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Young Storytellers, formerly the Young Storytellers Foundation or YSF, is an arts education non-profit operating primarily in Los Angeles. Young Storytellers currently serves elementary school students in Southern California, including the cities of Los Angeles, Culver City, Santa Monica, and Burbank. YSF targets Title 1 schools; these are schools and school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty in which academic performance tends to be low and the obstacles to raising performance are the greatest. What was started in 1997 with ten children at one elementary school has reached over 6,000 children as of 2012. ==History== Young Storytellers began as a grassroots, in-school mentoring program in 1997 - the brainchild of three students at the American Film Institute; Mikkel Bondesen, Brad Falchuk, and Andrew Barrett. The program was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 2003. Upon learning about cutbacks in funding for creative arts programs in the Los Angeles public schools, Bondesen enlisted the help of Falchuk and Barrett, and together they developed the Young Storytellers Program (YSP). These three writers developed a six-week, one-hour-per-week curriculum. Together with seven additional writers, and school principal Sharon Langman, they offered the first Young Storytellers Program session at the Playa Del Rey School in Venice, California. The program was an immediate success. The original mentors recruited new volunteers, and slowly they expanded the program, adding one or two schools each semester. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Young Storytellers Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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