Art with a Heart in Healthcare

Results: Art with a Heart in Healthcare has served over 20,000 children and their families since 2001.

Target demographics: Hospitalized Children at Wolfson Children's Hospital. Children undergoing oncology and hematology treatments at Nemours Children's Clinic and Families at the Ronald McDonald House In Jacksonville, FL.

Direct beneficiaries per year: Over 3,000 patients.

Geographic areas served: Jacksonville, FL and immediate surrounding areas.

Programs: Artists in residence program - art with a heart employs professional artists and engages students and other volunteers to regularly interact with patients at the wolfson children's hospital and nemours children's clinic in jacksonville, florida. This team of artists, with the help of the "art cart" - a self-contained workshop on wheels, makes regular visits to the hospital's pediatric intensive care, oncology, dialysis, emergency room, and behavioral health units. The artists create art sessions individualized to meet the needs of each child with the purpose of assisting in their healing process. The organization's office space has been donated for this program and is valued at 18,874 for 2014.

grants and projects 1. Art-to-go bags is a program sponsored by friends of catie cares to provide children, who participate in the art with a heart program, a special bag filled with various art supplies to take home from the hospital. 2. I am: expressions of arts in healing is an initiative sponsored by the woodcock foundation that adds creative writing and music to the arts curriculum for pediatric patients. 3. Provide contract artist services to behavioral health unit sponsored by the hall-halliburton foundation. 4. Provide artist in residence services for nemours sponsored by tom coughlin jay fund. 5. Provide contract artist and program services for critically ill children sponsored by the cummer family foundation. 6. Provide contract artist and related program management for critically ill children sponsored by the state of florida division of cultural affairs. 7. Provide part-time contract artist and prgram servcies for critically ill children sponsored by christ episcopal church of pvb charitable foundation beginning in 2015. 8. Other special projects and art supplies sponsored by charitable grants.