Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Is College For Me?

Public Access Design

Is College For Me?

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

Print SERVE!

For trans and gender non-conforming youth of color, police profiling and harassment is a dark reality of every day life. Some youth get stopped by police several times a week—some even get stopped more than once a day. Part of the struggle to stay safe in these interactions is knowing and exercising your rights. That’s why CUP teamed up with Streetwise and Safe (SAS) and designer James Dunphy to create SERVE! Street Safety for Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Youth.

This pocket-sized know-your-rights guide helps youth advocate for themselves when they’re detained, searched, and in custody, as well as after they’re released. SERVE! is also the first publication of its kind to publicize rules that protect the rights of trans and gender non-conforming people in the NYPD Patrol Guide, the rulebook that governs how police interact with the public. The easy-to-follow design breaks down personal rights and provides examples of language youth can use to advocate for them. SAS Youth Leaders were an essential part of the design process, and provided feedback that made sure the guide became a unique symbol of their community. 

Immigrants & NY

Making Policy Public

Immigrants & NY

Grand Army Plaza

Urban Investigations

Grand Army Plaza

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Can You See My Screen?

Urban Investigations

Can You See My Screen?

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA