Related Program

YouthAlert! (YA!) Program

Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

94.3 % of students/youth said this presentation will help them avoid being a victim of violence. 95.5 % of the students/youth said this presentation will help prevent them from doing violence.

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

The first goal of our YouthAlert! (YA!) Violence & Bullying Prevention/Health Program is a Ten-Percent reduction in all violence, self-harm, bullying, substance abuse, school, school board, law, violations including behavior events, truancy, with youth who have gone through our program.

Our primary education vehicle is our YouthAlert! (YA!) Violence & Bullying Prevention/Health Program and our 18 week YouthAlert! (YA!) Health Curriculum. We followed up with additional educational exercises and tools on our web site www.YouthAlert.us and through our free smart phone app called YouthAlert. All educational formats are interactive and continual.

YouthAlert! (YA!) has an experienced group of volunteers, interns, and professionals from all aspects of society to apply our programming

YouthAlert! (YA!) personnel present the YouthAlert! (YA!) Violence & Bullying Prevention/Health Program directly to any number of children or youth in a school, class, public, or community, environment. Extra attention during these presentations is given to male youth and U.S. minorities. The Program is not political, financial, religious, or judgmental. YouthAlert!

(YA!) has now reached over 10,000 youth with all its violence prevention initiatives including its free and public YouthAlert! (YA!) Youth Violence Prevention Event & Forums.

To reach a greater percentage of stundents within one school-year and to implement our YouthAlert! (YA!) Health Curriculum and our YouthAlert! (YA!) Violence & Bullying Prevention/Health Program in more schools.

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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War Against Violence Corporation dba YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A.

Board of directors
as of 09/08/2022
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board co-chair

Mr. Douglas Wain

Douglas Safety Corporation

Term: 2011 - 2020


Board co-chair

Mrs. Diane Minnifield

Douglas Wain

Douglas Safety Corporation, Lexington, Kentucky, Est. 1995

Elisa Wain

Fayette County Public Schools, Lexington, Kentucky. Served on Board of Chrysalis House

Diane Minnifield

Lexington, Kentucky

Board leadership practices

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 11/18/2020
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Male, Not transgender (cisgender)
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

 

Sexual orientation

Disability

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Equity strategies

Last updated: 11/18/2020

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
  • We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
  • We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
  • We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
  • We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
  • We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
  • We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
  • We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.