The Write of Your L!fe is a 12-week group mentoring program with an emphasis in the arts, where trauma-trained instructors implement social-emotional learning curriculum. Instructors meet with students once weekly for two hours for 12 weeks where students participate in resiliency-building writing and speaking lessons. Students participate in self-portrait painting, publish a group anthology containing their writings and poetry and create an awareness artistic story-board concerning social injustices.
Our P’Art of Parenthood is a parental and community engagement visual arts program. The purpose of the program is to ensure that art is accessible to our young and vulnerable students who are at risk for entering the school-to-prison pipeline, to promote positive caregiver-youth relationships, and to bridge them to community support systems to ensure long-term, positive impacts across all areas of their lives.