National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day
May 6, 2010
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| Alabama Department of Mental Health | The ECCHCO Project |
The Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation proposes to develop an East Central Children’s Health Collaborative (ECCHCO) Project. The goal of ECCHCO is to develop a collaborative, community-based system of care responsive to the mental health needs of children and youth with a serious mental health needs and their families in a three-county rural area of Alabama. The ECCHCO Project will address the comprehensive needs of children and adolescents with SED and their families by creating a family-focused and youth-centered system of care that transcends traditional mental health boundaries by integrating social service, education, and juvenile justice resources with mental health services for these children in a community-based outreach setting.
The three-county rural area identified through this application represents some of the poorest counties in Alabama and oftentimes the United States. ECCHCO will address the tremendous barriers facing poor people in receiving and maintaining appropriate and comprehensive care by creating a system of care that is outreach-based and incorporates culturally competent practices into service delivery. The three-county target area includes: Pike County (City of Troy, City of Brundidge), Macon County, and Bullock County. Partners include child-welfare, juvenile justice, education, primary health care, child advocacy, and Troy University. |
Montgomery |
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| Sewa Uusim Program - Pascua Yaqui Tribe | Sewa Uusim |
Sewa Uusim Program provides wraparound services for youth ages birth to 21. Our goals are to provide quality service to youth and their families by intergrating culture, community, family and friends to achieve balance in the heart and mind. We will ask for submissions of artwork from the youth to place on display in high profile spots around the community. |
Tucson |
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| Suzanne's Studio - Private Instruction | Art Advocate - Mental Health Awareness Day |
Bringing Art into the Classrooms - Preschool, K, and 2nd Grade Classrooms - I will follow the guidelines prescribed in the activty sheets. |
El Camino Village |
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| Kings Community Action Organization, Head Start Program | Art is Smart!- Creating Awareness of Children's Mental Health |
Each of our 12 Head Start Centers will be preparing an art activity and encouraging the parents and family members to come into the classroom and participate in the activity with their child! We are also participating in the Post NOW campaign to increase awareness and encourage parents to start conversing and asking questions about their child's mental health. We are excited as this is our first year of participation, and looking forward to what the results may be! |
Hanford |
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| ChLA Mental Health-Proj ABC | proj ABC |
plan to ask the parents to ask the children to draw their feelings and then describe it - and write down their ages and accounts on the back of the art. We might make a bound book for next year's mental health day.
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Los Angeles |
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| Department of Mental Health/Private Practice | Healing Through Art |
Working with art therapy to help children grieve parental loss |
Los Angeles |
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| Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic | Family FunFest |
Our annual funfest attracts about 1000 participants in South Los Angeles: We will include an opportunity for children to participate in Children's Mental Health Awareness Day by adding artwork they create at the FunFest to a mural we will present at Los Angeles City Hall. We will report via Facebook, Twitter, website and Constant Contact newsletter. |
Los Angeles |
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| USC UCEDD CHLA | Project ABC |
Project ABC is a SAMHSA funded early childhood integrated system of care grant serving children 0-5 and their families in Service Planning Area (SPA)4 in Los Angeles County. Our project partners are Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Mental Health, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Children's Institute Inc (CII), LAC Department of Children and Family Services and USC. we will publicize our program through our website www.projectabc-la.org and through our partners and network. |
Los Angeles |
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| City of Merced Parks & Community Services | Connecting |
I just received the e-mail in regards to this program. I am really interested in providing our community with an awareness day event. I would like to receive the material needed in order to bring this to the City of Merced in the year 2010.
At this time our department will begin the program within our local community events and holiday community events. I plan on presenting this to the community of Merced at our annual 5 de mayo event on Wednesday, May 5th 2010.
Thursday, May 6th we will present it to our youth centers that provide service to youth K-8th grade. I will attempt to partner with First 5 of Merced County, Building Healthy Communities Organization, and the Mental Health Department in Merced County.
I plan to provide older youth (high school, college or university volunteers)share poems, songs, personal stories or drawings that reflect their emotions and feelings in different stages in their life as well as sharing how they connect with their inner most feelings and thoughts to place them on paper.
