YOUTH
INVESTMENTS
(View all current opportunities for youth on our Youth Opportunities page.)
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Restorative Arts​
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The Restorative Arts program is a collaboration between Metro Arts, the Metro Nashville Davidson County Juvenile Court (JJC), and their Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) contracted provider to create an arts-integrated intervention system for court-involved youth that focuses on resiliency, positive youth development, and restoring empowered youth and families.
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Under the leadership of Judge Sheila Calloway, JJC officials support court-involved youth to heal, grow and thrive by assessing each individual’s skills and needs and connecting them and their families to resources aimed at health and well-being. As there is growing evidence that long term, sustained arts learning and arts experiences have deep and lasting positive impact on children’s cognitive development, through this partnership, we are helping to facilitate artists to create programming inclusive of children and youth who have been involved with the justice system. Through these arts interactions, youth develop a growing capacity for emotional attachment, empathy, reasoning, decision-making, trust, self-identity, and self and community esteem.
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Through quality programming that is trauma-informed and anchored in positive youth development practices, the program positions the arts as a part of restorative practice and creates a protective environment for court-involved youth to heal, grow and thrive. Introducing them to a wide variety of art forms (drumming, dance, theater, spoken word, visual art, etc.) not only unlocks their potential by teaching skills in perseverance, self-expression, empathy, community building, but also empowers the youth to make more positive choices.
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FY22 Restorative Arts Guidelines
Contact Equity and Restorative Practices Specialist Marysa LaRowe with questions.
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POWER Youth
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2022 POWER Youth Site Partners | Guidelines​
2022 POWER Youth Student Employment Application
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POWER Youth is a youth employment initiative program of the Metropolitan Action Commission (MAC), a division of the Mayor’s Office. As part of its mission to strengthen the creative workforce and deepen artistic participation in Nashville, Metro Arts partners with the Metro Action Commission to provide project-based work experiences in the arts through the POWER Youth Summer Employment Program for young people ages 14-15 during the summer.
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Opportunity NOW 2021 Arts Host Sites
Read about our 2020 POWER Youth (formerly Opportunity NOW) partners' experiences
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For questions about POWER Youth, please contact Contact Equity and Restorative Practices Specialist Marysa LaRowe.
Diversity in Arts Leadership (DIAL) Internships
Metro Arts partners with Americans for the Arts (AFTA) to host DIAL, a virtual summer professional development experience designed to promote cultural equity in the arts management field. The program seeks undergraduate college candidates from backgrounds underrepresented in arts leadership. Interns are matched with local nonprofit arts organizations and engage in remote work projects that will support the organization and expand the skills and knowledge of the intern.
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2022 DIAL Host Organization Application
2022 DIAL Intern Application
Intern Information from Americans for the Arts
2021 DIAL Interns​
Contact Equity and Restorative Practices Specialist Marysa LaRowe with questions about DIAL.