Past School-Year Programs

Above: Black Achievers Program, SW Interagency Academy and the Bellingham High School Mural Project

This list gives examples of the type of customized programs we can design for the youth at your school or community center. We would love to talk with you about designing a program perfect for you.

Seattle Girls School: A series of six workshops with students that explored how the arts could impact personal development and civic engagement through theater, creative writing, dance, song and visual arts.

Seattle Rotary Boys & Girls Club “Inside Out”: A weekly after-school workshop for teenage youth that focused on models of positive communication and on creating a safe space for authentic expression through art forms such as theater, dance, visual arts, and creative writing.

Southwest Interagency Academy: A nine-week arts-based program to foster deeper relationships, a greater sense of community and teamwork, and freedom of expression amongst the students at an alternative high school in West Seattle.

Black Achievers Program: Bi-annual 3-hour workshops in community-building, teamwork and creative expression (poetry, visual arts and theater) for the teenagers and mentors in the Meredith Mathews YMCA's Black Achievers Program.

Icicle River Middle School Leadership Day: This program provided 2 full days of workshops for 7th and 8th graders at Icicle River Middle School in Leavenworth, WA. The program, held at the beginning of the 2007 school year, focused on envisioning and creative a positive school environment, with students encouraging each other toward powerful and positive forms of expression to last and built upon all year long.

The Bellingham High School Mural Project: A series of workshops for students at Bellingham High School that focused on civic engagement and school community, and resulted in the creation of a mural for the school.

Leadership Days, Bellingham School District: An all-day arts-oriented program during which middle school students (6th - 8th grade) had the opportunity to explore the idea of leadership within their school and their community. These particular programs were held at every middle school in the Bellingham School district during 2007-2008.

Community Links, Juvenile Justice Center, Bellingham: Community Links is a Bellingham-based program that connects at-risk young people with various organizations within the local community. Power of Hope partnered with Community Links in Bellingham from 2002-2008, doing arts-based activities with the youth and their parents.

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