The youth centers will be provided with youth activities (i.e. Bounce houses, face painting, board games, etc.), activities that twill help promote self-esteem, build character and help students recognize their assets through assets building activities (40 developmental assets and Character Counts) and develop recreational skills, through the use of a program developed at California State University San Diego SPARK (Sports Play Active Recreation for Kids).
If partnership is created this year then the agencies will be provided with an opportunity to create mini workshops for parents to understand and improve their communication with their children and help their children cope with emotional, personal, social and family distress. As well as workshops for the youth to learn how to communicate with their parents or other adults that can help them make appropriate decisions based on current, past and future situations.
If this project opportunity isn’t possible this year, I would love to be provided with material, information, and support for next year’s awareness day.
Please contact me in regards to the support that can be provided to help make Awareness Day 2010 happen in the City of Merced.
Vielka Martinez
Recreation Coordinator
Youth Division
Parks & Community Services
City of Merced
209-385-6895
209-564-0350
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Merced |
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| Merced County office of Education | Our Feelings |
Our students in the special day class programs that I cover in Atwater, Delhi, Livingston, and Winton will be using Art work to talk and learn about their feelings. This will incorporate positive self esteem and develop social skills and empathy for others. Teacher's will evalute their activity effectiveness at the end of the day. |
Merced |
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| Center for Community and Family Services Head Start Program | All Kinds of Feelings |
Children will be encouraged to discuss feelings during group time. Children will be asked to describe how they feel when peers are socially appropriate ("nice") with them during various daily activities (Play time, work time, etc.). Children will also describe how they feel when children are not appropriate with them (not nice) during the same activities. Teachers will assist children to create a "Feeling Collage"- where their visual depictions of their feelings cam be displayed. Children will also create a feelings dance- where they can express their feelings with their bodies and facial expressions. Teachers will display their respective Feelings Collages in their classrooms. |
Pasadena |
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| Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego | "ART I AM" |
Rady Children's will partner with Riley School, an atypical school for children (K-8th) with difficulties regulating their emotions and behaviors. The plan ideas are for the children to: 1). make collagues representing the strengths of their community and how the community helps them feel like they belong 2). paint life-size drawings of themselves with color/design to symbolize how they have changed since enrollment at Riley & how this impacts their community OR 3). paint the relaxation rooms with kid-inspired themes that include cultural and community representations of childhod development. Projects will be posted/visible in auditorium for public-viewing. Possible event to be held to honor community. |
San Diego |
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| Roosevelt Elementary School | Lunchtime Art Activity |
I provide art materials for children to use at lunch time one day/week with the goal of giving them the means of safely expressing themselves in a school setting that is losing art funding as well as its funding for counseling at the school site. |
Santa Monica |
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| Sonoma County Indian Health Project | Aunties and Uncles |
due to lack of Native American Posters depicting good mental health and wellness we started a campaign to have poster contest.
our project is supported by grant through Sonoma County Mental Health thru California Proposition 63, prevention and planning. |
Santa Rosa |
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| North Valley Youth & Family Center | At our clinic, we plan for a special project each Spring for "May is Mental Health Month." I saw an advertisement for this program and would like more inforamtion, as we may be able to participate. |
Tarzana |
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| Pinoleville Pomo Nation | Pinoleville Native American Head Start Program |
We have a mental health component to the Pinoleville Tribe's head start program. Program goals are to increase mental health awareness among the Pinoleville Head Start families and overall tribal community along with partnering with other head start affiliated organizations. Internal program planning will arrange head start classroom activities and a family and community activity. Our attendance at other community meetings will be our avenue for reporting the success of mental health awareness event. |
Ukiah |
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| Karuk Tribe | Circles of Care/Tribal Youth Program |
Our goal is to raise awareness in the community for childrens mental health needs. Our programs provide a variety of interventions for the youth and their families in our community. The Tribal Youth Program along with other tribal programs offer Cultural Classes, psycho-educational school-based group interventions, support to incarcerated youth. Both the Circles of Care and Tribal Youth Program provide community and educational outreach, leadership opportunities, and much more.
The Karuk Circles of Care project will partner with the Tribal Youth Program to raise Childrens Mental Health awareness by conducting an Art Action Activity at the Community Health Fair on May 6th.
