Agency Details:

Youth Spirit Artworks

The mission of Youth Spirit Artworks is to use art to empower and transform the lives of homeless and at-risk youth giving youth the experience, training and self-confidence necessary to meet their full potential.

Description:
Youth Spirit Artworks is a new interfaith social enterprise jobs venture working with homeless and at-risk East Bay youth ages 16-25. Youth Spirit Artworks uses commercial arts job training, and specifically, arts furniture painting, as a vehicle for transforming youth lives.

History:
Youth Spirit Artworks is a new organization modeled after a highly successful non-profit agency in New Orleans called YaYa, which has been involved in working with youth doing arts furniture painting and other commercial arts jobs activities since 1988. Youth Spirit Artworks has developed to meet the enormous needs of homeless and at-risk youth in the East Bay who face incarceration and three strikes sentencing, premature death due to homicide, drug and alcohol addiction, risks of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, joblessness, and other challenges.

Contact person: Sally Hindman, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Address:

1769 Alcatraz Avenue Berkeley, CA 94703 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.YouthSpiritArtworks.org

Directions:

Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Ashby BART,   Walk distance (in minutes): 5   Nearest Bus Stop: 15, 1 minute walk

Last updated on May 20, 2009