With support from the California Arts Council, Musicians for Education will provide an arts education and college-bridge program for at-risk teen mothers at Lindsay Blended Community School—part of the San Diego Office of Education’s Juvenile Court and Community Schools (JCCS) system—which serves pregnant and parenting teens in grades 9 through 12 who were referred by probation, social services or school district officials.
(1) The Street of Dreams program: provides standards-based experiential arts education as a bridge into college.
(2) Street of Dreams Live! Spoken Word Concert: The culminating events of the arts classes. Using a simple method called word art, students transform feelings of despair into artworks, performance.
(3) The Dream Team and Artist Intern Project: Consists of 20 program alumni who are college students/college graduates who act as mentors and art instructors to the younger girls helping them navigate their way through the first difficult years of college.
(4) The Importance of Art as Primary Prevention: Provides expressive arts education as a bridge back into society for parolees who are repeat offenders and have been isolated from normal social interaction due to incarceration. We work collaboratively with professionals in the fields of criminal justice, substance abuse prevention and college readiness counselors to provide a strong foundation for parolees who have begun the process of life transformation and reentry breaking the cycle of recidivism.
