With support from the California Arts Council, RYSE INC will continue Freedom Beatz, a collaborative music production and music history exploration for youth and staff at Juvenile Hall in Contra Costa County. Relationship building, social-emotional learning, and creativity among youth, staff, and arts educators are cultivated within our healing-based model.
Youth participate in programming that includes direct services, intensive case management and wrap-around services; education and career advancement supports; leadership, organizing and advocacy; media, arts and culture; and health and wellness education. Young people access RYSE through multiple points of entry and engagement (drop-in, structured, individual, group, center-wide, referrals from schools, probation, etc.), which allows for an inviting and welcoming environment that meets them where they’re at.

