Editing Youth Guard (section)

==Mission Statement==
The Youth Guard’s public mission statement, as it appears on their website:

*To increase the personal safety of child parahumans, reduce their risk of physical, mental, or emotional harm, and to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse
*To ensure that the child’s essential needs are met, and that the duties do not impact their requirement for food, water and sleep
*To ensure that the child’s peripheral needs are met, and that their duties do not have an egregious impact on their need for entertainment, freedom, self-esteem, or family
*To prevent the long-term harm to the children by way of a neglect in education
*To ensure that the child’s identity remains strong, preventing ‘boot camp’ grinding down of personality, brainwashing, cult-like manipulations, and sexualization of the costumed alter-ego
*To act as liaisons for parents who feel that the PRT is co-opting their rights
*To offer legal counsel to children and parents who have signed on with the PRT, when concerns lie with the PRT or other groups
*To research better practices on how to keep Wards safer
*To maintain comprehensive data on the latest trends in abuses.
*Coordinates national efforts in these areas through collaboration with non-profit agencies, government, industry, law enforcement, educators, and families