title: "I love ballet": arts incentives for adolescent health and community development.
abstract: Art can be a transformative process that not only offers youth opportunities for self-expression, but enables them to connect to their communities as part of the healing process. Having a public role offers those who are often without power to have a voice and a presence. This chapter provides information on the Arts Incentives Program at the United South End Settlements, a therapeutic, arts-based youth and community development program working with high-risk girls ages eleven to eighteen. Young people engage in community building within the program and become agents of positive community change. In revitalizing their communities, they rebuild a sense of self as essential, valued, and creative, bringing together the resources of participants, agencies, and the community.
authors.affiliation: Arts Incentives Program, United South End Settlements, Boston, USA.
authors.forename: Lisa S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Fliegel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D016497:Adolescent Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D001155:Art Therapy; D001900:Boston; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019058:Community Networks; D003469:Culture; D003614:Dance Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012922:Social Change; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States