Deep Center

Deep Centers mission is to empower Savannahs youth to thrive as learners, community leaders, and agents of change. Through creative writing, cultural production, and art, Deep creates platforms for the citys youth and the village of support around them, including their families and adult allies, to share stories, engage in debates, and make Savannah a more just and equitable place. Deeps framework is trauma-informed and culturally responsive. We promote a roots-cause model of youth and community development that works on three parallel tracks: direct service, systems change, and narrative change. Deep lifts up youth and their village, advocates for just policies, and disrupts dehumanizing narratives with firsthand stories of community members healing, growing, and thriving throw individual growth and collective action. Our Pedagogy Deep uses writing, art, and culture to help youth and families connect their learning to their lives, their lives to their communities, and their actio...