The FBI Youth Academy is a program modeled after the FBI Community Partnership
Program (CPP). Although traditional CPP participants meet bi-weekly for eight
sessions, the FBI Youth Academy participants meet once for an eight-hour block
of presentations and hands-on exercises, completing the session in one day. Participants
receive presentations on such topics as terrorism, drugs, white-collar crime,
and Internet safety as well as demonstrations on evidence response and SWAT team
operations.
This program allows the Philadelphia Division to interact
with teenagers and to show them that a career with
the FBI is a viable and attainable opportunity. The
FBI Youth Academy also continues to foster the relationship
between CPP participants and the Philadelphia Division.
Participants are selected from diverse neighborhoods
throughout the city of Philadelphia and surrounding
areas and are usually nominated by former participants
in the CPP or by FBI employees.
