RAMA Blueprints Podcast

From the 5 Sisters Audio Garden, in partnership with CARECEN SF, Instituto Familiar de La Raza, Pacific Islander Resource Hut, Change Elemental, and private individual donors, we present RAMA Blueprints. The story about San Francisco’s Real Alternatives Program (RAP), a revolutionary youth service organization who practiced Self-Determination and empowered their generation, community and city. In 1969, Jim Queen co-founded Real Alternatives Program or RAP, a youth advocacy agency with an emphasis on community leadership development for and by San Francisco youth. Since the agency’s opening, they developed generations of community leaders, but eventually the agency closed its doors in 2001. In the 80’s, RAP created a school, which eventually evolved into a 4 year high school program. We follow the story of RAP’s development and establishment as a youth advocacy agency. We’ll be listening to the stories of former RAP staff, students and teens from that time, and from some of the community leaders who helped shape the tenor and fauna of San Francisco’s Mission District. The ten part series releases one main show each month and various supplementary material to help with a deeper understanding of RAP and its efforts.