AmeriCorps, Las Cruces, NM

Court Youth Center's (CYC) philosophy of arts-integration and positive youth developement provides in-school and after school visual, performing, literary, and visual arts programs to middle and high school students. AmeriCorps members, all artists in one of the four art forms, are instructors in the program. By participating in CYC's programs the students have opportunities to succeed through non-traditional educational programs.