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Project Director/Founder:  Joseph Palmer
STAGE: Development

"A Historically Themed Educational and Creative Mentoring Center". We are reaching kids that are creative, think out of the box and who possess unlimited potential, but are not being reached by traditional educational means. Through mentoring and validating their creativity, they will be less likely to turn to drugs, sex and violence, are bored with school and the status-quo.

The Facts

There isn't a high school in the nation that hasn't expressed concerns and frustration for at risk youth who struggle to learn with the traditional means of education, or who, due to financial and family situations that make it difficult to learn.

Utilizing tools and resources available through arts and entertainment as well as business industries
, Village Guild provides trade school training while developing character learning how to develop healthy relationships, character and team skills. 

Providing

  • Experiential learning through onsite and offsite venues incorporating
    • residential camps
    • day camps
    • fairs and special events
  • Creative expression through
    • drama
    • dance
    • theater and independent film making
    • business development
    • entrepreneurial skills
    • literary and writing
  • Outdoor survival and character building
  • Mentoring


It takes courage
to grow up and
turn out to be
who you really are.
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings 1894-1962
American Poet





 

 

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