Need some suggestions

What I need:

Education about structure/plot/MC driving the story
Education about voice
Education about the Grand Unifying Principle in Making a Book Work
Education about making cause and effect work in a novel.

I need it on an advanced level, and I need it from a source that knows the questions I should be asking. I need it to be something I can access without traveling too far, or spending money I don't have. (It's not a matter of allocating resources; you can only allocate those that you actually have.) I'm willing to invest time and effort. I will be at a major state university next year but all I see offered are those general creative writing classes, not anything remotely close to How to Fix the Systemic Problems That You as a Novelist Have.

(I need huge doses of chocolate, too, but luckily I do have the resources for that on hand.)

In short, I need some serious, professional editor feedback, but unless I figure out the nebulous problem between where I am and where I need to get so that I'm eligible for that kind of editor feedback, I'm not going to get it.

What I don't need:

Education that focuses only on the sentence level, ie, dialogue tags.
A conference where one bored editor after another shows slides of what the slush pile looks like
Q&A pages devoted to things like, do I really need to send an SASE? (My snarky answer is, only if you want to hear back--but thus far I've refrained from actually posting that.) Or--why can't I send my ms encased in a paper mache egg/lobster trap??
Critiques that just say, everything is so nice, I just don't know what to suggest!

I'm sorry, but SCBWI is simply not filling that gap for me. Neither does something like ICL (quite aside from the hefty price tag, I have no interest in writing magazine articles, and you have to wade through a lot of that before you're ever allowed to focus on novels. And it's geared towards beginners.) And most writing books I've picked up are either focused on pretty sentences, or have a treatment of overarching elements of a book that is very much on a surface level. Does anyone know of any books or distance workshops that address structure/theme/character driving the story? Because I really, really need to figure this out for the rest of my writing career (we're using that word lightly), and I don't know the questions I need to be asking, and I certainly don't know where to find the answers. I'm feeling pretty frustrated at the moment because I feel like I'm exhausting the available resources and there is still something important I'm not getting.

Ideas?

ETA: Actually, what would be really useful would be to see excellently-written examples of YA novels with the MC effectively driving the action from the very beginning, as well as excellently-written novels that combine the theme and the action into a unifying, satisfying whole. Sometimes all the talk in the world can't quite equate with seeing it done right.

Also, are there such things as distance slush monkeys in children's lit? That might be another option for learning to see whatever it is that I'm missing.

I'm very serious about the writing. I just don't know where to go next to learn what I need to.