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Reviewed by: cabs
on 02/11/10:
Mission
Youth Action Coalition (YAC) promotes youth empowerment through creative expression, community building, and social action initiatives.
YAC’s core program, Arts-for-Change (AfC), is a series of distinct arts and media projects that pair intensive arts immersion with social justice education. AfC provides youth from across the race/class/social spectrum access to free, high quality arts programming, helping youth break down barriers, and offering a safe space for shared dialogue and collaboration. AfC youth are putting their voices and visions out to the community, and building themselves as visionary leaders and agents of change.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
Amherst and Ware, MA and the surrounding communities
Target demographics:
Our arts and media projects bring together youth from across the race/class/social spectrum, ages 12-18, offering access to free, high quality arts programming, helping youth break down barriers, and offering a safe space for shared dialogue and creative collaboration.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Arts-for-Change programs serves 60-80 young people annually
Indirect beneficiaries per year: Through our outreach initiatives—exhibitions, conference presentations, screenings, broadcasts on our local cable access stations in Amherst and Ware—we are truly reaching thousands, and the ripple effect of our work is spread throughout the community.