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Arts Infusion Initiative, 2010-15: Evaluation Report

by Annie Gurvis; Carla Vasquez-Noriega; Caroline Ross; Ellen Paddock; Jeanette Hussemann; Jennifer Yahner; Lilly Yu

Mar 6, 2016
  • Arts and Culture
  • Children and Youth

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For youth involved in the criminal justice system, a better future depends on improving their social and emotional learning skills -- skills like conflict resolution, career readiness and preparation for the future. An assessment by the Urban Institute shows how the Arts Infusion Initiative helped achieve just that for young people detained in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC), and for high-risk youth in the Lawndale, Little Village, Back of the Yards and South Shore communities. From 2010 to 2015, this catalytic approach to restoring the peace for Chicago's youth supported 14 nonprofits providing teens with rigorous arts instruction, infused with social and emotional learning goals. Funded by The Chicago Community Trust, the $2.5 million Initiative built collaborations with the Chicago Police Department, Chicago Public Schools, and Northwestern and Loyola Universities. The Urban Institute's mixed-method evaluation (2.9MB), commissioned by the National Guild for Community Arts Education with funding from the Trust, concluded that "the fields of education, juvenile justice and family and youth services can benefit tremendously from the emergent approaches embodied in the Arts Infusion Initiative." Among the successes their research revealed:

  • Participants showed substantial improvements in social and emotional learning skills, as measured by conflict resolution, future orientation, critical response and career readiness. Improvements ranged from 27% in conflict resolution and career readiness, to 29% for critical response and 36% for future orientation.
  • The initiative helped foster collaboration between program directors, public schools, community policing and the detention center. Examples include the Trust and the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy program working together to open a high-tech digital music lab at JTDC. Chicago Public Schools' plan for a new Digital Arts Career Academy for at-risk and court-involved high school youth is a direct result of the positive effects Arts Infusion had on youth, and of the relationship forged between CPS and the Trust.
  • The program exposed at-risk youth to new skills and technologies that opened their minds to a positive future. Arts Infusion grants enabled many participating programs to purchase -- often for the first time -- modern, professional-grade equipment to which many youth had never been exposed. Better Boys Foundation used its funding to purchase enough modern film lab equipment to serve a full 17-student class -- previous classes had only one camera to share among all students.

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  • Urban Institute
  • National Guild for Community Arts Education

Funded By

  • Chicago Community Trust

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  • Copyright 2016 by Urban Institute. All rights reserved.

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  • Report/Whitepaper

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  • English

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  • North America / United States (Midwestern) / Illinois / Cook County / Chicago
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Title: Arts Infusion Initiative, 2010-15: Evaluation Report
Publication date 2016-03-06
Publication Year 2016
Authors Annie Gurvis , Carla Vasquez-Noriega , Caroline Ross , Ellen Paddock , Jeanette Hussemann , Jennifer Yahner , Lilly Yu
Copyright holder(s) Urban Institute , National Guild for Community Arts Education
Geographical Focus North America / United States (Midwestern) / Illinois / Cook County / Chicago
Keywords teaching artists , youth , career readiness , arts , emotional learning
Document type Report/Whitepaper
Language English
URL: https://feedingamerica.issuelab.org/resource/arts-infusion-initiative-2010-15-evaluation-report.html
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