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Bay Area Creative showcases ‘Unheard Voices’ program, seeks funding for juvenile hall workshops
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Mike Taylor, executive director of Bay Area Creative, presented the organization’s Unheard Voices poetry-exchange program and led a condensed writing workshop for commissioners, saying an anthology cost about $4,000 and that sustaining one weekly juvenile-hall cohort would cost roughly $20,000.
Mike Taylor, executive director of Bay Area Creative, told the San Mateo County Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention commissions on Feb. 24 that the arts nonprofit’s Unheard Voices program pairs juvenile-hall youth with high-school students to produce a three-round poetry exchange intended to foster empathy and social-emotional learning.
Taylor described the program’s structure and reported that in one recent cycle roughly 20 juvenile-hall youth took part and about 200 high-school students submitted responses. He said the anthology the organization produced from the work cost about $4,000 to print and that delivering a sustained weekly program for one juvenile-hall cohort — including regular visits and wraparound support —…
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