Teens

Proud Mama Bears
California
This "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Founder of Proud Mama Bears and AWBW Board Chair, Stacia Kato. In this moving video celebrating Pride Month, Stacia shares about using her training as a Windows Facilitator in her journey as the mothe…
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Advocacy
  • Community Engagement
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • 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
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
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
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
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+
Rialto Unified School District
California
This is the activity that I led with our high school students at lunch for the month of October. I created this self-care tag activity and had the students illustrate how they would practice self-care on the back. Self-care is never really practiced within …
  • Schools & Universities
  • Schools & Universities
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
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
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
Norina Murphy-Verduzco & Associates
California
I work in a private practice setting with a variety of ages all the way from five-year-olds to adults. Currently, I am working with a 16-year-old female who is struggling with anxiety and peer acceptance. Genuine acceptance of a child into the peer group cr…
  • Mental Health
  • Mental Health
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
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
  • Schools & Universities
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
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
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
  • Child Abuse / Neglect
  • Foster Care
  • Homelessness
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
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
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
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
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
Family Resource Center
Oklahoma
I did the Lotus Flower workshop with a 17-year-old girl who has had a very tough home life over the past four years. Her mother, a domestic violence survivor, referred her because she was concerned for her daughter and the things she has witnessed growing up. …
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Domestic Violence
  • 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
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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