<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/stories/2019/december-2019/12052019-charles-lea.php" dsn="news"><featured/><top-stories/><homepage/><pubDate>12/05/2019 08:58:05 AM</pubDate><title>Using the Arts to Help Formerly Incarcerated Black Men Succeed</title><subtitle/><description>Formerly incarcerated black men enrolled in an alternative school with arts-based programming — writing, poetry, music — showed healthier social and emotional development and higher academic achievement as they transitioned to adulthood, according to research from the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work.</description><author>Chris Stipes</author><author-email>cdstipes@uh.edu</author-email><author-phone/><image/><categories>Health,People,Research,Top Stories</categories></item>