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 Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy’s Safe Expressions Program provides music, art and dance/movement therapy to 200 at-risk Philadelphia, PA youths, ages 10-17. Group sessions will occur at schools and community based sites for 30 weeks during the school year. Keshet Dance Company's Outreach Program provides 250 incarcerated youths, ages 12-18, from New Mexico, with in-school, after-school, weekend and intersession dance classes at the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center. The classes provide youths with a rigorous fitness curriculum, use dance as a vehicle to increase literacy, and to enhance social skills.  Kids To The Country is a unique program which has been working to diffuse anger, violence and fear while encouraging talent in some of Nashville, Tennessee’s most at-risk children. The program offers 200 urban youths, ages 6-12, the opportunity to get out of the city and develop a connection to nature through direct, hands-on experience. Latinitas' Chica Art Clubs will present 28 collaborative multi-media workshops providing art instruction for at least 250 at-risk girls, ages 10-18, in southern New Mexico. The workshops will include multi-media, art, culture and technology. 
Mural Arts Program’s Big Picture is a visual arts and mural-making program in Philadelphia, PA. For more than 200 at-risk youths, ages 10-14, Big Picture provides a safe haven where they can rely on the support of a caring adult instructor and the comfort of a structured environment. Students create large-scale professional quality murals, as well as produce independent art works that are placed on display and offered for sale at gallery shows. National Dance Institute of New Mexico’s Residency program serves 30 communities across New Mexico. At least 200 at-risk children attend daily in-school dance classes, from one to three weeks, that blend movement, basic motor skill development, and kinesthetic learning. At the end of the program, the children celebrate their successes with a school assembly or theater performance.  National Institute of Flamenco's Flamenco Kids Camp is a two-week flamenco intensive camp where 65 at-risk children from Albuquerque, NM, ages 6-14, study all aspects of flamenco. Camp members learn about and experience flamenco through dance, guitar, Cajon (percussion) and song. New Mexico CultureNet's Poets-in-the-Schools is a poetry program where poets work directly in classrooms in middle schools and high schools in the Santa Fe, NM area. Students experience increased self-confidence, skill development in writing, public speaking, abstract thinking and problem solving. Poets also provide one-on-one mentoring for especially motivated students. Old Firehouse Arts Center’s Art Attack! is an after-school art program for 15 at-risk students from a Longmont, CO elementary school. The students are from migrant families and recent arrivals to the community. Once the students complete their semester, the gallery will feature the Art Attack! students work, as well as poetry, food and music to attract a multi-ethnic, cross-generational audience. 
Partners of Delta, Montrose & Ouray's Art Partners matches 50 at-risk Colorado youths, ages 12-17, with a screened and trained professional artist in a three-month mentoring apprenticeship. The program includes art exhibitions and workshops. Penasco Theatre Collective’s Summer Youth Circus Arts Workshop is a two week workshop for 40 at-risk youths, ages 6-14, in New Mexico. The youths learn aerials, stilt walking, clowning, puppet making, poetry and visual art, culminating in a public performance. Participants develop the theme from a local environmental or social issue. 
Phoenix Youth Center’s Club Unified is an independent after-school and summer arts program that works with 150 at-risk Fort Wayne, Indiana teens, ages 12-19, to teach them to make positive choices by offering educational opportunities to improve their lives. The program includes poetry, dance, video and visual arts, and music production. Point Breeze Performing Arts Center (PBPAC) offers high-quality performing arts training, community development, and cultural events to help improve the quality of life in the Point Breeze, PA neighborhood and throughout Philadelphia. The PBPAC serves over 1,000 at-risk youths from low-income neighborhoods. The Production Company’s Summer Program offers 400 at-risk youths from Wiggins, CO, ages 5-11, an opportunity to experience the world of art and culture. Classes include dance, art, music and drama. The Santa Fe Opera’s Student-Produced Opera program provides an enriching multi-disciplinary arts learning experience to at least 5,000 at-risk public school students in Northern New Mexico, ages 4-18, through in-school, after school, and summer projects at participating schools. The students create their own operas and perform them at local theaters.  September High School’s After Hours Arts program is a collaborative effort with YMCA’s BreakThrough Arts for 225 Boulder, CO at-risk teens, ages 13-18. Classes are offered five days a week in sessions of 8-10 weeks, with a variety of art forms including photo processing, mixed media, ceramics, dance and performing arts, and music. Classes are free of charge. Settlement Music School's Kaleidoscope Preschool Arts Enrichment Program is a tuition-free arts integrated preschool for inner-city, at-risk children ages 3-5 in Philadelphia, PA. The program includes comprehensive education, music, art, dance, and nutrition.  South Shore Dance Alliance’s Summer Dance Intensive Workshop is a 5-week workshop for 30-40 at-risk Northwest Indiana youths, ages 9-19. Classes include ballet, modern, jazz, tap, and West African dance. South Shore provides scholarships to students as well as summer employment to student teaching assistants. The program promotes social tolerance and growth as well as developing the physical skills for the young dancers. Thorne Ecological Institute's Thorne Natural Science School program is designed to enhance children’s awareness of nature by providing summer courses to 200 at-risk children, ages 3-15, in the Boulder, CO area. Learning takes place through hands-on, science-based, experiential activities as children explore local prairie grasslands, evergreen forests, and other local ecosystems.  Urban Arts of Indianapolis offers classes to more than 45 at-risk youths, ages 6-18, through their Summer Arts Academy and Exploratory Arts programs. Summer Arts Academy is a 6-week program for at-risk high school students, ages 13-18 in Indianapolis, IN. The students have an opportunity to earn as they learn and further develop creative skills under the mentorship of a professional artist. Exploratory Arts allows youths, ages 6-12, to explore the arts through creative activities, identify skills and encourage continued development. Warehouse 21’s Youth Employment Services (YES) program offers at-risk youths in Santa Fe, NM creative mentorship employment and training in marketable skills. They are expanding the silkscreen studio to reach new teens interested in design, fashion and product development. Young Audiences of Indiana’s Inside Arts offers hands-on residencies for at least 300 at-risk youths at the Juvenile Detention Center in Indianapolis, which include music, dance, storytelling, visual arts, literary arts and theatre.
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