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Become a community leader! Create exciting art and media peer education tools! Learn about your city! This Spring, 12 students will be selected to work with RAP and the Center for Urban Pedagogy on an exciting arts and media project exploring the way our City’s school system actually works! The crew will explore questions like: [...]

RAP’s Executive Director Brooke Richie talks about report on disconnected youth in City Limits

Read the article here: “Report: Young NYers Face Higher Barriers to Public Assistance”

MISSED OPPORTUNITY: NYC’s Welfare Agency Squanders Educational Opportunies For Youth

The Resilience Advocacy Project released a report in June exposing flaws in the New York City Human Resources Administration’s (HRA) one-size-fits-all work-first model. The report, entitled “Missed Opportunity: How New York City Can Do a Better Job of Reconnecting Youth on Public Assistance to Education and Jobs,” and released in partnership with the Community Service [...]

Youth LEAP Applications Available!

RAP is recruiting teens, ages 16-19, who want to have an impact in their communities and who can commit to an exciting and demanding after-school program for nine months. Peer advocates meet twice each week to explore their communities, learn about young people’s legal rights, and develop the skills to become effective advocates for themselves [...]

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

January 8, 2012 |
Enter the 2012 “Be The Change!” Video Contest

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

September 13, 2011 |
RAP in Newsweek Magazine! Profile of Executive Director Brooke Richie

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