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Paul Pitcoff is co-founder and director of Education of the Youth Advocacy Center. Working with teens and professionals at YAC, he developed and directs the Getting Beyond the System self-advocacy workshops. Pitcoff has experience as a college professor, filmmaker, and attorney. He is founding chair of the Department of Communications at Adelphi University, where he produced dozens of award-winning documentary films.
After 20 years as a tenured professor, Pitcoff studied law at Cardozo School of Law and briefly practiced in family court. He combined his education, communications and legal experiences to design a curriculum that would meet the needs of teens entering the early phases of their career development.
Betsy Krebs, Esq., is the co-founder and executive director of the Youth Advocacy Center in New York City. Betsy has led the development of the YAC’s program to help teens succeed through self-advocacy education for more than 10 years and guides the national expansion of the Getting Beyond the System model. An expert on teen’s rights, self-advocacy, and child welfare for teenagers, she has written numerous publications for and about teenagers in foster care and about self-advocacy.
Krebs received her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Before starting Youth Advocacy Center, she worked as an attorney representing foster care children.
For interview requests or questions about Pitcoff or Krebs, contact Selena Dehne at sdehne@jist.com or (651) 215-7548.
