RAP (The Resource Alert Project) is a mobile app and initiative that aims to connect youth in Detroit to community resources by sharing information and inspiring collaboration between organizations. It will improve communication of resources, events, and activities to families and youth. The goals are to better engage and enrich children, share information with communities, and inspire greater cooperation among youth organizations to help build a better future for Detroit.

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

2. 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.

3. • 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?

4. 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).

5. 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.

6. How RAP Works
“VOICES (media) and CHOICES
(resources)”

7. 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

8. • 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

10. 2015 Implementation PLAN
Establish 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 .