GRADE 6-8 | ALL NYC BOROUGHS
Since 1999, Rising Ground’s Relationship Abuse Prevention Program (RAPP) has embedded social work clinicians in New York City public middle and high schools to provide individual therapy, group support, and school and community-wide training and education designed to educate and respond to all forms of abusive behaviors, including bullying, gender-based violence, and teen dating abuse. RAPP engages young people in both a preventive and interventive capacity to promote healthy relationships.
With its mission of ending relational abuse and promoting healthy relating and communication, the RAPP curriculum educates young people in identifying dynamics of abusive behaviors and working to prevent them from becoming patterns. Our RAPP Coordinators are committed to engaging and supporting teens using developmentally appropriate, culturally–responsive, survivor-centered, trauma-informed, healing–centered and anti–oppressive practices.
Each summer, RAPP Coordinators hire students from their school communities for a paid, intensive youth peer leadership program. Peer Leaders learn about intimate partner violence, teen dating violence, and how a variety of social issues compound to impact the experience of survivorship. Each RAPP summer program culminates in a showcase presented by youth, for youth.
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