We will share our experiences of the day's project at our Circles of Care Summer Grantee Meeting in Denver. |
Yreka |
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| Lower Naugatuck Valley Parent Child Resource Center | PCRC Awareness Day Activities |
PCRC will do the following to promote National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day: host a "Positive Parenting Program" workshop; unveil artwork from children particpating in our Intensive Outpatient Program; issue letters to the editors of local newspapers and have our CEO speak about children's mental health awareness at a Rotary luncheon. |
Derby |
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| Southeast Mental Health System of Care | Feelings of our Lives Book |
Local youth ages 3-18 and adults will participate in a project of creating a page for a book using various sources of media; including art, poetry, and essay writing. The leadership group will partner with a before and after school program that provides care for low income families. The goal of the project is to educate community members who are either "in the know" or are "not in the know" about Mental Health Awareness. The book will include mental health awareness facts across the life span, information on how to get support in our area, and will be read to local schools, libraries, and before and after school programs. Each program participating in the reading will receive a free black and white copy of the book to keep for future readers. |
New London |
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| Town of Stratford CT/ Youth Service Bureau | My Feelings Are A Work of Art |
Children's art work from individual and family therapy displayed on bulletin boards at various locations around town (with permission of family and child of course). Goal to increase awareness of how children express their feelings and needs through art and play. Press release about bulletin boards to raise awareness of event in community. |
Stratford |
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| CHD/ CT Outreach- West | Tenant Focus Group |
Specific topics/trainings for adult clients with children with mental health needs |
Waterbury |
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| Wellpath Behavioral Health for Children and Families- non profit | Wellpath Banner |
Wellpath is a private, non-profit regional center that offers comprehensive and integrated mental health services to children, adolescents, parents and families. The Wellpath brand will help us to effectively build recognition for our continuum of treatment and support programs – from 24-hour emergency mobile crisis intervention to specialized child abuse treatment, victim recovery and support services, group homes for traumatized children, outpatient psychotherapy and psychiatric treatment, home-based psychotherapy, family support and early intervention. Wellpath is affiliated with and/or funded by Advanced Behavioral Health, Children’s Trust Fund, National Children’s Alliance, Office of Juvenile Justice Court-Supported Services Division, Office of Victims’ Services, St. Mary’s Hospital, the Exchange Club Family Life Foundation, the State of Connecticut Department of Children and Families, United Way of Greater Waterbury, United Way of Naugatuck and Beacon Falls, and Yale University’s Child Study Center.
Our project for Awareness Day is to create a banner that will be used for the NAMI walk in mid-May. On May 6 we will have the banner and fabric markers in our reception area for children and parents to decorate with feelings faces. We will also have information about the Awareness day. |
Waterbury |
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| Wellpath Behavioral Health for Children and Families- non profit | Wellpath Banner |
Wellpath is a private, non-profit regional center that offers comprehensive and integrated mental health services to children, adolescents, parents and families. The Wellpath brand will help us to effectively build recognition for our continuum of treatment and support programs – from 24-hour emergency mobile crisis intervention to specialized child abuse treatment, victim recovery and support services, group homes for traumatized children, outpatient psychotherapy and psychiatric treatment, home-based psychotherapy, family support and early intervention. Wellpath is affiliated with and/or funded by Advanced Behavioral Health, Children’s Trust Fund, National Children’s Alliance, Office of Juvenile Justice Court-Supported Services Division, Office of Victims’ Services, St. Mary’s Hospital, the Exchange Club Family Life Foundation, the State of Connecticut Department of Children and Families, United Way of Greater Waterbury, United Way of Naugatuck and Beacon Falls, and Yale University’s Child Study Center.
