Teens

Vistamar School
California
My name is Courtney Avrit and I am a senior at Vistamar School in El Segundo, California. During my final semester of high school for my senior project I was inclined to reach out to AWBW after hearing about it from a family friend. I am passionate about menta…
  • Schools & Universities
Marjaree Mason Center
California
Being a teen is hard enough to go through. This 15-year-old-girl and her family were here because of domestic violence. The oldest of the children in her family, she did not want to do Pass the Painting. She said, "My teacher said that I don't know how to p…
  • Domestic Violence
Wichita Children's Home
Kansas
I work in a group home for teens that have been involved in human trafficking or are at high risk due to sexualized behaviors. Many of the youth have been sexually abused and are in foster care. Although the youth started out not wanting to do this, they al…
  • Foster Care
  • Foster Care
  • Human Trafficking
  • Sexual Assault
Forty Carrots Family Center
Florida
Our two facilitators used Inner Self-Portraits during a group session with pregnant and postpartum teenage parents at a local high school we work with. These students have had difficulty with balancing their identities as students, teenagers, friends, and now …
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
SOTRACE, LLC
California
I come from a large Tongan family, with my parents among the first to arrive in America. As relatives joined us seeking a better future, many struggled with drugs, gangs, language barriers and abuse. I witnessed severe domestic and emotional abuse, and saw man…
  • Incarceration
WomenShelter Long Beach
California
Windows Facilitator Eydie recently shared with us, “Art is a wonderful medium for compassionate intervention because it gives our clients the opportunity for self-expression … They walk out of the room seemingly lighter, and with a certain stride that makes me…
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Community Violence (gang violence, police violence, mass shootings etc.)
  • Domestic Violence
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
Trauma and Healing in Color
California
This “Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories” video features La Shonda Coleman, LCSW, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs at Pepperdine University and Founder of Trauma and Healing in Colour, a program that fuses art, somatic based healing modalities, …
  • Facilitator Spotlights
Parent Support Network of RI
Rhode Island
My Permission Canvas represents permission to turn obstacles into avenues.  When we see a stop sign, we stop. When we see a red light, we stop. When we see a “Do not” symbol, we don’t do whatever the symbol indicates that we should not do. When we face barr…
  • Mental Health
Gary Job Corp
Texas
I would like to share the story of a client I will call "T." T is part of the art transforming trauma art group for youth in transition that is held at a Job Corp facility. This program is a job training school where young people stay to earn a certificate and…
  • Homelessness
Light Machine Arts
California
We were traveling on a bus to DC with the Youth From Standing Rock, and we created touchstones to hold onto during the actions that would help ground them before they had to speak. Then we created some after to remember something that they learned that gave th…
  • Social Justice
  • Advocacy (legislation, voter mobilization, etc.)
  • Social Justice (anti-oppression, restorative justice, systems change, etc.)
Stanislaus Family Justice Center
California
A 16-year-old girl was referred to our art session because of prior sexual abuse. We spent a lot of time focusing on anger and how that was expressed. She shared what she saw or how the individual causing harm looked. She used this image to discredit them a…
  • Sexual Assault
Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services
Washington
I am a strong believer that art can support healing, especially when trauma can make expression and communication hard to do. I work a lot with children that have anxiety, depression, anger and have gone through a lot of traumas. Going to school and not being …
  • Mental Health
Wichita Artworx, Inc.
Kansas
My Permission Canvas represents “Permission to Succeed.” I started having hearing trouble when I was a teen, and I was always made fun of because of it. I was “the deaf girl.” I went totally deaf about 8 years ago and it was devastating. Fortunately, I was …
  • Mental Health
Los Angeles Unified School District
California
This "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Sally Stevens, MSW, PPS, a Psychiatric Social Worker for Los Angeles Unified School District. A Windows Facilitator since 2014, Sally shares how art is a tool for healing and destigmatizing mental hea…
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Mental Health (DSM, suicidal ideation, etc.)
  • Schools & Universities
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
A Window Between Worlds
California
I have facilitated the My Traveling Story workshop many times, but one experience truly stands out. I worked for years with a woman who survived domestic violence. Violence from her partner that tragically took the lives of her unborn twin babies. At the time,…
  • Domestic Violence
A Greater Hope
California
We had two different corporate funders come for a socially distanced site visit at A Greater Hope's Headquarters in Victorville, CA. That office, once a thriving hub of activity with foster youth, families, therapists, and social workers buzzing about from pla…
  • Donor Engagement
  • Donor Engagement
  • Foster Care
Rialto Unified School District
California
Our 9-12th grade students joined us at lunch to participate in the Touchstone Journey. These students come from intersectional communities including homeless and foster populations, and have dealt with some type of marginalization along their journey. Stude…
  • Schools & Universities
  • Schools & Universities
  • Social Justice (anti-oppression, restorative justice, systems change, etc.)
The Nest
Kentucky
“Being a part of AWBW makes me feel supported and connected to this community of healers working to make this world a better place,” shares Patricia, an AWBW facilitator. After being trained by AWBW in early 2017, Patricia and her colleague Katie began offe…
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Domestic Violence
  • LGBTQIA+
Trauma and Healing in Color
California
This “Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories” video features La Shonda Coleman, LCSW, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs at Pepperdine University and Founder of Trauma and Healing in Colour, a program that fuses art, somatic based healing modalities, …
  • Facilitator Spotlights
A Greater Hope
California
The structure of the AWBW training (online and interactive), coupled with the detailed curriculum that provides easy to follow step by step instructions any paraprofessional can follow, combined with the universally engaging nature of the workshops makes AWBW …
  • Foster Care
Wichita Children's Home
Kansas
Wichita Children's Home
Kansas
I work in a group home for teens that have been involved in human trafficking or are at high risk due to sexualized behaviors. Many of the youth have been sexually abused and are in foster care. Although the youth started out not wanting to do thi…
Light Machine Arts
California
Light Machine Arts
California
We were traveling on a bus to DC with the Youth From Standing Rock, and we created touchstones to hold onto during the actions that would help ground them before they had to speak. Then we created some after to remember something that they learned th…
WomenShelter Long Beach
California
WomenShelter Long Beach
California
Windows Facilitator Eydie recently shared with us, “Art is a wonderful medium for compassionate intervention because it gives our clients the opportunity for self-expression … They walk out of the room seemingly lighter, and with a certain stride tha…

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