Fostering Resilience Among Youth in Inner City Community Arts Centers

The Case of the Artists Collective

Bibliographic Data

ID9729562
AuthorsAlison M Rhodes (Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, Cambridge, MA, USA, corresponding author), Rachel Schechter (Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA), Rachel L Schechter (0000-0001-9061-2892, Tufts University)
Year2014
Volume46
Issue7
Pages826-848
Publication date2014-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducation and Urban Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0013124512469816
OpenAlexW1981690348
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited47

Growing up in an inner city environment can inhibit healthy development and have detrimental consequences for children and adolescents such as increased risks for many social and psychological problems. This article explores the role of community arts centers in fostering resilience among youth living in the inner city. A review of the literature of risk factors associated with growing up in an inner city environment provides a rationale for the need for interventions that promote resilience by creating a refuge from the surrounding poverty and violence, and which strengthen youth’s personal and social resources. We examine the case of the Artists Collective, an inner city community arts center in Hartford, Connecticut, and propose that there are three components of community arts centers that contribute to youths’ resilience. First, features of the physical space promote resilience. Second, they are a place where prosocial relationships and social capital contributing to resilient functioning can be formed. Finally, we hypothesize that learning about and participating in the arts fosters resilience through the development of person-level protective factors such as self-efficacy, improved emotional regulation, social skills, coping skills, and ethnic pride

Community resilience · Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Political science · Positive Youth Development · Poverty · Pride · Prosocial behavior · Psychological intervention · Psychological resilience · Resource (disambiguation · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health · Social Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support

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