ART & CREATIVITY FOR HEALING INC
TOP-RATED 2011
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Target demographics: Children, teens and adults; low-income and underprivileged populations; military families.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 2,500+
Geographic areas served: Orange County, Calif.; San Diego County, Calif.
Mission:
Art & Creativity for Healing was founded with a vision that the creative process and emotional healing often intersect when words are not adequate, and pain is too deep. Our programs are designed to work in conjunction with educational programs and therapeutic models (including traditional talk therapy) augmenting the benefits of these modalities with a unique creative approach. Specifically, our methods allow participants to learn a new way of communicating through creation and color that encourages emotional breakthroughs and further enhances the therapy process. Unlike other art programs that employ a loose format of free expression, our curriculum contains strictly guided exercises designed to elicit a creative response that encourages the release of stress issues, grief, anger and failure.
Results:
Since our inception, we have directly fostered transformational change in more than 25,000 children, women and families who have found our creative intervention a valuable tool to address the often-unbearable pain in their lives. With more than 35 non-profit program partners in Orange County we have created an effective methodology for reaching people in pain.
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SGLSC
10/21/12
A profoundly gifted Founder/Director and incredibly enthusiastic, dedicated volunteers make this small charity very mighty! In workshops where children and adults are able to reveal their feelings and deal with some of life's hardest issues - military deployment, grief, death of a loved one, ...
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Eva C.
05/26/12
I went to one class and just knew that I had to become a facilitator! Using make up sponges instead of brushes is just SO freeing! I am now almost done and am really enjoying the volunteering as I see first hand, the impact the sessions are having on individuals. People who didn't think they...
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missgive48
05/25/12
This program offers the best in healing opportunities through art - ideas that allow so many to heal from grief, anger, and sadness created in homes, family and our culture today. They teach others to carry these techniques to the world and spread its soothing techniques to those in pain and ...
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