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 Abington Art Center's Fostering Creativity is an after-school program serving Philadelphia, PA counties that brings 50-60 at-risk foster care children, ages 11-17,
together with an art therapist for a hands-on art experience. The Art Center provides a safe environment where the children are encouraged to express themselves.
Academy of Community Music's Crescendo Music Program provides at least 1,300 at-risk pre-school children in Pennsylvania, PA with 30 weekly music classes and provides their families with parental involvement materials and activities. 
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in the School's After School Art Program is a 10-week program that serves 200 at-risk Albuquerque, NM youths, grades K-5. The program will use their successful curriculum encompassing art history, aesthetics, criticism, and art making. The program is free to the students. Arts Street's Art & Health; Art & Change; Art & Technology program will reach at least 1,180 at-risk Denver, CO youths, grades 6-12, through their classes, workshops, performances, exhibits, and other creative programs. Programs include African dance, hip hop, sculpting, video story-telling, open studio, and an urban art graffiti show-down. The Art/Technology Incubator program brings together the students’ creative and artistic skills with intensive technical training and income-earning opportunities. 
Big Picture Alliance (BPA) offers an after-school filmmaking program at Dobbins
CTE High School in Philadelphia, PA to 30 at-risk students. The students write, act,
produce and take part in production and post-production processes resulting in broadcast-quality films. The BPA helps the students to acquire job skills; to build language, communication and critical thinking skills; to develop self-esteem and other healthy life skills which in turn encourage positive life choices.
Boyer College of Music and Dance’s Community Music Scholars Program provides a comprehensive program of jazz and classical music instruction for 200-250 at-risk Philadelphia, PA school children, ages 7-12.  Butterfly Hope's Summer Enrichment Program for at least 100 low income at-risk students from the Denver, CO area helps at-risk children, grades K-5, reach their potential by encouraging them to respectfully explore the natural world, and the creativity that lives within each of them. Calliope! offers a 5-week summer workshop in the Salida, CO area that includes all aspects of musical theater for children, ages 6-18. Twelve at-risk youths are included each summer.  Chicano Humanities & Arts Council’s Children’s Program serves 4,000 at-risk Denver, CO youths, ages 13-18. The programs include: Classroom Tours, where the Gallery is made available for educational visits; Visiting Artists Program, where artists go off-site to visit area schools; monthly on-site art workshops; and After-School and Summer Programs that often collaborate with other local organizations. The program is free of charge. Children’s Museum of Denver's Sponsored Admissions Program reaches at least 11,000 at-risk youths, ages birth-8, in the Denver, CO metro area and introduces them to their arts/education programs, exhibits and special events on-site and in the classroom. Programs include: ARTS a la Carte, where youths can let their creativity run wild – dancing, drawing, painting, acting, making music or creating a puppet show; The Center for the Young Child, which is the Rocky Mountain Region’s only developmentally appropriate play environment for newborns through 4-year-olds and their caregivers; and The Assembly Plant, where 4- to 8-year olds build one-of-a-kind creations out of recycled materials.  The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis’ Starpoint Program serves more than 60 at-risk Indianapolis, IN youths and families in the low-income neighborhoods that surround the museum. Programs are designed for youths, ages 6-12, and special opportunities are developed to involve the entire family. The program includes the arts, humanities and science experiences at the museum. Colorado Children’s Chorale offers chorale training and performances to approximately 2,200 at-risk youths in inner-city schools and community organizations in the Denver, CO area through their School Partnership Program, Community Choir Program and Youth Performances.  Commonwealth Youthchoirs’ Find Your Instrument (FYI) is an after-school choral education program designed to give at least 26 at-risk youths in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, PA the opportunity to find their singing voice and discover the profound joy of singing in a choir. Community Arts Center’s Elders Project is a two-part, year-long project that lead outreach instructor, Paul Downie, plans to use to strengthen community connections and develop inter-generational learning opportunities for the residents of Wallingford, PA. The project will teach at-risk students to create portrait paintings and drawings honoring people and activities in the community. At least 50 at-risk Chester High School students, ages 11-18, will participate in a for-credit course which will focus on community-based art and concepts in local history. Students will create a body of work including portraits, creative writing, oral history, and collage.  