Our project for Awareness Day is to create a banner that will be used for the NAMI walk in mid-May. On May 6 we will have the banner and fabric markers in our reception area for children and parents to decorate with feelings faces. We will also have information about the Awareness day. We also intend for the banner to be photographed and discussed with local media. |
Waterbury |
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| Children's National | My Feelings are a work of art |
A number of creative arta therapists within the medical facility are hosting a table in our main atrium space. The table will have information available for patients, visitors, parents, staff to raise awareness of children's mental health needs, stickers, coloring sheets, etc. |
Washington |
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| ALPI Queen Townsend Head Start | Fort Pierce |
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| RCMA | Cinco de Mayo and Mental Health day |
We had a party with our parents children and staff in our center. We had a great dinner of course it was Mexican. Delicious Mexican drinks, and we even got dress with the typical Mexican dresses. Children sang and dance for their parents,and them we all had a great time socializing with parents, staff and children. Our goal was to be together and to demonstrate our children, the importance of socializing, partipating in conversations and the union of a big happy family in the large group of our center. |
Fellsmere |
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| ALPI Queen Townsend Head Start | My Feelings Shaped in Art Work |
We anticpate children will create a variety of art work expressing their feelings, which will range from Happy to Sad or simply how they are feeling. Assistantance will be given by teachers and caregivers. |
Fort Pierce |
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| Escambia County Head Start | Head Start Cares |
Our goal is to bring awareness of the Mental Health needs of young children in our program to parents, staff and the community. |
Pensacola |
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| Sarasota Partnership for Children's Mental Health | The Partnership for Children’s Mental Health Social Marketing Workgroup, which includes representatives from DCF, the Family Support Network, Sarasota County School District, family members, WEDU (public television), community volunteers and the Partnership, is planning and implementing activities for this year’s Children Mental Health Awareness Day. The focus of our campaign is on bringing awareness of mental health needs to parents and the community and includes; a speaker event for parents, a children’s art project, the launching of the early childhood website, and a social/emotional media campaign.
Speaker event for families
The Partnership will hold a community speaker event for parents on the importance of social/emotional development of young children in conjunction with Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day. The event targets all families in Sarasota with translation available for Spanish speaking parents. The Partnership, through the efforts of the social marketing committee, will join with Forty Carrots Family Center to plan and organize the event. The event will be video taped with links on the early childhood website, WEDU’s website and other local organizations’ sites. CD’s in English and Spanish will be disseminated to various organizations and pediatricians for distribution to families allowing us to reach an even larger audience.
Children’s Art Project
Helping parents recognize that even young children experience strong emotions is an essential part of this campaign. Children in preschools and Kindergarten through third grade will be invited to submit a class art project based upon the theme my feelings are a work of art. Judging will occur for each age group (i.e. preschool, Kindergarten, etc.) with prizes awarded for each category. All participating classes will be given a pencil, a green ribbon (representing Children’s Mental Health Awareness) and information on social/emotional development and the early childhood website. Information about the art project, the children’s artwork and awards will be posted on the early childhood website and at the speaker event. The winning artwork will be framed and displayed.
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sarasota |
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| Beacon College | Jenni Rodriguez |
Bring Awareness to the Community and to the students that may want to go into this type of field. To work with children. |
Summerfield |
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| Winter Haven Hospital Center for Behavioral Health | My Feelings are a Work of Art |
Planning to partner with local Head Start and Early Childhood programs to highlight positive social and emotional health for all children. Plan to collaborate with Teachers, CDAT's, Family Service Advocates to complete feelings art activities and display art work at Parent Meetings in May. |
Winter Haven |
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| Gateway Community Services, Inc. | Project ETC |
Gateway is a rehabilitation facility for children and adults. Our goal is to help the Gateway clients express their emotional development through their art work. Make the clients aware of the meaning of Mental Health Awareness Day and how important good mental health is. We will be serving adolescent boys and girls age 14 to 18. The art work will be put on display for the larger Gateway Community. |
Jacksonville |
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| Tallatoona Head Start Program | MY FEELINGS ARE A WORK OF ART |
The classes will participate in creating artwork to express their feelings and emotions. The artwork will be displayed in the hallway at the school. WIN Georgia Family Support Partner will come in and read books 1 time per week throughout the month of May. |
Rome |
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| Trace Kids | Trace Kids Honors Children's Mental Health Awarness Day |
Our program is called Trace Kids, creative minds at work. We are a group of college students who attend Clark Atlanta University, and we go to a local middle school and work with the kids through art therapy.
