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The Impact
The Unusual Suspects uses theatre as a tool to heal and empower communities coping with such challenging issues as poverty, unemployment, poor education, and gang violence. Through performing arts mentoring, The Unusual Suspects provides the means and support necessary for youth to develop self-esteem, respect and tolerance of others as well as the communication, coping and behavioral skills necessary to make such positive life choices as staying in school, choosing resolutions over violence, avoiding gang involvement and overcoming difficulties at home.
Key Benefits of The Unusual Suspects Theatre Program
- Improves self-esteem, communication and teamwork skills
- Increases tolerance, positive perspectives, and coping and conflict-resolution skills
- Increases commitment to stay in school
- Decreases physical confrontation, drug use and gang involvement
- Improves academic grades and test scores
- Decreases the rate of re-incarceration and re-arrest among juvenile offenders
Mentoring has proven to be an effective means of combating a range of complex issues:
- 98% of youth mentored stay in school
- 98% of youth mentored did not become a teen parent
- 98% of youth mentored avoided gang participation
- 85% of youth mentored did not use drugs
*Based on study conducted by the California Mentoring Foundation
Among youth who participate in arts enrichment programs in Los Angeles County detention camps compared to those who do not:
- The rate of re-incarceration is 58% lower
- The rate of re-arrest is 45% lower
- The rate of probation violations is 37% lower
- The rate of successful completion of probation is 22% higher
*RAND Corporation data for New Roads New Visions Community Partners
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