NYC’s Teen Relationship Abuse Prevention Program (RAPP) is America’s most effective domestic violence prevention and anti-bullying program, reaching near 45,000 middle and high school students in 65 schools. New York City’s Teen Relation Abuse Prevention Program (RAPP) program, a $3 million domestic violence prevention and anti-bullying program, reaches nearly 45,000 ethnically and culturally dive
rse students in 65 NYC middle and high schools. Teen RAPP is one of the nation’s most successful programs of its kind and targets violence in all its forms, including dating violence and abusive relationships as well as bullying and risky sexual behavior.At $66 dollars per year, it is also New York City’s most cost efficient social intervention and prevention program. Since 1999 Teen RAPP has been teaching NYC public school students how to have healthy relationships and how to recognize bullying and abuse. Through this training Teen RAPP teaches our kids to help themselves, and teaches their family and peers how to recognize bullying and abuse of the friends and loved ones. Despite this record of success, Mayor Bloomberg has for the fourth year in a row proposed elimination of Teen RAPP’s funding from the upcoming budget. For the last three years, City Council leaders and supporters of Teen RAPP have realized its importance, banded together and saved funding, and with your help we can save Teen RAPP for the fourth year in a row!