Operating Support
ACHF Arts Access
Provide vital arts programming to at-risk youth at more than 20 shelters, treatment centers and community centers without existing arts programs. Evaluate partnerships through surveys of partner agency staff. Cultivate new partnerships with agencies serving youth who face poverty, homelessness, abuse and mental illness. 2: Deliver art programs to underserved youth ages three to 21 led by a diverse cohort of 600 caring adult mentors and community artists. Weekly mentor surveys will measure the diversity in age, ethnicity and gender of youth participants. Mentor and guest artist recruitment will be structured to reflect the demographic of youth we serve.
Free Arts brought arts programming to more than twenty partner social service agencies, including homeless and domestic abuse shelters, treatment programs, and community centers. Free Arts evaluates the successes of its partnerships through surveys of partner agency staff. These staff members responded positively about the value that Free Arts' programming had on the youth at their sites. 2: Free Arts reached almost 2,000 youth ages 3 to 21 through its arts programming. Free Arts recruited and trained 493 community members and seventeen artists to lead art projects with these youth. Free Arts evaluates youth artistic experience and development through surveys of volunteers, partner site staff, and the youth themselves. These evaluations confirmed youth attained artistic and personal development through Free Arts' programming.
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