Engaging the youth at the Juvenile Detention Center

HOPE Murals JDC, provides adolescent youth, who are currently detained at the Miami Dade county Juvenile Detention Center, with an interactive Art-Based-Youth-Development experience of creative expression via an urban arts visual platform. Our vision is to transform the dull, meek, intimidating, weather-battered institutional walls of the JDC, that represent punishment and confinement for the youth who reside there, to a gallery of beautiful, artistic, motivational canvases.

These transformed walls, filled with inspirational images, symbols and words intended to serve as catalyst for ALL to 'self-reflect', and provoke the critical thought process that lies within, to challenge oneself to examine 'Where am I', 'Where have I come from' and 'Where do I want to go', once my life continues beyond the bars.