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Walk through what we are, what we believe, and what we're building. Every room holds a piece of the movement.
Our mission is to transform the lives of youth by using creative expression as the driving force for personal transformation. Through the development of Leadership, Identity, Ownership, Navigation, and Structure, we equip youth who are ready to risk becoming more with the confidence, discipline, and direction to conquer their obstacles and create the future they envision.
They walk to uswith problems
They walk with usto develop their creative expression as a weapon
They walk awayfully equipped to achieve beyond the obstacles they face
Graphite studies · Keeyon L. Howard
A Cry for Freedom Without Freedom to CryBy Keeyon HowardYoung people told me creative expression gave them a voice they never had. They cry out to be free, but crying out gets them judged as weak. This piece is my ode to them: you were heard.
A Cry for Freedom Without Freedom to CryBy Keeyon HowardYoung people told me creative expression gave them a voice they never had. They cry out to be free, but crying out gets them judged as weak. This piece is my ode to them: you were heard.
Room II · The TheoryIt's their creative expression. Music. Building. Business. Design. Cooking. Whatever it is, it's where they're most honest, most focused, and most themselves.
We don't pull them out of that place to develop them. We develop them inside it. Through the LIONS system, creative expression becomes the training ground for Leadership, Identity, Ownership, Navigation, and Structure.
Discipline, focus, and confidence can be built through creative expression. Creative expression can't be built through any of them.
Our Missouri headquarters is a 3,000 square foot creative and development space. It's where young people come to create, get coached, and build the five LIONS pillars, all under one roof.
It's also a working production studio. We screen print C2C apparel and custom orders, and the same space produces original drawings, paintings, custom shoes, and custom sign repairs. Young people don't just hear about creative expression here. They see it at work.
Creative Conquerors developed every month, in person and online.
Dedicated C2C campuses where creative expression and youth development live under one roof.
A college freshman course that equips students with the LIONS pillars before life tests them.
The LIONS system taught inside juvenile justice centers, meeting youth where they are.
A creative development home for young men in transition.
Real conversations on how creative expression builds who we become, carried to every corner of the world.
Details from original works by Keeyon L. Howard
It's a young person walking through our doors. We're not here for a season. We're building for generations.
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