PICTURING
OUR DREAMS was created by incarcerated youth at Monroe
Correctional Facility working with a NYSLC writer and a NYSLC
visual artist and Rochester City School District teachers. The
dreams were written by incarcerated youth at both Monroe County
Jail and Monroe Correctional Facility. PICTURING
OUR DREAMS wasmade possible with funding from The
Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Foundation. Click here for more info.
NYSLC's Arts, Literacy, and The Classroom Community, a Video by Melanie Hibbert
WXXI News Good News Series: Youth Inmates Share Their Stories By Hélène Biandudi
Nowadays some people have problems at home, then they come to school with
their problems, then they just don’t care about school,
then they just go to school to hustle and smoke weed.
These things affect people and keep them from going to
school. They give up on themselves.
It’s like this, when people have their houses shot at, when people’s
family members die, you just don’t know what you want to
do with your life.
Some people will rob you to get what they need. Some people just need
someone to take care of them and talk to them like they
really care about them and what goes on in their lives.
If we really had people who cared about our lives, maybe
we would go back to school. All we need is someone to
believe in us, to help us, and to help us want to help
ourselves.
NYSLC featured on McGraw-Hill's
College and Career Readiness website.
The New York State Literary Center (NYSLC) is a
Rochester, New York based arts organization that
serves adolescents at the highest risk for
educational failure in schools, residential
placement, long term suspension, juvenile
justice facilities, and jails through
interdisciplinary, collaborative, strength based
arts programs that improve basic literacy
skills, inject a sense of community belonging,
give young people power over the narrative of
their lives, enable young people to reach out
with strong, clear voices on personal and social
identity and articulate a compelling vision of
how communities and schools can be better
places. The NYSLC is committed to deepening
adolescents understanding of the forces that
shape their lives and to help adults better
understand the needs and concerns of all
children.
The NYSLC believes in the potential of all young
people and believes that hip-hop is one of the
greatest and most exciting art forms of our
time. The NYSLC connects the rhyme book to the
classroom.
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will help to ensure this vital program
continues.
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