Through a unique preventive legal advocacy model, RAP transforms traditional advocacy strategies into active youth development tools, giving youth the skills and support to prevent the challenges of adolescence and poverty from becoming crises that keep them from making a healthy transition into adulthood and out of poverty.
RAP's preventive advocacy incorporates best practices from youth advocacy, child development, and youth development practice. We use three specific strategies:
- We educate and empower youth through innovative and non-traditional models of preventive youth advocacy (MORE);
- We build the capacity of core community institutions through legal advocacy trainings and resources, to help them leverage existing laws and policies and strengthen the youth that they work with (MORE); and
- We advocate for system-level improvements in the laws, policies and institutions that impact young people’s ability to move out of poverty (MORE).
Announcements:
Listen to RAP Executive Director, Brooke Richie, discuss various youth topics on WBAI's City Watch:
- Discussion about NYC's LYFE child care program with Karyn Brownson of the New York Civil Liberties Union (LISTEN)
- Discussion about Resilience frameworks within the child welfare system with Richard Kleiner, Psychologist (LISTEN)
Bring your friends and join RAP at our Summer Solstice Celebration and Friendraiser! June 24 from 6:30-9pm.
The Resilience Advocacy Project is an incubator project of the Fund for the City of New York.
