Teens

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
University of Southern California
California
During a recent workshop at a foster youth group home, I worked with four girls ages 13-17 who have experienced significant trauma. Many of them have family members impacted by substance use disorder, incarceration, and systemic challenges. These young women o…
  • Foster Care
  • Foster Care
Unite American Indian Involvement
California
This “Innovator Spotlight” video features Nicole “Nikki” Crow, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes, is a Care Coordinator at United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII) in the 7 Generations Prevention and Aftercare program. United American In…
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Community Engagement
  • Community Violence
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Grief & Loss
  • Mental Health
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • 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
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
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
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
Monterey County Rape Crisis Center
California
This “Vision Seeds” video features Carl Mucha of Monterey County Rape Crisis Center in CA. A Windows Facilitator since 2024, Carl shares what is at the core of his journey as he embarks upon facilitating workshops for individuals living in juvenile detention. …
  • Incarceration
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Incarceration
  • Mental Health
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
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
Nuview Bridge Early College High School
California
This "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Carlos Mares, licensed therapist and mental health counselor at Nuview Bridge Early College High School. Carlos shares how the Windows Facilitator Training gave him the tools to be able to empower the…
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Schools & Universities
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
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
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
  • Domestic Violence
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
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Schools & Universities
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
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
WomenShelter of Long Beach
California
This participant, a 16-year-old female who I have met for one-on-one sessions, always had difficulty discussing the violence she witnessed at home. After a few sessions, I wanted a project that would allow her to focus on herself. I have seen times where she d…
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Domestic Violence
  • 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
  • Domestic Violence
  • Grief & Loss
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
YWCA Glendale and Pasadena
California
As part of our prevention work at YWCA Glendale and Pasadena, we provide afterschool programs for girls in grades 5–9 across Los Angeles County. Our curriculum includes a variety of enrichment activities designed to empower youth, build confidence, and create …
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
Monterey County Rape Crisis Center
California
This “Uplifting Voices” video features Carl Mucha of Monterey County Rape Crisis Center in CA. A Windows Facilitator since 2024, Carl shares about the frame of mind he stepped into the training with, and contrasts it with the spirit, depth and vision he walked…
  • Incarceration
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Incarceration
  • Mental Health
Stepping Forward LA
California
This "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Pat Conlon, Director of Programs at Stepping Forward LA. Pat reflects on how the Windows Facilitator Training empowered his journey as a leader in supporting foster youth and their transitions to adul…
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Foster Care
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
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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