History of YEAH8
Our mission is to provide students with fun, stimulating, and quality learning experiences through integrated arts (visual arts & graphics, dance, drama, music), technology training, and correlated physical activities & sports. To continue innovative programs that are inclusive of the community, parents, and schools, and most of all students.
Mission Statement
Vision Statement
We have a vision that all students participating in our program are motivated and have an enriching experience with a better understanding of academics, the arts, technology, & healthy lifestyles through positive communication skills, activities, and goal achievement based on love and respect for oneself. We provide support to ALL youth including disadvantaged youth & parents of low-income families. We strive in the development of sound character and improve self-efficiency skills.
About YEAH8 Arts & Motion
The history of YEAH8 Arts & Motion Enrichment Program is a community based organization that was formed in 2010. The organization is a youth & young adult organization that encourages all who participate in the program with access to the latest developments in technology, STEM Curriculum, and reading.
The staff and volunteers are former educators, community activists, parents, and prevention / intervention specialists who have come together for the purpose of bridging the gap between young people and the adults who love them. YEAH8 Arts & Motion Enrichment Programs are designed to create innovative programming to connect with disadvantaged youth through arts integration and physical education, a multi-dimensional learning program, and life skills throughout the academic year and summer months.
This approach builds a unique platform for balanced growth through intellectual, emotional, social, physical grounding and functioning. We also provide information about abstinence, teen pregnancy and births, or associated sexual outcome behavior, along with healthy living and nutrition in the efforts to reduce juvenile diabetes and reducing risk factors for obesity related chronic diseases.
About Jefferson County
Situated in Central Arkansas, the largest city in the county is Pine Bluff, which is the ninth largest city in the state. The city has a population of approximately 40,000 residents. The demographics of Pine Bluff consists of 75% African-American, with the rest split between Caucasian, Mexican-American, & Filipinos. Forbes magazine has the city as one of America's most impoverished cities with as much as 1/3 living below the poverty line.