Teens

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
  • Mental Health
  • Schools & Universities
Forty Carrots Family Center
Florida
This workshop was completed in a small group setting made up of teen parents who are continuing to attend high school. Most of these young women have experienced trauma throughout their childhoods and are now learning how to break the cycle in their own parent…
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Mental Health
  • Schools & Universities
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
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
  • Sexual Assault
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
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
  • Domestic Violence
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
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
  • Community Engagement
  • Domestic Violence
  • Mental Health
  • Physical & Terminal Illness
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
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+
Riverside County District Attorney's Office
California
Kintsugi, the art of repairing broken pottery with gold metals, is a powerful metaphor for life and personal growth. The fragments of broken pottery symbolize the challenges and trauma in our life journey. We acknowledge that our scars do not diminish our wort…
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
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
  • Advocacy
  • Mental Health
  • Schools & Universities
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
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
SalusCare
Florida
I would like to highlight a recent art workshop that I did on Inner Self with adolescents diagnosed with substance use and mental health disorders in a substance use inpatient facility in Fort Myers, FL. Whether it was physical and/or sexual abuse, having Depa…
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
  • Mental Health
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
Sure Helpline Center
California
This “Vision Seeds” video features Johana Ramirez, of Sure Helpline Center in El Centro, California. A Windows Facilitator since 2024, Johana reflects on her own journey of using art to anchor herself in the midst of trauma and chaos, and how today, she is hon…
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
DOVES of Big Bear Valley, Inc.
California
Emily, age 15, and her mother experienced physical, emotional, financial, and sexual abuse at the hands of their perpetrator. The effect on Emily has been profound. She shared, “Seeing my mother get thrown around, my brother getting his lip busted, and my sist…
  • Domestic Violence
  • Child Abuse / Neglect
  • Domestic Violence
  • Sexual Assault
Women's & Children's Crisis Shelter
California
When 15-year-old Vanessa arrived at our shelter with her mother she was feeling defeated and hopeless. This shy girl wouldn’t make eye contact or trust anyone. I introduced her to the AWBW art workshops to help her express her feelings through art in a safe an…
  • Child Abuse / Neglect
  • Child Abuse / Neglect
  • Domestic Violence
Nuview Bridge Early College High School
California
This “Innovator Spotlight” video features Carlos Mares, Wellness Therapist at Nuview Bridge Early College High School providing Social Emotional Learning opportunities to students enrolled in grades 9th-12th. As an AWBW Innovator, Carlos is ecstatic to prov…
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Community Engagement
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Homelessness
  • Mental Health
  • Schools & Universities
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
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
  • Social Justice
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
  • Domestic Violence
  • Foster Care
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
  • Domestic Violence
  • Grief & Loss
Forty Carrots Family Center
Florida
My client, a 14-year-old, was referred by a Teen Court program after an incident that occurred at school. She came in with very high levels of anxiety and depression. As an intervention to help depersonalize her anxiety and depression, we completed the worksho…
  • Mental Health
  • Mental Health
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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