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Thank You to our Sponsors for the continued support for the AON Center for Community Arts & Development Comcast | AMPS Magazine Chicago | Nailah Davis Photography | Unity in Action Magazine | One Raw Nation | Eight-Fifteen Creative
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AON CCAD is taking an active stance against negative media and entertainment for youth and young adults. With the development of our new Teen Media Studio, AON CCAD has committed to providing youth and young adults an alternative outlet for creating positive and constructive media and entertainment content to be distributed throughout communities. AON CCAD, AON MeDIA Productions and our partners envision this to be the start of Stopping the Violence throughout our neighborhoods. Help Us fulfill Our Goal of Providing Better Media and Entertainment to Youth and Young Adults.
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AON CCAD Takes an Active Stance Against Violence and Negative Media for Youth and Young Adults
AON CCAD Teen Member Jackie Collins portrays her feelings
of how negative media brainwashes youth today. Her self
produced promo spot for face the music calls for more
content awareness for our youth and young adults. Click to
play
Road To Victory - Video Presentation for local artist Doug
Sub-z Willingham. this song was engineered and recorded
as part of the future producers after-school program AON
CCAD administers that assist youth to engineer and record
positive, uplifting media for their peers.
The winter of 2011 left a community in disbelief as
reports of community leader, father and business owner Joseph
Buckner - 34, was killed from fatal gunshot wounds sustained in
an attempted robbery outside his Kankakee, IL home. Residents
throughout the community gathered for what seemed to be the
first in a long line of candle-light viguals that followed throughout
the spring and summer of 2012 in Illinois.
In direct response to the outpour of community concerns, AON
CCAD formed what would be one of the most well adapted
initiatives of the organizations programming structure.
Concerned citizens and city officials gather at the face the music community meeting held in 2012 to develop an action plan that will help detour violence throughout the communi-ty and help recover from recent shooting sprees.
The Face the MUSIC Movement was initiated with support from city officials, community organization leaders
and the city of Kankakee Police Department. This movements main objective is to call attention to vast amount
of negative and derogatory media and entertainment targeted at youth and young adults and to provide a more
positive and uplifting alternative to youth media while engaging the community in positive, constructive learning
opportunities. The Movements model - Stop the Violence Campaign - targets communities nation-wide that
have issues of violence. In addition, Face the MUSIC Movement has already been adapted by school districts,
social service agencies and youth programming developers as a strategic approach to detouring the spread of
negative behaviors and assistance with retention in youth based programming. Face the MUSIC is more than
just a programmatic approach, our aim is to effect social change throughout communities, in the way young
people accept responsibility with producing content and media on local levels that engages their peer groups and
audiences. With the strategic planning and focus on uplifting of positive events, social streams and individuals,
the mindset of what is socially acceptable as entertainment to youth and young adults will begin to change. As
that mindset changes so will the nature of activities that leads to violence and damaging characteristics among
individuals.
AON Center for Community Arts & Development [AON CCAD] is a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt organization, and contributions or donations made to AON CCAD are deductible for federal income tax purposes. The mission is to transform the lives of individuals through its commitment to education, empowerment, and economic self-reliance. The 3 Core Approach is Eduction, The Arts, and Community.
AON Center for Community Arts & Development | 803 W. Tawney Court | Champaign, Illinois 61820 | Phone: (217) 607-7873 | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.aonccad.org
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