What We Do
RAP develops and implements innovative models for using the law and advocacy to strengthen low-income children and young people to move out of poverty forever. Our ultimate goal is to disseminate those models, and the tools and training to implement them, to communities throughout the country.
We work at the individual, community and system levels to ensure access to the resources that build children’s resilience and strengthen them to move permanently out of poverty:
- We strengthen and empower young people through the development of innovative youth advocacy, leadership and empowerment programs;
- We build the advocacy capacity of core community institutions through legal, policy and advocacy trainings, and through the development of easy-to-use advocacy resources; and
- We pursue a policy agenda aimed at ensuring that laws, policies, and agency systems work to support the healthy development of children and youth in poverty.
