Youth LEAP

Youth LEAP is RAP’s innovative and exciting youth leadership and peer advocacy program.

Youth LEAP partners with organizations and institutions throughout the City to engage a diverse group of teens to learn to become advocates for other teens in their communities. The teens work together to build and  sustain a youth-led network of advocacy resource desks in the City’s poorest communities. Youth LEAPers educate other youth about their legal rights, train other youth to become effective self-advocates in their lives and communities, and work together to eradicate the entrenched conditions that perpetuate cycles of poverty in their communities.

Our newest Youth LEAP program site: Atlas:DIY

Featured Happenings

Join the #MakingTeenDadsVisible Social Media Campaign!

The #MakingTeenDadsVsible Campaign is a month-long social media effort aimed at increasing awareness about the unique experiences, needs and strengths of teen dads, and about the unique public policy issues impacting them. Visit #MakingTeenDadsVisible to learn more!

Announcing the Winner of the “Be The Change!” Video Contest

RAP’s YouthVoice NYC initiative, the “Be The Change!” video contest, announces the winners TODAY! We ask  teens all over the City: If you could change anything in the City in 2012, what would it be! We invited them to submit videos telling the Mayor and City Council their New Years Resolution for NYC! Visit YouthVoice [...]

Choice or Chance!

RAP has joined forces with the Center for Urban Pedagogy on an exciting arts and media project exploring the way our City’s school system actually works! We’ve selected 9 teens to explore questions like: Who decides where we go to school? What rights to teens have in school? How do charter schools work? The teens [...]

Sign Up For An Advocate Training

To arrange for an advocate training at your location contact gillies@resiliencelaw.org.

Newsroom

April 3, 2012 |
Join the #MakingTeenDadsVisible Social Media Campaign!

February 22, 2012 |
New Ed Equity Program Launched with CUP

January 8, 2012 |
Announcing the Winner of the “Be The Change!” Video Contest

October 5, 2011 |
RAP has moved to a new office!

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