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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

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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: info@aonccad.org | Web: www.aonccad.org

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