Click here to learn about our "Create A Mural Now" workshops, where youth work as a team to design and create a mural. The theme can fit your needs. Each project culminates with a party and gift bags for all participants.

Programs - Creative Arts Heal & Transform Lives

We give youth the support and tools needed to make a positive difference in their lives and community by:

• Promoting literacy, education, healthy attitudes, and behavior
• Providing troubled youth with career goals, materials and jobs
• Building self-esteem and confidence through creative arts
• Allowing caring adults to make a difference through mentoring

Create Now has five main program areas:

1. Take Heart - therapeutic visual arts program

2. Write Now - creative writing and literacy program

3. Sound Off - interactive music program

4. Artistic Journeys - cultural excursions to concerts, art exhibits, theaters and more

5. Show Off - performing arts, including acting, dance, theater and video

Our programs vary from one-day events to longer-term workshops of eight to twelve weeks or several years. All programs are customized to meet the needs of the youth, as well as our volunteers. Mentoring can be with small groups of youth, or one-on-one. We help our mentors to develop curriculum for their particular art, which provides an overview of the workshop with interactive projects.