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Discovery Program

Through community based collaborations, BuildaBridge’s Discovery program offers after-school and evening arts-integrated educational programs to women, children and youth living in emergency homeless shelters and transitional homes, as well as those attending school and recreational center after school programs. Using the child-centered, hope-infused, trauma-informed BuildaBridge Classroom Model℠, Discovery classes aim to assist students in leading more hopeful, healed, and resilient lives through the discovery of personal and communal strengths, talents, and abilities and the development of academic, artistic, character and social skills.

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