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THE
COMMUNICATION PROJECT 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 COMMUNICATION PROJECT is a
project-based, arts integrated Arts in Education writing program
created for adolescents at the highest risk for educational
failure in schools, in day treatment and residential placement
programs, in group homes, in long term suspension programs, and
in juvenile justice facilities.
THE
COMMUNICATION PROJECT produces CDs which has involved working
with an engineer in the laundry room of a juvenile facility and
having to stop everything from construction work to basketball
in the gym for sound quality.
THE
COMMUNICATION PROJECT publishes children’s books, books of
poetry, and anthologies of writing by young men and women who
need to improve their reading, their knowledge of the narrative
structure, and their ability to reach out and communicate.
THE
COMMUNICATION PROJECT is interdisciplinary and connects
classrooms to the students' lives. Writing is used to improve
not only basic literacy skills, but to inject a sense of
community belonging, to give students power over the narrative
of their own lives, to reach out with strong, clear voices on
personal and social identity, and to articulate a compelling
vision of how communities and schools can be better places.
THE
COMMUNICATION PROJECT creates art that is a vehicle for
disenfranchised young people to express themselves. The Project
has published over 100 books, including 30 children’s books,
produced 18 CDs, and produced 2 hip-hop theater pieces to enable
young people to reach out with their concerns, their thoughts,
and their unspoken prayers.
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