JHP Community Center’s
LIFE ARTS PROGRAMS
“Teaching Life Through the ARTS”
The JHPCC is now offering After School Programming that not only assist youth with academic tutoring but also incorporates seven different Life Arts Programs.
It is the mission of the JHP Community Center to assist and provide youth in the inner city communities an opportunity to develop values and skills that will enable them to prevent and cope with negative influences throughout their lives. The Life Arts Programs is one vehicle designed to teach youth positive values, principles, and skills through the ARTS. The Program covers different art forms, which will allow youth to incorporate or adapt an art most suited to their interest or aptitude. It is through these studies and activities that will help youth establish a positive foundation of values, which they will carry throughout their lives into adulthood.
The programs are designed to be on-going, that if the youth chooses he or she could develop these skills into a career. The JHP Community Center is also looking to put a job placement center in place to assist these youth in finding jobs as they reach adulthood. The programs each start at different levels depending on the youth’s age and development. Each program allows some form of advancement providing a goal or reward system in order to motivate the youth to stay and continue with the program.
All the programs include evaluations of each youth in the program in order to identify strengths and weaknesses as well as assist in identifying other services that the youth may require that the JHP Community Center may not service. Collaborations to provide other services such as scholarship programs, clinical services, social and behavioral services, financial aid, access to state and federal assistance programs, and other agencies that may assist in keeping the well being of the youth are an integral part in the success of these programs.
Life Arts is primarily designed to be a platform from which youth are able to identify and express themselves in an environment that fosters their creativity without threat from negative outside influences. This platform opens the door for the youth to be taught and guided to positive endeavors through the teachers and mentors provided through the program.
The ARTS PROGRAare offered as after school activities. The activities become an expression of movement through different mediums. The youth learns to express and channel their creative energy by expressing emotions and actions through the different skills they develop. Each skill is adapted to the individual youth’s strengths and weaknesses and the teachings are imparted in such a way that youth retain a sense of value not only in themselves but in their teachers and mentors.
