The Teen And Police Academy provides solutions that work to build and improve relationships between youth and law enforcement through programming, education, skill building, and service learning. Here are some of the services we provide:

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TAPS Academy Research
TAPS Academy Academics
TAPS Academy Training

What We Do

Our Goals

  1. Reduce the social distance between youth and police.
  2. Increase tangible life skills in youth.
  3. Provide youth with service learning opportunities. 
 

Since 2011, The Teen And Police Service Academy has served more than:

12500

Youth

7075

Officers

TAPS Academy provides training for law enforcement officers and youth throughout the United States. Here are the cities across the nation that we are currently in:

Greater Houston Area

Columbus, Ohio

Upper Darby, Pennsylvania

Las Vegas, Nevada

Lynchburg, Virginia 

Grambling, Louisana 

Orangeburg, South Carolina

Washington, DC

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"Youths who participated in the TAPS Academy showed significant improvement in measures of social distance, with certain subgroups (such as Hispanic/Latino and male youths) reporting more favorable perceptions of police.”

- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention