05/03/2023
The AAO Movement is a Christian founded mentorship program dedicated to mobilizing at-risk youth in Alachua county as healing conquerors of adversity through the creative arts, social justice, and leadership.
We are a collective team of artists, scholars, and entrepreneurs dedicated to inspiring the next generation of youth to become the worlds next artists, activists, leaders, organizers, entrepreneaurs, and changemakers in the arts.
We encourage at-risk youth facing adversity to become apart of The Against All Odds movement so that they can learn to use their stories and gifts to catalyze their own resiliency, to collaborate with like-minded youth in the community, to learn to actively use their voices, and to develop themselves as leaders through the creative arts and culture.
We motivate youth with lived experiences in adversities such as trauma, violence, abuse, homelessness, and poverty and other related adversities to use their gifts as a means of healing and resiliency. Through our programming, we strive to encourage students to find purpose, healing, and meaning through their unique God-given gifts and identities.
Through local community programming, community partnerships, school and after school programming, workshops events, success coaching and more, we strive to prevail against all odds in providing a quality mentorship experience for youth!
