Douglas D VivianiImportance of the YDA Organization

Douglas Viviani, and I am President of the Board of Directors at Youth Directions and Alternatives, a private, non-profit community and youth agency serving youth and their families in the school district of Elwood, Harborfields, and Northport/East Northport. In my professional life, I’m an attorney with 30 years’ experience, and a member of the New York State Bar Association. The Law Office of Douglas Viviani focuses on traffic violations, and serves the New York area. Obviously, I like to stay busy!

I genuinely enjoy working with and helping youth. I especially enjoy creating educational and youth development programs and recreational activities. Too many children leave school and are left alone in the afternoon until their parents come home. Studies have shown this is the time when negative influences and unhealthy habits take root. It’s imperative to instill positive lessons during the school age years. Negative habits tend to follow kids from teenage years to adulthood, but at the same time, positive ones do, too. Our goal is to nurture those positive activities, sending youth down a positive path and shaping them into happy,healthy adults.

At YDA, we developed programs that give children a place to go, where they’re surrounded by people and adults helping them succeed. We created YDA Drop-Ins, which is a recreational program starting after school that gives youths a safe place to meet their friends, watch movies, play games, and just hang with their friends in a vibrant, social environment.

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