About
Youth of Vision Academy, commonly abbreviated YOVA, is a private Christian boarding school in Jamaica. The school's website describes it as providing behavioral, therapeutic, and educational services in a Christian boarding-school setting.
YOVA drew wider public attention after reporting about international adoptees and child-protection proceedings involving children sent to Jamaica. A 2024 Kentucky Lantern article reported that children's-rights attorney Dawn Post traveled to Jamaica after teen boys were removed from a for-profit facility amid allegations of abuse and neglect. In 2026, an American Bar Association children's-rights newsletter described a Canadian youth-protection court decision involving children repatriated from Youth of Vision Academy.
Major public sources include the school's official website, its about page, the Kentucky Lantern article "Adopted. Abandoned. But not forgotten.", and the American Bar Association article "Canada Saved Its Children. Why Aren't We?".