A communication and collaboration model to improve youth engagement and enrichment.

What is The Resource Alert Project (RAP)?

With a demo version currently available on Google Play Store, The Resource Alert Project will improve the ways we connect resources to our families of youth. But RAP must be more than a technology product. It requires a broader effort to engage and enrich our children if we are to build brighter futures in a better Detroit every day.

RAP is a powerful, practical “app” for mobile devices (tablets, laptops and personal computers too) that consistently delivers important information about youth and community resources to benefit Detroit's young generation.

• Too many young people don’t know what resources are available to them.

• Too many youth and community resources don’t know about each other.

• Too many children fail to take advantage of resources that can help them succeed in school and life.

• Too few youth and community resources collaborate for a greater good.

WHY The Resource Alert Project?

How Will RAP Solve These Problems?

Consistently communicate these resources – and youth events, programs, activities, etc. – to our children, families and communities using the RAP mobile “app”, along with a variety of PR and outreach initiatives, online products (websites, web badges and e-newsletters), with media / social media campaigns to grow the RAP subscriber base.

Create a directory and growing network of youth-serving individuals and organizations in the Greater Detroit Area. (Currently, the RAP database contains more than 225 youth resources).

Resource Alert Project GOALS To improve ways we engage,

encourage and enrich our children.

To share information for Detroit children with our families and communities.

To inspire greater cohesion and collaboration among Detroit's youth and family resources – that will lead to a better city and brighter future for us all.

How RAP Works“VOICES (media) and CHOICES

(resources)”

How Did We Get HERE?Determined project need

Researched youth-serving resources in the Greater Detroit area

Developed an online directory with more than 225 Greater Detroit youth resources

Engaged key individuals and groups to build team and momentum

• Hosting RAP sessions (community focus groups) to continue promoting, guiding and advancing the project

• Meeting and building with potential stakeholders to form alliances to strengthen this effort

• Creating a scalable youth engagement and enrichment coalition model for other cities

Where We ARE

Discussing and determining strategies to better engage youth, family and community resources; youth and students; and communities-at-large

Considering companion RAP projects such as youth surveys, student resource fairs and youth media platforms

2015 Implementation PLANEstablish project identity, visibility, viability and credibility

Define team leadership and organizational structure

Form partnerships and alliances

Assess funding / funds development options

Refine creative and technical development

RAP is communication, media and collaboration for youth engagement & enrichment .