Detroit Excellence in Youth Arts (DEYA) fosters cross-sector collaboration to ensure that all youth have equitable access to Detroit’s rich cultural heritage and the transformative power of the arts. DEYA convenes the city’s youth arts sector to create greater collective capacity – in schools and the community – to support Detroit youth in finding their voice, developing social-emotional learning and transferable workplace skills, and forging pathways to post-secondary education, creative careers, and economic mobility through the arts.
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DEYA KEY STRATEGIES
Driving advocacy and investment to promote youth arts’ essential role in education, youth development, and workforce development, and to unlock new resources to ensure the youth arts sector’s long-term vitality.
Catalyzing collaborative platforms and networks to amplify and empower youth, youth arts providers, teaching artists and arts educators.
Coordinating entities throughout the city to tackle systems and infrastructure issues creating barriers to arts participation for Detroit youth and families.
Providing data and community-based research to identify patterns and macro-level gaps, identify inequities, and inform policy and practice change.