ChopArt provides dignity, community, and opportunity to middle and high school aged youth experiencing homelessness through multidisciplinary arts immersion and mentorship.
Support our youth next summer by sponsoring one teen to attend our 1 week residential camp next July! $300 allows one teen to have a bed, food, activities and the experience of a lifetime. They'll be able to build relationships with 100 other homeless youth and find mentors in our professional artist instructors.
This camp is an arts immersion experience in theater, music, and dance. Not only are the youth exploring these art media in their performative aspects, but their behind the scenes components such as production, development and marketing to provide a broader scope of career trajectory. If you want to make this experience possible for a teen experiencing homelessness in Atlanta, please click the button below!
This camp is an arts immersion experience in theater, music, and dance. Not only are the youth exploring these art media in their performative aspects, but their behind the scenes components such as production, development and marketing to provide a broader scope of career trajectory. If you want to make this experience possible for a teen experiencing homelessness in Atlanta, please click the button below!
Get involved!
If you are interested in supporting our mission, please apply online. All volunteers will receive an orientation and training from ChopArt prior to beginning service. Additionally, for the safety and security of our clients, Direct Service volunteer positions require a background check. All background checks are $15 and must be completed before the start date.
If you are interested in supporting our mission, please apply online. All volunteers will receive an orientation and training from ChopArt prior to beginning service. Additionally, for the safety and security of our clients, Direct Service volunteer positions require a background check. All background checks are $15 and must be completed before the start date.
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Why
The need for arts programming catered specifically to homeless youth directly reflects the growing statistics of youth homelessness in Atlanta. The South has the highest percentage of poverty in the nation and Atlanta is the poorest city in the country for youth. As alarming as these numbers are, ChopArt has dedicated our programs to be development, both personally and financially, of our youth to help eradicate generational and absolute poverty and help create productive world citizens. Studies have shown that arts programming in areas |
Impact
Within our impact assessment, ChopArt includes the insights of the community and our students by measuring from parental and facility staff feedback in addition to the feedback of our students. We measure whether or not art therapy has influenced positive self expression and if that has increased positive self-efficacy. Impact assessment officially starts during the midpoint of our program and is run until the completion of scheduled programming. |
"Children are not the face of New York’s homeless. They rarely figure among the panhandlers and bag ladies, war vets and untreated schizophrenics who have long been stock characters in this city of contrasts. Their homelessness is hidden. They spend their days in school, their nights in shelters. They are seen only in glimpses — pulling overstuffed suitcases in the shadow of a tired parent, passing for tourists rather than residents without a home."
-"Invisible Child: Dasani's Homeless Life" New York Times
-"Invisible Child: Dasani's Homeless Life" New York Times
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ChopArt is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Tax ID #: 46-0957706. For more information, contact Malika Whitley, CEO & Founder at (404) 889-9432 or [email protected]
Tax ID #: 46-0957706. For more information, contact Malika Whitley, CEO & Founder at (404) 889-9432 or [email protected]
