Organization Details:

The Resilience Advocacy Project's mission is to end the intergenerational perpetuation of poverty. We advocate for low-income children’s access to the resources and supports that build their resilience - the ability to overcome adversity - and that enable them to move out of poverty.

Description and/or History:
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.

The Resilience Advocacy Project was founded in 2007 by Brooke J. Richie. Since that time, RAP has engaged in advocacy initiatives, and provided services to NYC's low-income youth, that have helped the change the way the law interacts with, and supports, vulnerable children.

Contact person: Brooke Richie, Executive Director, (212) 204-6666, (email)

Address:

262 West 38th St., Suite 1104 New York, NY 10018 (See a map)

Directions:

Take the #1,2,3 train to 34th St./Penn Station or 42nd St. Or take the A,C,E trains to 34th St or 42nd St. We are located between 7th and 8th Aves.