Dance Kaleidoscope’s Indy Parks and Recreation Summer Camps program is a two-day dance residency in seven Indy Parks and Recreation summer camps that serves more than 350 at-risk Indianapolis, IN youths. Their Building Better Lives After School Enrichment Program takes place bi-weekly at an elementary school that serves 52 at-risk youths. Dance Kaleidoscope is partnering with a dance and percussion performing arts group to implement a weekly arts curriculum for 16 weeks per school semester. Excelsior Youth Center is an independent residential treatment center for girls, ages 11 to 18, in Aurora, CO. The Art Education Program provides at least 125 at-risk girls instruction in art history, composition, and advanced art technique. Excelsior will host artistic workshops with visiting artists to broaden the perspectives of the students.  Fine Arts for Children & Teens (FACT) teaches visual arts to at-risk youths who would not otherwise have access to high quality arts education programs. ARTcamp is a weekly or daily summer program that serves 1,000 at-risk youths from Santa Fe, NM, ages 3-12, and takes place at public elementary schools in conjunction with other community agencies. Fleisher Art Memorial’s Teen Lounge is an after-school residency that provides approximately 40 at-risk Philadelphia, PA high school youths a safe after school space to engage with one another in a positive and supportive environment where they can explore different kinds of art-making including painting, mixed media, digital photography, ceramics and printmaking.  Frequent Flyers Productions’ Kids Who Fly offers classes in low-flying trapeze and aerial dance to help at-risk children, ages 10-18, from the Boulder, CO area, build healthy, risk-taking behavior, work constructively on self-esteem issues, and experience the unique joy of expressing themselves artistically. FrontRange Earth Force's Service Learning program engages 2,000 at-risk Denver, CO students with hands-on, student-led projects within the classroom. With the help of teachers, the students are provided the opportunity to become leaders in their community and to make lasting, positive changes in the places where they learn and live. The program incorporates the arts – music, poetry, public speeches and presentations, creative design and painting – into projects that both educate the students and serve the communities in which those students live. The annual Youth Summit at the Denver Zoo brings together students who have been through the service learning process.  High Valley Community Center's Fabulous Fridays will offer 75 or more at-risk youths, ages 5-17, in Del Norte, CO, an opportunity to participate in cultural and performance arts activities. Imagination Makers Theater Company’s Residency Program at a Denver, CO elementary school reaches approximately 100 at-risk youths, ages 8-10. The youths write about real life experiences. The teaching artists, along with the classroom teacher, instruct the youths in skills for improving their writing. After the stories have been completed, the youths are put in small groups to begin acting out the completed stories. The youths learn to make decisions, compromise and work with others to achieve a goal. 
Indiana Repertory Theatre’s Summer Conservatory for Youth is a four-week skill-building experience in theatre arts for 11 at-risk Indianapolis, IN children, ages 8 to 18. Classes include acting, dance and movement, voice and diction, singing, playwriting, design, and theatre management. The goal is to teach the children about the processes involved in the performing arts, and to teach them how to develop their performing and designing talent.  Indiana State Symphony Society’s Metropolitan Youth Orchestra introduces 134 at-risk Indianapolis, IN youths in elementary through high-school to string instruction and performance. The program is 35 weeks long and consists of private lessons, orchestral/ensemble experience; self-monitored practice routine, student progress assessment, solo recitals and concerts. Indianapolis Art Center’s ArtReach program serves 450 at-risk Indianapolis, IN children, ages 5-18, from urban neighborhoods through free after-school and Saturday art classes. Projects encourage the children to explore their inner selves by developing self-expression and creativity, learning new art techniques, and by participating in positive group interaction through collaborative works of art.
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