Programs + Services for Schools
The C.A.R.E.S.
Collective
Creative Arts • Relationships • Education • Sound
Powered by KTone Cares FoundationCulture opens the door.
Connection makes the work possible.
The C.A.R.E.S. Collective brings creative arts, relationships, education and sound together to create culturally responsive learning, wellness and youth development experiences for young people.
Creative Arts
Expression + Creativity
Relationships
Connection + Belonging
Education
Life Skills + Leadership
Sound
Music + Creative Craft
What We Offer
Each program can stand on its own or work together as one connected experience inside a school or cohort.
Culturally responsive mental wellness experiences that create space for real conversations around identity, relationships, stress, conflict, emotional wellness and asking for support.
What students experience
What they practice
Living Intentionally for Excellence
A structured 8 week youth development curriculum that uses creative expression, music, guided reflection and group conversation to strengthen emotional awareness, self expression, confidence, relationships, goal setting and sense of purpose.
What students experience
What they practice
A Soulful Sound
Hands on music education where students learn DJing, beat making, music production and the craft of creating music while practicing communication, collaboration, confidence and other social emotional skills.
They aren't just listening to music. They're learning how to create it.
What students experience
What they practice
Therapy in HD™ is a culturally responsive mental wellness and engagement experience. It is not a replacement for therapy, counseling or school based mental health services. The L.I.F.E. framework was developed with research and development support connected to the University of Colorado Boulder.
From Learning to Making
Young people can demonstrate what they are learning through youth selected creative projects.
Colorado Academic Standards Connection
CARES does not replace required classroom instruction. Our experiences create additional opportunities for students to practice and apply competencies reflected in the Colorado Academic Standards through culturally responsive, experiential learning.
Therapy in HD™
Creates opportunities to practice
Comprehensive Health
L.I.F.E.
Creates opportunities to practice
Comprehensive Health + Colorado Essential Skills
Frequency Project
Creates opportunities to practice
Colorado Music Standards + Colorado Essential Skills
Poetry + Anthem Capstones
Connects with Reading, Writing + Communicating
How We Know
CARES uses multiple forms of data to understand what young people experience, what they learn and what they are taking with them.
Pre + Post
Pre and end of program measures allow CARES to examine learning, participant experience and change across a cohort. Depending on the program, data may include pre program responses, end of program responses, participation, attendance, engagement, completion and program specific measures.
Youth Voice
Young people need more than one way to tell us what they experienced. Exit tickets are short session reflections that capture what stood out, what was learned, what participants are carrying forward and what they want us to know.
Demonstrated Learning
Creative projects, final reflections and capstones give young people opportunities to demonstrate learning beyond a traditional survey — poetry, original beats, a cohort anthem, performance and reflection.
Signature Experience
After the Tone is a creative voice based reflection experience that allows young people to pick up the red phone and respond to prompts in their own words — another way to capture immediate reflection, authentic youth voice and qualitative insight.
How we listen should reflect how young people communicate.
Data doesn't always look like a survey.
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Valued culturally aligned support
Real practitioners across the Network
The Creative Wellness Network
Support that can extend beyond the experience.
The Creative Wellness Network connects the CARES ecosystem with culturally responsive wellness professionals, practitioners, mentors and community resources when additional connection or support is appropriate.
Let's Connect
Let's talk about the CARES experience that could fit your school community.
Connect with CAREScsio@ktonecaresfoundation.org