Teens

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
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
  • Community Engagement
  • Incarceration
  • Social Justice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
  • Community Engagement
  • Mental Health
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
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
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
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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