TWW INC
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Mission Statement
Our mission & programs is to prepare, challenge the students academically, culturally and socially. Students are helped by the attention we give them, and their budding talents need to be reminded that they are special, and that they can become known and respected by others. We teach them to communicate with their peers in a healthy way, develop a sense of purpose, and build the students’ confidence that they will succeed. The Trails is a story that presents challenging and important cultural themes to engage youth and its relevance today through the arts. In dealing with diversity and multicultural awareness, students recognizing that all the people are unique in their own way. To embrace diversity, make positive use of it, value diversity, and the need to model this attitude to their students. Value diversity, they recognize and respect the fact that people are different and that these differences is generally a good thing.
About This Cause
Founded in 2002, TWW Inc. is a nonprofit valued arts-based organization which foundation is the arts, education, culture, and humanities, ethnic awareness, and art therapy. TWW serves socioeconomically challenged NYC youth from kindergarten through high school. TWW's programs enhance developmental skills and invite students to be high achievers to the best of their abilities. TWW is dedicated to the creative process in which art is healing, life-enhancing, and a fundamental component for development. TWW Inc is dedicated to the belief that the creative process is a key factor in a student's educational experience that enables them to face challenges in which life skills are built. FEATURES AND BENEFITS The Journey is a story that presents challenging and important cultural themes to engage youth about history and its relevance today through the arts. Also, Individuals using creative art forms in therapy. The program will offer a longer, cumulative experience of dance, theater, vocal music, and visual arts. Additional curriculum will be implemented to help address relevant concerns, academic criteria, gender issues, multicultural awareness, mental health, and shared history among a variety of cultures in the United States. Additional activities can be offered such as field trips, guest lecturers, guest artists, volunteer opportunities for parents, and community service opportunities for students. ACADEMIC TWW believes that students who are able to make connections of today's education within a social, cultural, and historical contexts are highly capable of success in their careers and lifelong learning. The Journey supports students by increasing skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, self-advocating, and teamwork by understanding interpersonal interactions with others. The Journey is a residency program led by a team of teaching artists that serves as a balancing liaison between the academic staff and students. They support the learning process by engaging students through their innate skills that helps them be more proactive in learning, build self-reliant, and become socially-conscious of their impact in their community. Why art is crucial brain development and develop mental ability? There is an increasing amount of scientific evidence that proves art enhances brain function. It has an impact on brain wave patterns and emotions, the nervous system, and can actually raise serotonin levels. Art can change a person's outlook and the way they experience the world. It is through exposure to art that a person can begin to think critically. It requires careful decision making, and that increases a person's intelligence. Rewarding hobbies like painting, drawing and photography can reduce a person's stress levels and can help clear the mind. The important role of arts in human development is that the arts are ideally suited to promote this integrated approach. In study after study, arts participation and arts education have been associated with improved cognitive, social, and behavioral outcomes in individuals across the lifespan: in early childhood, in adolescence and young adulthood, and in later years. Skills using the arts develop are Creativity, Confidence, Problem solving, Perseverance, Focus, Non-verbal, Receiving, Collaboration developing. Dedication, Accountability. FINAL GOAL Final outcome and goal, is to expand the minds of students, past the obstacles and to the root of their lifelong learning. The improvement in participants in our past program, work ethics has improved which shows in their overall grades and accomplishments. Boosting their confidence and pride, educators’ site that grade levels have risen as a direct relation to the students’ ability to discipline themselves during school and other areas in their personal lives. With a newfound motivation to better one-self, student, parent and educators leave TWW programs inspired by the messages found within the programs. Students develop strength, confidence and perseverance in the face of adversity, and inspired by the education received to learn more. TWW Inc.’s program is to prepare, challenge the students academically, culturally and socially. As a community organization, providing cultural sensitivity, opportunities for self-expression, understanding the needs within inner city schools. Students are helped by the attention given, their budding talents need to be reminded that they are special, and can become known and respected by others. Learning to communicate with their peers in a healthy way, develop a sense of purpose, and build the confidence that they will succeed. Within the program, there is an intense mentoring program for culturally diverse men and women. The mentoring program is to teach achievement, motivation, mentoring, self-awareness and goal settings. Our mentoring program develops strong minds, bodies, spirit, teamwork, desire, dedication, discipline, respect of one-self and others. Evidence shows that using arts in students’ education provides students with the skills to think creatively, to innovate, and to become tenacious learners ready to solve complex problems. Students who have difficulty participating within a normal class setting due to mental health challenges, TWW Inc. believes that including the expressive arts therapies will promote healthy self-esteem and encourage youth to be well-rounded achievers in all areas of their lives, especially with those who have experiences with under-achievement due to psychological and socioeconomic factors. Friday classes will feature Creative Arts Therapy . Effective Assessments is a partnership with the teachers and school to see how the arts have helped the student in their overall performance in all of their classes. Done by stages, follow the students’ progress from the beginning to end. Look at their schoolwork, tests, and attitudes, and interview with students and work habits (using the assessments) to see if the arts have helped them develop in any or all educational disciplines. Areas such as historical and cultural content about art, the process of creating art, art criticism, expository writing, narrative writing, the creative process, productive behavior, habits, learning and listening styles, all providing tools for student self-assessment and more. Full reports at the end of the program are provided. TWW incorporates the arts into a school's curriculum to increase the ability for students to retain information. Programs in history and culture motivates students to ask questions, research answers, and gain a greater sense of self. Students are helped by the attention received to their budding talents and authentic contribution to the world. TWW teaches respectful communication, purpose, and confidence to succeed. Performance description The Journey performance work that fuses work from the multi-discipline art program. All roads leading to home, and through this performance and exhibition, TWW Inc will illuminate the common threads that bind people and cultures together. There was exchange and infusions as cultures wound their way around each other and similar to so many of today's cultures, the result was a hybrid of a natural result. This work, through dance, music, song, spoken word will give both the performer and audience a rare glimpse into the world of cultural exchange, and personal triumphs, becoming an epiphany that it is possible to arrive to or create, a new home. A strong vibrant cultural voice will speak volumes to this varied Brooklyn community and beyond. BACKGROUND: For nineteen years as a nonprofit, TWW Inc's mission highlights the impact of culture, traditional art-making, and history. In the past, TWW partnered with Children’s Aid Society, TASC, Beacon, and the Queens Library. These objectives are expressed within the communities and its intertwining relationships in the Latin American, Native American, Caribbean, American, and African communities. Communities served by TWW Inc. primarily are the underserved communities of East New York, Brownsville, and Bedford Stuyvesant, as well as neighborhoods in the Bronx. Work has also been done in Canada. Through the work of professional and international teaching artists, The Trails is a unique learning approach to how these cultures created paths that led to their shared American experience. • Served over 6,000 in class students. • Provided jobs and professional development training for 100 artists and teachers • Initial themes entailed Native and African culture for after-school programming for students in grades K-5. • Grew to The Middle Passage Part I and Part II (Slave Narratives) for JHS and HS students. Within that, Mentoring program. Building youths in confidence, support, communication, and growth within themselves and their peers. • From the Passage program, The Trails Coming Home program. Using arts program for all grades in a more diverse way of educational and personal growth with more diversity and multi-cultural awareness by understanding cultures from around the world, their history and shared history. • 2016 -Creative Arts Therapy “The Road to Empowerment” for students who cannot participate in a regular program due to mental health challenges. This allows them to participate in other ways without feeling left out, building their self-confidence and other forms of developments. • 2018 - The Nina Simone Program. • Current – The Journey – a continuation of The Middle Passage, and The Trails Coming Home.