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About Our Programs
Art & Creativity for Healing offers workshops at more than 35 non-profit program partners in Orange and San Diego counties, serving over 4,000 participants per year.
Our trained and certified facilitators share the unique Art4Healing® methodology and have helped tens of thousands of people use art as a tool for self-healing.
Our nonprofit outreach is centered around these Core Programs:
We invite you to read more about our Programs below. If you’re inspired and would like to help, 100% of your donations go to support our Non-Profit Partner Programs in the community!
Families in Crisis
Art4Healing® Creative Tools for Homeless Children & their Families
This Program offers Art4Healing workshops to homeless children and their families in crisis.
Participants create a series of abstract works of art that help surface their personal journey with homelessness. Through the process, they learn new and creative ways intuitively express their feelings and emotions. This Program is specifically designed to help with the stresses of life and coping without a permanent place to call home.
We also give 300 Healing Art Boxes to children in our “Creative Tools for Homeless Children & Their Families” program. Each box is valued at $25 and contains 10 new art supplies, including paint, paper, colored pencils, oil pastels, and other items. With these Healing Art Boxes, children will be able to continue to process their journey.
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Art4Healing® for any age
Vintage Colors - Art4Healing® Over 60
This program offers Art4Healing® workshops to low-income & underrepresented seniors (age 60+). These seniors live with the specific needs & challenges of aging, including loneliness, grief, stress, fear, economic hardship or illness.
Our Program partner agencies offer group activities & senior wellness programs to low-income, economically disadvantaged seniors in Orange County. We offer workshops to supplement their existing offerings.
Since its inception, this Program has continually received overwhelmingly positive feedback from participants. One weekly participant states, “This class really helps me cope with the changes of aging. From the decreasing independence to the loss of my dog, this helps me start the week on a positive note.”
Another expresses, “The topics pull out different emotions, show progress, & help me heal. I’m thankful for this program because it helps me express, heal, & move on to a new normal.”
Remember, you can express your feelings with color at any age!
Helping Teens Express their Feelings
Raging Colors: Expressive Painting for Teens
This Program offers Art4Healing® workshops to at-risk students in these partner agencies:
- OCDE ACCESS (Alternative, Community, & Correctional Education Schools & Services) Schools
- Family Resource Centers of Orange County
- Western Youth Services, & Girls Inc. Los Angeles
Our workshops introduce students to expressive art, where they create a series of abstract creations with paint. Our process gives teens a safe, creative place to reflect & share their experiences, frustrations, & struggles. Teens deal with many subjects, including exposure to drugs & alcohol, peer pressure, teen pregnancy, bullying, depression, & low self-esteem.
For many of these teens, their everyday lives are often stressful. They experience many difficulties, such as legal issues, foster emancipation, &/or homelessness.
Art4Healing® teaches teens that art can be a constructive part of their everyday lives. Teens can use art to communicate tough issues that have negatively affected them or derailed their emotional growth.
Providing Healing to women
Out of Darkness: Women Survivors
The Out of the Darkness: Women Survivors program offers Art4Healing® workshops for women survivors of:
- Domestic Violence
- Human Trafficking
- Assault
- Emotional, Mental or Physical Abuse
- Trauma
The workshops introduce participants to expressive art, guiding them through the process of creating a series of abstract paintings. The Art4Healing process brings their personal journey with trauma to the surface while giving their pain a voice in a safe & nurturing environment.
A Human Options Program Supervisor states: “This therapeutic art process helps the women at our shelter tap into emotions and feelings they have no words for. They share that the experience of healing through art made the process of their difficult situation easier to process and cope with.”
Helping Our Military Heroes Heal
Healing for Heroes and their Families
This Program offers Art4Healing® workshops to three different groups experiencing the effects of deployments and war-related injuries:
- Wounded Warriors at the Wounded Warrior Battalion – West on Camp Pendleton – These marines suffer from PTSD, TBI, and other combat-related injuries.
- Children of the deployed at the San Onofre Elementary School on Camp Pendleton – These children deal with stress related to having an active-duty military parent who often serves multiple deployments.
- Veterans – through Working Wardrobes Vet Net Power Up For Success program. This program provides active duty and veterans with tools & resources for professional development & transition to civilian life.
Art & Creativity for Healing also has an open-door policy for Veterans, as well as children & spouses of military personnel stationed at Camp Pendleton. We also provide free Art4Healing® workshops at our Laguna Hills studio.
We carefully created a distinctive curriculum designed to meet the needs of active military personnel and their families as well as Veterans. Our workshops deal with feelings associated with deployment, family separation, stress, resettlement, and/or injuries.
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Donate today and give the gift of artistic expression! With your donation, we provide healing to women, children, and families living with pain, grief, fear, illness or stress.
100% of your donations go to support our Non-Profit Partner Programs in the community. Our operational costs are covered entirely through Certification, Studio Workshops, and online sales.