Urban Art Partnership

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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts, Culture & Humanities, Arts Education, Education, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Literacy

Mission: Urban Arts Partnership (UAP) is a non-profit organization that serves difficult-to-reach youth attending Title I schools in the New York City Department of Education public school system. Its mission is to strengthen public schools by providing arts-based solutions to urban educational issues. A co-founder of four new small schools and contributing innovator in effective arts integration teaching practices, UAP accomplishes its mission though an arts-based holistic model of programming that cultivates the intellectual and socio-emotional development of disadvantaged youth. The organization currently serves 60 Title I schools across the city, including five partner schools in which its comprehensive Creating Minds approach is delivered to advance achievement for struggling students. The Creating Minds program is the synthesis of five defining program strands for school-wide, teacher and student services: 1) Strategic Support, 2) Academic Integration, 3) Youth Development, 4) Credit Recovery, and
5) Advanced Studios. These services offer supports for disengaged students who would otherwise fall behind academically, drop out of school, and have few or no opportunities for a positive future. Funding is currently sought to bolster gaps caused by system-wide NYC DOE budget cuts, as well as recent programmatic initiatives that are in high demand (e.g., UAP’s “Fresh Prep” program proven to increase Regents exam performance is in expansion).

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