For National Children's Mental Health Awarness Day, we will discuss with students at our university different types of mental health initiatives. |
Atlanta |
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| Georgia Art Therapy Association | Children's Mental Health Awareness Day |
Three or more art therapists will be facilitating art activities in public and private elementary schools in Atlanta. Children's art activities will have the theme of "My Feelings Are a Work of Art." Children will be encouraged to draw or paint their feelings, talk about their feelings, and share their finished art work. Pictures will document the groups. An art therapist's student film about working with child survivors of Hurricane Katrina will be shown to the general public, and guidelines for responding to children's art will be shared by art therapists after the film. Press releases will be sent to local media. Pictures of events and art work will be posted on the Georgia Art Therapy website www.georgiaarttherapy.org. |
Decatur |
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| Gilmer County Head Start | My Feelings are a work of Art |
Classes will participate by completing art work that will be on display at our school. The WIN GA Family Support Partner for Gilmer County will be participating to make reports on our progress to the community. |
Ellijay |
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| Urbandale Community School District | My Feelings Are a Work of Art |
Art Installation: All students at Elementary Schools(K-5) will have lead-in activity to discuss color/emotion. On project day, using 6’x8’ canvas, students will launch paint filled water balloons at canvas, creating an Abstract color rich image. Later, students create emotion based statements around edge of canvas. They will use colored sharpie, connecting to a personal feeling, to outline a painted area on canvas. School social workers, principals, art teachers, parents who volunteer will participate. Success reported to the local newspaper and school news magazine. |
Urbandale |
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| American Indian Center | L.E.E.P. |
Will hold a Native American pow wow that will include cultural aspects such as food,drums, singers, and dancing. Will host art workshop stations which will include all art media such as expressive "tagging" on canvas, early childhood art, clay, and more. Not limited to studio art but also movement, improv, and music. Will serve the Native American community: individuals, children, family and seniors. Currently partnered with American Indian Health Services of Chicago, and progressing with other community non-profit organizations such as Marwen (art studio) and Anawim (spritual space). We will report out at a community presentation later this year. |
Chicago |
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| Illinois Department of Human Services | My feelings are a work of art-Resource Fair |
Our goal is to introduce mental health services to families on the westside of Chicago. We will be having local mental health providers (including art and family therapists and programs that serve families with young children). We will have an outdoor event available to half-day Head Starts, child care centers, schools and community members. During the event we will focus on resources and various quilts of art work by children in these centers displaying their feelings. |
Chicago |
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| McHenry County Mental Health Board | McHenry County Family CARE |
Partnering with Headstart and schools throughout McHenry County to participate in the My Feelings are a Work of Art initiative. |
Crystal Lake |
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| Stephenson County Health Department | 4 Child care centers will be doing readings featuring 7 books, and doing art activities afterwards. Parents will be given materials regarding using Art to help children express feelings. |
Freeport |
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| All Our Kids Early Childhood Network | Will County Children's Work of Art |
The All Our Kids Early Childhood Network in Will County has over 30 partners that work with early childhood families. Some of the programs vary from preschools to counseling agencies to homeless shelters. It will be offered to all agnecies that particpate in the network. Our goal is to get at least 3 agencies involved on this day to do an art project that will consist of children drawing their feelings with a frame around their picture. The artwork will be displayed and will be compiled into a calendar. |
Joliet |
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| McHenry County Family CARE | Lake in the Hills |
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| Valley View Early Childhood | Romeoville |
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| One Community One Family | When We Grow Up |
We are working with the local Head Start program to partake in a poster session with them; allow them to create a posted of their feelings! |
Batesville |
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| American Legion Auxiliary, National Headquarters | Kids in Danger of Depression and Suicide (KIDDS) |
I'm coordinating the efforts of four of our state-level chapters. We will be conducting Art Action projects through each chapter that primarily focus on military children of guard, reserve, and active duty servicemembers. The goal is to get military families talking about their feelings and the issues they face. We are in the process of contacting community-level collaborators, but we have collaborated on a national level with the organization Give an Hour. We will report through press releases, our national magazine, newsletters, and Facebook/Twitter updates. |
Indianapolis |
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| USD 363 Holcomb Public Schools | My Feelings Are a Work of Art |
The school counselor and art teacher will cooperate and plan poster/art activity for elem. students for display in school bldgs. and central office. I will report back to the Finney County Public Awareness Committee. |
Holcomb |
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| Comcare of Sedgwick County | Children's Mental Health day art and schools project |
Our goal is to educate the administration, staff and students of USD 259 of the mental health awareness and services offered by Comcare and other Community Mental Health Centers in the state of Kansas. We will be servicing various age groups from K-12. We plan on implementing "My feelings are a work of art" project in numerous school arcoss the city of Wichita, KS. |
Wichita |
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| KY SEED | Richmond |
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| Mercy Family Center - Project Fleur-de-lis | Project Fleur-de-lis |
Project Fleur-de-lis is a school based organization funded through SAMSA and the NCTSN and was created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Today, Project Fleur de-lis provides CBITS groups in schools, crisis interventions, referrals and CBITS trainings for other mental health providers in the community and around the country.
