In response to COVID-19, AEP is actively working with organizations involved in the arts and juvenile justice to share resources and insights on best supporting youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system, including youth in detention centers, during these difficult and unknown times.
RESOURCES FROM AEP + ORGANIZATIONS WORKING IN JUVENILE JUSTICE
Expanding the Arts Across the Juvenile Justice System
This Policy Brief captures the discussion, insights and policy considerations that came out of a Thinkers Meeting with 11 experts in the arts education and juvenile justice fields. It builds on the report, “Engaging the Arts Across the Juvenile Justice System,” by providing examples for building sustainable, arts-based programming.
Engaging the Arts Across the Juvenile Justice System
This Special Report explores research and programs that employ the arts along the juvenile justice continuum: in prevention, intervention, transition and healing.
Virtually Free: Arts Education and Juvenile Justice (AEP 2020 Virtual Gathering Plenary Session Recording)
This plenary session shares conversation with the “Virtually Free” film’s producer, director and teaching artists to learn more about how this film can be used to inspire juvenile justice reform.
Engaging the Arts for Positive Youth Outcomes (Webinar)
AEP Project Manager Krystal Johnson joins the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services and the Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators to discuss positive youth outcomes by engaging the arts across the juvenile justice system.
Conversation With AEP and Performing Statistics (Facebook Live Event)
AEP Project Manager Krystal Johnson joins Mark Strandquist and Gina Lyles from Performing Statistics in a conversation on the intersection of arts education and juvenile justice, moderated by AEP Project Manager Cassandra Quillen.
- American Youth Policy Forum
- Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings
- Center for Juvenile Justice Reform
- Coalition for Juvenile Justice
- The Council of State Governments Justice Center
- Federal Interagency Reentry Council
- Juvenile Law Center
- National Center for Youth Opportunity and Justice
- National Juvenile Justice Network
- National Partnership for Juvenile Services
- The National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- Youth First (No Kids in Prison)
- 50-State Comparison: State Financial Aid Barriers for Students Impacted by the Justice System (Education Commission of the States)
- Alternative School Discipline Strategies (Education Commission of the States)
- State and Federal Policy: Incarcerated youth (Education Commission of the States)
- State Financial Aid Barriers for Students Impacted by the Justice System (Education Commission of the States)
- State Information Request: Connections Between Early Childhood Education, Substance Abuse and Crime (Education Commission of the States)
- Education for Youth Under Formal Supervision of the Juvenile Justice System (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Reauthorization 2018 (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)
- Risk Factors and Protective Factors (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)
- Creative Youth Development: Transforming the Learning Environment (Arts Education Partnership)
- Creative Youth Development Toolkit (Americans for the Arts)
- Resource Collection (Create Justice)
- Prison Arts Resource Project (National Endowment for the Arts)
- Arts-Based Programs and Arts Therapies for At-Risk, Justice-Involved, and Traumatized Youths (National Endowment for the Arts and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)
- Healing-Centered Practices Through Creative Youth Development (Webinar, National Guild for Community Arts Education)
- Performing Statistics: Reflecting on Three Years at the Intersection of Art & Activism (Performing Statistics)
- “Virtually Free” Film ‘Host a Workshop’ Includes access to standards-based curricula and discussion. If you have any questions, AEP can connect you with the producers. (Shine Global)
- Positive Youth Development (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
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- Alabama
Shelby County Arts Council*
- Alabama
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- California
Each One Reach One*
Los Angeles County Arts Education Collective (County of Los Angeles)*
InsideOUT Writers
Mount Saint Mary’s University
Public Works Group*
Rhythm Arts Alliance
Street Poets, Inc.*
San Francisco WritersCorps (City and County of San Francisco)*
Theatre of Hearts, Inc. (Theatre of Hearts Youth First)*
- California
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- Georgia
Deep Center*
- Georgia
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- Illinois
Arts Healing Trauma (Urban Gateways)
Fifth House Ensemble*
Free Write Arts & Literacy NFP*
Storycatchers Theatre*
- Illinois
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- Louisiana
The Roots of Music
- Louisiana
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- Massachusetts
Raw Art Works
- Massachusetts
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- Maryland
Baltimore Youth Arts
Artivate Inc.*
- Maryland
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- Nebraska
Pathfinder Education Program
- Nebraska
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- New York
Herstory Writers Workshop. Inc.*
NeON Arts (New York City Department of Probation, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute)
NY Writers Coalition Inc.*
Drama Club, Inc.*
Found Sound Nation*
Shine Global, Inc.*
- New York
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- Ohio
Bridging the Gap (Cincinnati Arts and Technology Studios)
- Ohio
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- Oregon
My Voice Music
- Oregon
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- Tennessee
Blues City Cultural Center (BCCC)*
- Tennessee
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- Utah
Spy Hop Productions*
- Utah
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- Virginia
Performing Statistics
- Virginia
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- Washington
Cultural Development Authority of King County*
Freehold Theatre Lab Studio*
- Washington
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- Wisconsin
Express Yourself Milwaukee Inc (EXYOMKE)*
- Wisconsin
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- (Multi-State) California, Indiana, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia
Transforming Juvenile Probation Certificate Program (Annie E. Casey Foundation, Georgetown University’s Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Council of State Governments Justice Center)
- (Multi-State) California, Indiana, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia
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- National
Aim High Grant Program (New York Life Foundation and Afterschool Alliance)
Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program (Art Resources Transfer) -
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