RAP transforms the role of traditional legal advocacy in the lives of children and youth, empowering youth to impact the circumstances of their lives, building the capacity of communities to meet the needs of vulnerable youth, and improving laws, policies and systems to protect young people's access to the educational, economic, and emotional resources they need to make healthy transition into adulthood and out of poverty.
RAP's work incorporates three core strategies:
- We empower young people through the development of innovative legal advocacy and youth empowerment models (MORE);
- We build the capacity of core community institutions through legal advocacy trainings and resources, to build their capacity to support the youth that they work with (MORE); and
- We improve the systems that impact low-income children and youth by advocating for improvements in child and youth-related laws, policies and institutions (MORE).
RAP IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR ITS YOUTH LEADERSHIP, EMPOWERMENT, AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM (YOUTH LEAP). Click here for an application.
Join our Poverty and Social Justice Discussion Group!
Each month, RAP brings together individuals from all over the tri-state area to discuss cutting-edge issues of poverty and social justice. Join the discussion!
June: The History and Heart of Poverty: Why It Won't Die ** June 30th (6:30 - 8pm) ** COMPLETED
July: Does Educational Inequality Create a Permanent Social Underclass? ** July 29th (6:30 - 8pm) ** COMPLETED
August: The Female Face of Poverty ** August 25th (6:30 - 8pm) ** To RSVP, contact Alana Gorman-Knutson at gorman-knutson@resiliencelaw.org.
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