The Postitive Effects of Arts Enrichment Programs on At-Risk Youth
The Positive Effects of Arts Enrichment Programs on At-Risk Youth
School environments are believed to be a place of distress, not only for integrated students, but also for students who do not fit in with their peer group. Circumstances such as poverty, racial discrimination and language barriers often lead to bullying from peer groups, causing isolation, depression, and lack of self-worth. Students attending school under these circumstances can be at risk for academic failure that can hinder future college and employment opportunities.
Arts enrichment programs have shown to enhance and heal the emotional state of at-risk-youth.[1] A study prepared and produced for the office of Research and Analysis shows that at-risk teenagers and young adults with intensive arts exposure achieve levels of emotion stability and increased learning potential that are closer to, and in some cases exceeding, the levels shown by the general population studied.
A National Endowments for the Arts Research Report Shows At-risk students who have access to the arts in or out of school also tend to have better academic results, better workforce opportunities, and more civic engagement.[2]
Music programs are believed to help students develop psychological resilience. Psychological resilience describes the qualities needed to help students adapt to adverse conditions despite the circumstances that cause them. Involving students in extracurricular activities such as music are important in developing the resilience needed for the adverse conditions occurring in and outside of school.[3][4][5]
Guitars Not Guns is a music program throughout the United States The mission of this program is "We provide guitars and lessons to foster children and at-risk youth in a classroom setting with qualified teachers as an alternative to violence" [6]. Every guitar student is provided with a guitar and lessons for 8 weeks. At the end of the program if students finish their lessons they are given the guitar to keep. The owner of Guitars not Guns, Ray Nelson, and his wife Louise Nelson, began the program in 2000. Ray Nelson was a bay area entertainer and both he and his wife Louise were foster parents. He believed that music would help these at-risk children work out their problems, "give them a guitar and they'll work things out." [7] Ray Nelson wrote a curriculum and The Department of Social Services in California provided them with a site to begin their program.
Guitars Not Guns currently operates 22 chapters within 12 states.[8] According to Louise Nelson, police officers are now teaching guitar to at-risk youth in many areas. The officers teach the classes in full uniform. [9][10]
Rhythm Magic is an interactive music enrichment program created for grammar and high school students, and at-risk-youth, incorporating music with math, science, literacy, social studies and multicultural appreciation through percussion instruments.[11][12]
The Rhythm Magic program demonstrates how percussion instruments are like the differences in many students’ body type, skin color, ethnicity, religion, cultural backgrounds and language. Students are shown how each sound emanating from a percussion instrument is unique, but when blended with other percussion instruments the sound is unified to create a blend of harmonious rhythm and music. Students are encouraged to play the different percussion instruments while listening to how the harmony is created.
In addition to its original program, Rhythm Magic includes the following expansions:
- Rhythm Magic: Drums not Drugs - teaching youth to embrace music not drugs through percussion
- Rhythm Magic: Music in the Workplace - teaching leadership, teamwork, shared vision and community to adults in the workplace through percussion.
Background[edit]
The Rhythm Magic enrichment program offers students an opportunity to feel and play each percussion instrument. As students listen to and play the instruments, they are taught three components:
- Our world as a pulse surrounded by rhythm;
- Our world of color as each percussion instrument has its own individually refined beauty;
- Our world of harmony that takes focus and concentration, and how every part relates to each other;
Rhythm Magic was created in 1994 by percussionist Michael Bayard.[13]
In 1996 the Rhythm Magic music enrichment program was expanded to private corporations and government agencies, calling it Rhythm in the Workplace. Bayard believed that the same concept of teaching students also could also be used to teach leadership, teamwork, shared vision and communication to adults in the workforce.
Since its inception, Rhythm Magic has been brought to over 329,000 students at over 1,000 schools.[14] The Expansion of Rhythm Magic in the workplace has been brought to over 78 companies, corporations, board of directors and state ..heht arcip.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ Torgan, Allie (July 17, 2017). "Where healing happens: helping L.A.'s at-risk youth tell their stories". cnn.com. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
- ↑ "Benefits Music for At-Risk-Youth". www.nemc-partners.com. March 30, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
- ↑ "Healing and mysterious messages". atombash.com. November 25, 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
- ↑ "Theta vibrations healing Sacramento drum circles at Christ Unity Church". echoflam.com. October 8, 2010. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
- ↑ "Red ribbon week starts with a bang - of drums - in Turlock". modbee.com. October 23, 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
- ↑ "Guitars not guns". guitarsnotguns.org. Retrieved 1/5/2018. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ per phone interview on January 10, 2018 with Louise Nelson.
- ↑ "Guitars not guns". guitarsnotguns. Retrieved 1/5/2018. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ per phone interview with Louise Nelson on January 10, 2018
- ↑ "ABC Newsclip, Guitars not Guns". ABCnews7.com. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
- ↑ Piana, Maria (June 1, 1996). "Imagination takes flight at kid's festival". Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on June 1, 1996. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ↑ Nolan, Rebecca (November 28, 1996). "Drummer teaches life's beat percussionists presents his art to area schools". Sacramento Bee subscription required. Archived from the original on November 28, 1996. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ↑ Farrow, Deke (October 23, 2015). "Red ribbon week starts with a bang of drums in Turlock". www.modestobee.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
- ↑ "Artist Trove Michael Bayard". ArtistTrove.com. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
- ↑ Freeman, Katie (March 19, 2009). "More than meets the ear". egcitizen.com.
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