Programs

Juvenile Treatment Court

VisionWorkshops’ Juvenile Treatment Court program serves youth from the Drug Court of Anne Arundel County. Insights: The Identity Project, gives kids a chance to express themselves through words and black and white self-portraits.

Students explore issues of self esteem through photography and learn the craft of printing in the darkroom from experienced mentors in the field of photojournalism. They exhibit their work and are given the opportunity to create and display positive images of themselves to their families and communities. Often, these young people are at a turning point in their lives, and the VisionWorkshops experience can have a lasting impression on their sense of identity and self worth.

We ask the students to describe themselves to others, who may know them simply as kids who have gotten into trouble. We ask them to focus on their strengths and their values, to make a sketch of themselves with words and pictures.

VisionWorkshops’ Juvenile Treatment Court program is funded in part by the Carol M. Jacobsohn Foundation, and is held in darkroom and classroom space donated by Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis.