PROGRESS Arts Group Inc. Launches 2011-2012 PAM Project Youth Arts, Empowerment, & Wellness Tour - "Educate.Empower.Transform."

Houston, TX, June 16, 2011 --(PR.com)-- The PROGRESS Arts Group Inc. is a Houston based 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts and education organization whose overall mission is to Educate and Create Opportunities through the arts ~Worldwide. The organization is excited to announce the launch of their 2011-2012 national PAM Project Youth Arts, Empowerment, & Wellness Tour on August 5, 2011 in Columbia, SC. The PROGRESS Arts Group Inc. joined forces with special guest, accomplished actor and award-winning celebrity choreographer, Mr. Darrin Dewitt Henson, in 2009 to officially launch the The Performing Arts Mentorship (PAM) Project. Since then other celebrities and successful entrepreneurs from around the nation have come on board to partner with the organization in support of this dynamic project. The Performing Arts Mentorship (PAM) Project is a life-changing project that promotes the arts, education, and social and economic change. The project’s model is creative and unique in combining key components such as training and education with rare celebrity and successful entrepreneur mentorship opportunities to address, create awareness, and reduce youth poverty and other related problems such as: financial illiteracy, youth obesity and other health issues, low self-esteem and other social issues, high school dropout rates, and juvenile crime and violence rates.

The PAM Project national Youth Arts, Empowerment, & Wellness Tour gives youth around the nation a rare and unique, age appropriate training, empowerment, and mentorship opportunity that combines financial literacy, health and wellness, life skills, career prep and coaching, empowerment, and the arts. It exposes youth to experiences that are beyond their current reach and imagination and opens up a world of infinite possibilities, hope, and dreams that will motivate them to succeed. The project will be chronicled in an upcoming documentary-style reality TV pilot entitled "Aspire." Local and national PAM Project mentor, sponsor, and vendor opportunities are currently available. Visit the PROGRESS Arts Group Inc.'s website and download the general info/sponsor packet to find out more about partnership opportunities.

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