JAMSpeak is an online newspaper created by JAMS apprentice artists in Van Go’s high school JAMS (Jobs in the Arts Make Sense) program.

Jobs in the Arts Make Sense (JAMS) improves the lives of at-risk youth in Lawrence, Kansas, through arts-based employment. JAMS apprentice artists earn hourly wages to create unique art–along the way receiving job training, life skills, counseling and much more. Totally brilliant, you say? Yes, we agree. The program, operated by the nonprofit organization Van Go Mobile Arts, won the national Coming Up Taller award in 2005 and the Kansas Governor’s Arts Award in 2008!

Van Go Mobile Arts is a 501(c)3 non-profit working to better the lives of youth and create a more colorful community.