Our Impact
3 Point 0, DBA “Studio T Arts & Entertainment” was founded to change the lives of at-risk youth and their families by using dance as a tool to reach difficult-to-serve populations, especially low-income minority communities. Through innovative and culturally relevant programming, we serve over 5,000 individuals each year, across three counties, five school districts, and 52 school sites. For nearly 15 years we have worked to keep Sacramento’s most vulnerable young people off the streets by giving them a positive, creative, and social alternative to drugs, teen pregnancy, gang violence, and suicide.
With the onset of the current pandemic, there is a heightened demand for our services through our existing training platform PassToClass.com. “Pass to Class” is a way for public educators to provide physical education videos that are culturally relevant to disengaged youth that struggle to connect. We have found that our methods are the connective tissue for them to engage. Until March 2020, it was a limited resource, but since the COVID-19 crisis we have added over 60 hours of video across 40 different lessons and are currently reaching more than 192,000 students across the nation. With educational and strategic partners, we are poised to build more interactive functionality that will help youth, educators, and parents. We are collaborating—and seeking more collaborative opportunities— with professional teaching artists to create new content, and professionally record content focused on wellness and improving entrepreneurial resiliency. We have also created youth entrepreneurship programs to help youth learn and monetize their creative talents. “Side Hustle Academy” honors the natural talents of our youth and pairs them with knowledge and skills to earn a paycheck. Another program is LVL UP, which helps young people create and disseminate public health information about the pandemic, safety practices, and available resources to help our families and communities navigate the pandemic in a language and medium they can access and understand.
We’ve reached
23,000 Educators
248,602 Students
326 School Sites
Impact by the Numbers
10,760
Students served annually through residencies at schools, community centers, workshops and events
82%
Students reported improved grades, however, many are still underperforming and in need of continued support
250,000 +
Online viewership for video tutorials for academic and home environments
98%
Students reported greater motivation and confidence.
2,392
Students served monthly during the school and afterschool enrichment programs
84%
Teachers / Leaders reported better behavior classroom behavior
Dance Saves Lives
Our mission is to help youth develop critical creative and life skills through exposure to the arts. To inspire them to maintain a positive academic focus through partnerships with schools in resource starved communities. We seek to train youth to use the arts as an entrepreneurial tool to generate income, creativity,and healing.
Our program is a great motivator for kids and helps teachers get the best from even the most challenged students. We also help families with culturally relevant training to balance their budget, get out of debt, and a community favorite, 'How to Not Go Broke at Christmas'.
We hold our programs in classrooms after school. Our kids are off the streets...not in gangs, not on drugs...physically healthy and inspired to excel. We build hope, confidence, and teach there is more to life than what they see on their 'blocks'. We are showing our kids, our families and our communities a different approach to life through the arts.
One of our boys, Leon "Kida” Burns, won the national competition 'So You Think You Can Dance'. We've won International, National, and Regional Hip Hop dance titles. We've been named 'Best of Sacramento'. Our kids are working with artists like JLO, Chris Brown, Jabbawokeez, Justin Bieber and many others.
Through attendance tracking, relationships with academic leaders at each site, polling students, teachers and parents, and existing academic research has allowed us to identify the following core areas of measurable impact of R.E.A.C.H. programs on students.
Lastly, some call what we do innovative, but I call what we do a result of something much simpler, listening with the intent to serve. That is at the core of everything we do, and it fuels our passion to create career paths, empower our families, build up communities.
Hear Stories From Our Team
Awards and Positions
Americans for The Arts - Arts Education Council
Californians for the Arts - Board position,
Racial & Cultural Equity Committee
CFTA/CAA Programs Committee
National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) - Outstanding Woman Award
Haney Biz - Business Highlight for Changing lives through entrepreneurship: Empowering Youth through the Arts & Entrepreneurship
City of Sacramento "State of the city" (Mayor's office) - featured
Voted BEST NEW Series on Access Sacramento
Our work during COVID was highlighted in the Mayor Darryl Steinberg State of the City address
Advocacy Work
Laguna Creek High School Black Student Union
AFTA - Arts Education Council Winter Conference
Mercy San Juan NICU Fundraiser performance
Advocacy work | Governor Gavin Newsom and CA State Assembly hearings EITC
Local advocacy for emergency relief funds for artists and nonprofits in under resourced communities securing over $101,533.64 to 26 individuals, first time grant recipients, 18 small businesses
