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attention due to their high levels of youth engagement that contribute to substantial learning, enhanced critical thinking

such as heightened confidence and sense of agency

Decades of research findings link adolescent engagement, efficacy, and responsibility with opportunities for immersion and mastery, connection in a community of practice, embracing youth voice, and cultivating youth leadership with adolescent engagement, and non-school settings have emerged as crucial developmental and learning environments for youth

Throughout the United States, teen participants in CYD programs assert that the programs saved their lives, putting them on positive trajectories and away from gangs, drug use, crime, and ennui.

The creative process at the center of CYD programs contributes to profound personal growth for youth participants

And as they experience the creative process over an extended period, they learn that they can use it to express their own identities, understand and change the world around them, and connect to the greater human experience.”

community of practice of youth artists and their artist mentors, the paid, professional artists who comprise the full-time faculty. SAY Sí boasts a 100% rate of graduation and pursuit of higher education in a community with a 45% dropout rat

hese programs had a central belief in the ability of young people to achieve and grow artistically and personally through creative expression and skill building in the arts.

impact of arts-based youth programs in reducing risk factors and building protective factors in a study conducted in three American cities

She also catalogued characteristics of effective CYD programs, such as supporting risk within a safe space (

Teens develop intrinsic motivation as they immerse themselves and develop competence in a topic, connect with others who share this interest, and work with educators positioned as senior collaborators—