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Being a Teen is Difficult
Being a successful, productive teen is daunting! Many of the youth we work with are unsuccessful in their daily attempts to ease into adulthood. By anchoring our poetry lessons around confidence, self-esteem, choice, and change, our youth populations have the space to express themselves.
What We Do
Connect with youth who don’t readily trust adults
Increase arts opportunities for youth in low income areas
Encourage positive attitude through poetry & problem solving through creative thinking
Increase community building through soft-skills development
Our Goals
Offer experiences that focus on the sustaining merits of language & poetry.
Teach youth to actively respond to language & poetry while connecting with their actions, feelings & emotions.
Increase community building through self-awareness, choice, confidence, and self-esteem.
Creating Opportunity
With poetry as the foundation for all programming, Hope at Hand provides youth with strategies to support them as they overcome barriers to their successful participation in society. Lessons are carefully designed to engage hard-to-reach youth authentically, blending honest reflection and visions of change through poetry.
Programming focuses on independent wellness strategies that youth can use to strengthen their own self-esteem beyond the scope of the actual lesson. All sessions include opportunities to immerse youth in joy and success, since many of them are rarely involved in ongoing positive experiences… and it all begins with poetry.
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Thank You to Our Donors
The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, The Delores Barr Weaver Legacy Fund, THE PLAYERS Championship, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, The Jim Moran Foundation, Kids Hope Alliance, the City of Jacksonville, AND many individual donors!
We truly love the community that exists in our little big city. Thank you!