Organization Details

RAP uses a unique preventive advocacy model that integrates direct legal services and youth empowerment training, and community education.

Specifically, we advocate for system-level improvements in the laws, policies and agencies that impact youths? ability to move out of poverty; We expand and strengthen communities of support by training youth as peer educators, and by providing advocacy trainings to help advocates and youth service providers leverage existing laws to help the youth in their communities; and We protect and empower low-income youth themselves, through direct legal advocacy and youth leadership workshops that train them to connect to networks of support and to navigate the systems in their lives.

Address

262 West 38th St., Suite 1104
New York, NY 10018
(212) 204-6666

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