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Where
Are Our Kids From 3 to 6 pm…and Beyond? is a national initiative
to promote quality mentoring and youth development programs for low-income,
inner-city kids. 
Photographers Andre Lambertson and Craig Paulson spent almost two years documenting ten innovative youth development programs that have transformed the lives of thousands of low-income kids in New York City – some of whom are homeless, in foster care, physically disabled or new immigrants learning English as a second language.
The result is a series of artistically compelling black and white photographs that powerfully illustrate unique approaches to reaching kids through the arts, academics, film, communications, media, photography, writing, culture, computers, technology, legal education, sports and self-advocacy. The photos celebrate the resounding impact of successful mentoring on “at-risk” youth during in-school and critical out-of-school time hours and the reciprocal bonds of friendship, engagement and support that are developed between mentors and their protégés.
The following youth programs featured in Where Are Our Kids From 3 to 6 pm…and Beyond? are exceptional models of successful youth development and mentoring that can be replicated in inner cities across the United States:
nd their families in low-income communities helps bridge the "digital divide."
civil rights and responsibilities between parent and child, student and teacher, citizen and police.
Make A Better Place - Arts and literacy program utilizing visual journals with photography and writing that focuses youths’ attention on their role in their community and their ability to effect positive change.
No
Child Photo/Book ProjectPhotographs
taken for Where Are Our Kids From 3 to 6 pm…and Beyond? will
be published in a high quality coffee table book designed by Dayna
Lee, a greeting card line, a calendar and a web-based presentation.
The coffee table book will include contributions (art work, poetry
and prose writing) done by kids from the featured programs, written
statements by nationally renown youth advocates and celebrities; and
resource information for local and national youth networks. Proceeds
for the book project will go to the 10 featured programs.
Click here to schedule a presentation
of "Where Are Our Kids From 3 to 6 pm…and
Beyond?" to community leaders and youth advocates in your city.
Message from
Karen, re "Where Are Our Kids From 3 to 6pm...and Beyond?
The systemic inequities of poverty relegate too many of America's inner-city children and youth to conditions of vulnerability and challenge. The statistics are alarming: over 50% of public school students in New York City live below the poverty line; the national average graduation rate for Black boys is 47%; and the rate of incarceration for African-American and Latino males ages 14 to 21 is at an epidemic proportion.
Successful youth development programs that serve inner-city kids help to counter these daunting statistics by providing innovative, organized activities and quality mentoring, especially during crucial out-of-school time hours when kids in low-income communities are often left with little or no supervision and guidance; when they can be bored and easily swayed into drugs, gangs, violence and unproductive, delinquent activities. While effective youth programs can not be seen as the panacea for violence prevention, proper parenting and individual responsibility, the reality across America's inner cities today is this: our youth desperately need nurturing relationships with responsible adult mentors and viable alternatives to delinquency, apathy and violence.
The sad fact is that most inner-city kids are not motivated to get involved in quality youth development and mentoring programs. Print and broadcast media outlets rarely feature dynamic images of inner-city youth engaged in positive activities; and thousands of low-income parents, foster parents and guardians don't know what programs exist, they believe they may cost money or they don't understand how they can benefit kids. A priority then is for youth advocates and leaders to adopt progressive approaches to youth messaging that are in sync with contemporary youth aesthetics.
Where Are Our Kids From 3 to 6 pm...and Beyond? photographs address a common dilemma facing youth advocates and leaders nation-wide: how to disseminate a youth empowerment message that appeals to kids in the most challenged and vulnerable urban communities. Kids in the 3 to 6 pm... photos exude a confident, spirited and vital attitude. Many of the young people profiled wear hip, "cool", "real" garments but they are also engaged in productive activities and their contributions of writing and/or art work communicate positive values (like family, education, responsibility, friendship and hard work). The images taken are progressive, cutting-edge and vital, leveraging youth “hip-hop” aesthetics to propagate messages of youth empowerment.
I look forward to sharing the “Where Are Our Kids From 3 to 6 pm...and Beyond?” initiative and to spreading its mission of promoting quality youth development programs and mentoring for inner city kids across the United States.
Karen Williams, President
No Child Is Somebody Else's Child, Inc.
To
schedule a presentation of Where Are Our Kids From 3 to 6 pm…and
Beyond?
RESOURCES FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND MENTORING PROGRAMS
The Afterschool Alliance
Annie E.
Casey KIDS COUNT 2005 Data Book
Catalog
for Giving
of New York City
Friends
of Island Academy
Harvard Family Research Project
(HFRP)
MENTOR
National
Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST)
National
Youth Development Information Center
The Mentoring Partnership
of New York
Partnership for After
School Education
Youth Development Institute
21 st Century Classical Arts Education Program
No Child collaborated with classical pianist Soheil Nasseri
to create and develop a music education program for New York City public
schools that has resulted in over 20,000 middle and high school students
being exposed to classical music and attending free concerts at Lincoln
Center.
See the ABC news clip and articles about the music program:
http://www.soheilnasseri.com/press.html
Community Mural Project, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Mission : To implement a program that enriches children's exposure to the arts and engages young people in a neighborhood beautification effort that restores a sense of community and cultural pride. Description: A summer-workshop program led by Brooklyn-based artist Rosalia Bermudez that engages children in the Prospect Heights community in the renovation of the P.S. 241 mural on Carroll Street. This project incorporates multi-cultural themes that are relevant to the kids' lives and exposes participants to a number of educational processes and techniques (basic drawing, painting and photography skills), and to the challenges of problem solving in bringing a project from concept to completion. |
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Treasure Beach Arts Initiative, Jamaica, W.I.
Mission: To design and facilitate the implementation of workshop-based arts programs
that serve as relevant vehicles of social engagement, artistic exploration and cultural
expression for rural children in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica.
Description: No Child is collaborating with BREDS (www.breds.org), a Jamaica-based non-profit organization, to develop and incorporate arts based programming in the curriculum of Sandy Bank Primary School in Treasure Beach, Jamaica.
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Description: No Child will collaborate with BREDS (www.breds.org), a Jamaica-based non-profit organization, and the Khanya Project (www.khanya.co.za), a non-profit organization based in Cape Town, South Africa to produce an Internet based arts exchange program between primary (elementary) school age children in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, Cape Town, South Africa and Brooklyn, New York. Execution Strategy
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Afro-Latin Film/Video Showcase
No Child is producing an Afro-Latin film/video showcase in Honduras and Peru for Afro-descendant youth.