Our first program for high school students was The DreamYard A.C.T.I.O.N. Project. The ACTION Project began in the summer of 2004. A.C.T.I.O.N.’s Founding Director, Tanya Gallo, created the program and articulated its mission to develop young people as effective social leaders and active civic participants through challenging artistic projects. Through the A.C.T.I.O.N. Project, young people develop powerful strategies to respond to the issues that are most important to them in their communities. Past social issues explored in the past have included, Consumption, Police Brutality, Sex in the Middle, Juvenile Justice and HIV/AIDS. Participants of the ACTION Project begin in the summer of the freshman year of high school and continue until they graduate.