During the entirety of the Covid 19 pandemic, R.A.P. worked with community-based partners and organizations to provide food distribution and address emergent needs of students and families. From the onset of the pandemic, R.A.P. saw the need to expand and adapt its services to meet the needs of those from BIPOC and underserved communities and to address the disproportionate negative effects of the pandemic upon these communities.
From 2020 to the present, R.A.P. has provided over 100 families and individuals with warm connections, provisions, linkages and referrals needed to obtain culturally appropriate solutions for their families in the COVID period. This includes assistance to stop evictions, help with utilities payments, provide household furniture, groceries and necessary prescriptions.
This approach has helped BIPOC, immigrant, and LGBTQIA+ persons to be heard, emotionally understood and supported in addition to meeting their basic needs. R.A.P.’s Emergent Needs Provider linkage resource helps to address real-time issues and concerns and the holistic needs of these underserved communities.
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