Goal 2: Youth STRATEGY 2.1: Expand Extracurricular Opportunity and Connections Increase opportunities, communications, and access for Garland youth of all backgrounds to robust creative activities and programs outside of school.
LEAD AND PARTNERS
ACTION ITEM Communication About Extracurriculars: Convene GISD, City, and creative nonprofit leaders to identify ways to increase outreach to students and their teachers about extracurricular creative volunteer and participation opportunities, and to identify barriers to participation. Specifically explore ways to expand the use fo social media to reach youth abut cultural arts opportunities.
PRCAD, GISD, arts nonprofits, Garland Youth Council
Reduce Barriers to Youth Participation: Reduce barriers to participation for low-income youth. For example, a youth performing arts scholarship, or a modest funding program for transportation for low-income youth to get to extracurricular programs.
GCAC, GISD, PRCAD
Permission Wall: Identify a location for a permission wall for youth to have a place for sanctioned expression
PRCAD, GISD
Identify Gaps: Create GCAC Education Workgroup to coordinate with local school districts, higher education institutions, private schools, and others to collect available data and identify where there are gaps with extracurricular and summer cultural arts programs for youth and potential partners to fill those gaps. Examine both annual and seasonal opportunities to account for the school calendar.
GCAC, GISD, other education institutions, arts nonprofits
Youth-Centered Programming: Support and expand programming at City owned faciltiies that appeal to the tastes and preferences of Millennial and Gen Z young people, to grow Garland's reputation as a place for young upand-comers. This could include programming and highlighting new mediums, from LARPing, to comics, to tattoo art.
Performing arts staff, special events, GCAC, other public, nonprofit, and community partners
Center Student Voices: Collaborate with GISD to find ways to center the voices of students themselves in identifying needs and gaps. Include the points of view of both students who do and do not currently participate in cultural arts extracurriculars.
GCAC, GISD, arts nonprofits, Garland Youth Council
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