This solicitation aims to combine these two programs into one unified program, the Relationship Abuse Prevention Program (RAPP) that provides developmentally appropriate prevention education to middle school and high school students as well as interventive clinical support and activities aimed at school culture change and community engagement. A key goal of combining these programs is to use existing resources in a way that allows providers to expand RAPP’s reach by combining E-RAPP’s universal prevention model with Teen RAPP’s more selective one and expanding services to include non-school based youth-serving sites. Non-school based youth serving sites include but are not limited to cityfunded programs such as DYCD’s cornerstone and drop-in centers, as well as non-city funded community centers, community-based organizations and summer camps. We anticipate that the program will expand to reach 150-200 schools and youth serving sites with the funding allocated in this RFx by implementing one of the following program models: • Establishing a hub for several social workers and community educators to deliver services. The social workers and community educators would serve 10-12 schools and youth serving sites that are geographically proximal to the hub, providing workshops and taking individual referrals for clinical services that could be delivered at the hub or at the school/youth serving site. Hubs could be established within school buildings, community-based settings, or at a provider’s existing facilities. • Increasing the number of schools or youth serving sites by each social worker to more than one, either by having the social worker be physically present at multiple sites during the week or through referral pathways across multiple sites. • Expanding RAPP’s reach through train-the trainer models or other strategies that allow staff at schools and youth-serving sites to deliver healthy relationship curricula while creating referral pathways for young people who would benefit from RAPP’s clinical services.
