Mission

The Resilience Advocacy Project works to improve the systems that perpetuate cycles of poverty.  We develop innovative youth advocacy models, and engage in targeted system-level advocacy efforts that build and sustain resilience  – the ability to overcome adversity – in low-income children and youth.

RAP’s mission is rooted in a belief that children are born inherently resilient. That is, we believe that when given the right tools, low-income children and youth have the ability to succeed educationally and professionally, build healthy families, and obtain financial security. Young people who falter do so not because of innate flaws, but rather because of the lack of access to educational, emotional, health, and economic resources that form the core of life-long resilience. We work to ensure every child’s access to these resources.

Theory of Change