Volunteer Opportunities with the Resilience Advocacy Project

The Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP) welcomes individuals who want to make a positive impact in the lives of New Yorks' children and youth.  RAP provides many levels and types of volunteer opportunities. 

Youth Information and Advocacy Help Desks

RAP youth clinics are a great chance to learn the nuts-and-bolts of direct youth advocacy, including outreach, intake, and responding to legal issues. Volunteers staff tables in youth organizations and schools throughout NYC, and provide legal information, advice and referrals to low-income youth (13- 23) on civil legal issues that impact their lives, such as (for example):

• Education 
• Public Benefits 
• Legal issues around Teen Parenthood
• Health/ Reproductive Rights
• Employment
• Foster Care

Volunteers must be lawyers or law students. Each volunteer must attend one training session prior to conducting their first help desk.

Youth Self-Advocacy Workshops

RAP's workshops provide volunteers with an opportunity to interact with youth and to use the law in a fun, creative and dynamic way. Volunteers go into youth organizations and conduct legal know-your-rights and self-advocacy workshops with low-income youth throughout the city.  Through games and activities, youth learn about topics such as: 

• Public Benefits and Education Rights
• Teen Father's Rights
• Self-Advocacy and Inequality; and
• Community Mapping/ Action Research

Each volunteer may conduct as few or as many workshops as (s)he is interested in. Each workshop is approx. 3-hours long (Some take place over two 1- hour sessions).  Volunteers must attend one training session prior to their first workshop.

To become a volunteer, or for more information, email info@resiliencelaw.org or call 212-204-6666.