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Program Requirements

Teachers will receive introductory training, full program resources, and ongoing staff support to run YPI, but before we enroll a new school, we need to be sure the following program requirements can be met.

• YPI will be taught in all classes of one mandatory course across one chosen grade/year level: 9 or 10. 
• Your school’s YPI Lead Teacher will be the main point of contact for YPI communications, and will provide updates on your school’s YPI project upon request throughout the year.
• YPI will be delivered over the course of at least four weeks (in each class), using/adapting the lessons in the provided YPI curriculum guide.
• Charity site visits are a requirement of YPI. Your school will permit/support students to make off-campus site visits to their chosen charities.
• Charities are to be identified and selected by students, and must meet the YPI eligibility requirements: registered charity providing social services directly to people in your local community.
• A Final Presentations Assembly will be arranged to permit finalist teams from each class to give their presentation to an audience and a panel of judges. Minimum recommendation for audience: one entire grade level. Judging panel must have a majority of students.

*In a school’s first year, a minimum of 50% of the grade/year level should participate; in every year moving forward, all students in the grade/year level should participate. This is in order to be inclusive to all students.