Author: Heather J. Clawson and Kathleen Coolbaugh

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Media Type: Periodical (article)

Summary:

The YouthARTS Development Project, ini-tiated in 1995, is a collaborative effort among Federal agencies, national arts or-ganizations, and a consortium of three local arts agencies in Atlanta, GA; Portland, OR; and San Antonio, TX, designed to identify, implement, and refine effective arts-based delinquency prevention pro-grams. To support this purpose and, at the same time, to provide much needed information to the broader arts com-munity about the efficacy of such pro-grams, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) part-nered in 1995 to conduct a national evalu-ation of the project.

Abstract:

The YouthARTS Development Project, ini-tiated in 1995, is a collaborative effort among Federal agencies, national arts or-ganizations, and a consortium of three local arts agencies in Atlanta, GA; Portland, OR; and San Antonio, TX, designed to identify, implement, and refine effective arts-based delinquency prevention pro-grams. To support this purpose and, at the same time, to provide much needed information to the broader arts com-munity about the efficacy of such pro-grams, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) part-nered in 1995 to conduct a national evalu-ation of the project.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Creative Youth Development, Arts Education