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Our Programs

Youth Artists Collective

A carefully curated program designed to help young artists explore various career paths in the arts, provide them with hands-on learning opportunities to improve their crafts, and pay youth to complete community-level arts projects. In addition, we teach youth artists entrepreneurial skills so that they learn to earn money for their art and build businesses around their creative skills. 

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Black Girls (EM) Power

During a youth focus group in 2019, participants spoke candidly about how YMAN-sponsored activities for Black girls and young women had made a profound difference for them in terms of increased access to resources and the development of a community-based support system. With their guidance and support, YMAN launched Black Girls (EM)Power (BGE), a leadership development initiative where young Black women meet, build skills and knowledge, and amplify their collective voice and power. 

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Youth Wellness Collaborative

Promotes exercise, mindfulness, life-skills building, and self-empowerment for racialized youth ages 12-25, through partnerships with a community garden, community boxing gym, a youth advocacy organization, therapists, and others.

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IE Youth Power

A region wide-infrastructure that supports the development of young people, both as coalition members and as individual organizers through advanced training and leadership opportunities. These efforts are envisioned as a means of better preparing and empowering young people to become community leaders, as well as promoting long-term systemic improvements at the local and regional levels.

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SEL Day Trips

A space for schools to bring young people for a day of wellness and social-emotional learning. 

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Leadership Retreats

We host youth leadership retreats with the purpose of powering and resourcing the next generation of change-makers. 

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