Violence Solutions To Youth Through Dream Factory

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“Long-term engagement with a financial outcome is key to finding solutions to youth violence.”

A Solution To Violence For Chicago Youth

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Some children become a part of street violence and participate in reckless activity, mainly because they are left along with nothing to do. These young people ultimately join gangs trying to create families, searching for what they do not get at home or from their community.

We at Chicago Village Project have developed two core programs to redirect youth who are on this troubled path. The first is called “XCORE Young Men Initiative” and the second is “More Than Dust”, this program is designed for young women. These two programs nurture their inner strengths, define purpose and focus their mind on the core reasons of why they are here. But the problem that pulls so many young men and women to the streets is poverty or the lack of money. And most programs out here understand this problem, but are limited to how many “Brick & Mortar” opportunities they can offer to participates. So we have been developing over the past few years an enviroment for youth to produce and develop content, for “cloud-based” opportunities that are unlimited, that can bring them long-term financial security.

Violence Solutions | LIVE Web Radio Station | Chicago Village Project

Violence Solutions | Recording Studio Concept | Chicago Village Project

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Chicago Village Project (CVP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All gifts are tax-deductible.

Dream Factory Media Art Center will be a digital incubator & training facility for youth and will act as one of many solutions to violence we would bring to Chicago’s Auburn/Gresham community. Youth will be trained in 4 specific areas; music, film & video, gaming, and fashion. These are markets most youth spend their time and money. Our training would focus on these 4 industries and how to monetizes the products and services participate created. For marketing, we would use LIVE PPV (pay-per-view) streaming, the internet & social media and the massive mobile platform.

Dream Factory Youth Training:

Music (Production & Engineer, Sound, Lighting, Stage)
Film/Video (Short Films, Music Videos, Youtube Producers, Documentaries)
Gaming (Local/National/Int. Competition, Game Development)
Fashion (Modeling, Design, Runway Productions)

As participates, youth would also receive training in content ownership and how to use technology such as social media to widen the exposure of their brand. The mobile platform (4.93 billion users worldwide as of this year) would be the hub of their business and act as the centerpiece for most of the marketing and selling of their products and services.

Dream Factory Media Art Center training and activities would be all year round, with a large number of classes concentrated on building their skills in filmmaking & production. This would give youth the opportunity to create their own projects, Youtube channels and take part in the growing film industry here in Chicago. Over the past several years Chicago has been home to the television series Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Chicago Meds and the Fox series Empire, filmed in part from the second largest film studio in the country, CineSpace Chicago. Chicago has also been the host to several blockbuster films over a decade, below is a partial list of major and indies productions filmed here.

For we as Americans to effectively create solutions to violence in our communities, they must provide a means of satisfying the financial needs of youth as they mature into adulthood. The problem of poverty is what pulls so many to the streets and some to a violent end, Dream Factory Media Art Center can give them the opportunity to independents and a better future.

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