Resources for Healing Centered Practices

This zine is a summary of six months of intensive review of academic literature and interviews with research-practitioners and youth, and serves as a guide to understanding key concepts and ideas that can advance arts-based healing practices across the region.

Creative Wellbeing Curriculum Guide

A new curriculum guide to support practitioners in fostering communities of wellness, especially for systems-impacted youth, those who are vulnerable to becoming systems- impacted, and the adults who support them

Healing through the Arts Webinar Videos and Lesson Plans

The LA County Department of Arts and Culture partnered to support the to offer strategies for teachers and students to express themselves through the arts.

Creative Wellbeing: Arts, Schools, and Resilience Evaluation

An evaluation of the initial implementation of Creative Wellbeing was conducted by Harder+Company Community Research. The evaluation findings are published in final report that was completed in November 2020.

Centering Youth Voices in Mental Health

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July 12, 2022

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Creative Wellbeing

Healing Centered Engagement

(Artwork Credit) "Have You Ever" by Alexis Obinna.

In spring 2022, the LA County Youth Commission approached the Arts Ed Collective with an interest in incorporating artwork produced by youth into the Helping Centering Youth Voices in Mental Health report to the Board of Supervisors, to make the report more accessible to youth and other members of the general public. Thirteen systems-impacted young artists—either independently or with support from community-based arts organizations—created artwork that conveys some of the themes implicit in the report and that shares their own personal journeys with mental health. These pieces are powerful representations that offer a window, beyond the data, into the experiences of LA County youth.

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