Mission

Its mission is to prevent juvenile delinquency and juvenile crime by engaging youth with police officers to help create a safer community and promote the healthy physical, social, and mental development of its youth.PAL operates through a partnership with the Town of Apple Valley and the Apple Valley Police Department. Their strategic goal is to target and identify "at-risk" communities and youth and provide them with educational, athletic, and other recreational activities. PAL defines "at-risk" youth as any youth that are unsupervised during non-school hours.A.V.P.A.L offers several different programs to youth in the Town of Apple Valley. These programs were developed after seeing a need for children of the community to learn proper skills to be a successful and productive part of society. The programs range from after school activities at the Youth Center and Boxing Gym to the intervention program know as S.H.O.C.K.