11/26/2025
"This is a good place. And I like all the teachers. And they take care of us." - Santiago, 2nd grade. 👩🏽🏫💕
Our After School Arts Program is not just a place for youth to experience the arts. It's much more than that. Our program takes place in a low-income housing complex, where many of the families are single parent households, working multiple jobs, or food insecure. Cultural Coalition also helps these families by providing a safe space for their children to come to when they get home from school.
They make friends with other kids in the building, learn from S.T.E.A.M. mentors in the areas of music and robotics, and create trusting relationships with our teaching artists who help them with their homework and provide daily encouragement and support for them creatively, academically, and emotionally.
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According to a new report from the Wallace Foundation - Creative Expression, Caring Relationships, and Career Pathways: A Guide to Youth Outcomes in Community Arts Programs, they had two main take aways from youth who were part of their study.
1. Relational outcomes, which shape how arts program participants interact with peers and mentors and come to understand themselves, their community, and their environment. For example, nearly everyone interviewed said their participation in arts programs helped them build enduring friendships and grow as people.
2. Opportunity outcomes, which are the ways arts programs help young people envision adulthood and pursue careers. These include the development of workplace skills and exposure to cultural and educational resources that highlight potential careers and other opportunities for young people.