Our goal for Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day is to provide the community with relevant materials that bring to light the importance of children’s mental health. We will be presenting these materials at the New Orleans Audubon Zoo on May 6th. In this environment children and caregivers have the opportunity to participate in art activities such as affect expression drawings and ask questions regarding mental health and children.
With this interaction Project Fleur-de-lis will spread our success during weekly meetings with community providers and during CBITS trainings to highlight the importance of children’s mental health.
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Metairie |
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| LA-Y.E.S -Louisiana Youth Enhanced Services | Art Action |
The goal of the Art Action event it to raise awarness of mental health issues in the Louisiana Parishes that LA-Y.E.S. serves. There will be art activities in 6 elementary schools in the Plaquemine, Orleans and Jefferson Parish in New Orleans.The targetted audience will be in the range of 500 children. These art activities will be done on site at the various schools with the participation of art teachers and LA-Y.E.S staff. The report of the events success will be detailed in the LA-Y.E.S newsletter and local media outlets in New Orleans. |
new orleans |
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| LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS/OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH | LOUISIANA YOUTH ENHANCED SERVICES (LA-YES) |
The purpose of LA – Y.E.S. is to involve youth, families and community stakeholders in collaborative planning, governance, program development, and advocacy to advance system of care principles in mental/behavioral health care services for children and their families. LA-Y.E.S. will provide education, training, mentoring, support services, coalition building, leadership development, etc. for youth, families and child-serving agency personnel. LA-Y.E.S. will work to enhance coordination and develop resources for evidence-based youth and family mental/behavioral health services. LA-YES targets youth ages 3-21 residing in the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines.
Children’s Mental Health Week Schedule 2010
•Tuesday, May 4th
o6:00 pm. “Meet and Mingle” for mental health practitioners and parents at the Mahalia Jackson Center. Parents will be able to have pressing questions related to their child’s mental health addressed.
•Wednesday, May 5th
o10:00 am- 12:00 pm. Preschoolers will be treated to a 30 minute reading session from a story book that has a socio-emotional well being basis. The participating pre-school students will receive a coloring book and gift prizes.
Confirmed Schools: Diana Head Start Center (10:00 am-11:00 am), Causeway Head start (10:00 am-11:00 am) (2 sessions), and Sarah T. Reed Elementary School (10:00 am-10:30 am).
•Thursday, May 6, 2010
o12:00 pm –When I Grow Up
Teenagers will hold up signs of what they want to be when they grow up and flip the poster/signs around to display SAMHSA facts about mental health and the receivable comprehensive mental health services. Media participation is anticipated in lieu of a webinar to communicate with project participants in other cities.
o2:00 pm- My Feelings Are a Work of Art
2nd grade students will participate in art activities like painting or drawing to express how they feel to their teachers and caregivers. This will foster discussion about young children’s socio-emotional health. This is a nationwide event.
•Saturday, May 8th
oCommunity Breakfast/ Panel Discussion with local pastors and clergy
All community members are invited.
We will report our efforts and successes to the community through our website, through statewide CMH reporting, electronic mail, and community meeting updates.
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NEW ORLEANS |
LA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Kennedy Day School, Franciscan Hospital for Children | Brighton |
MA |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Holyoke*Chicopee*Springfield Head Start | "My Feelings ar a Work of Art" |
The Mental Health team will work collaboratively with staff, parents and children at one of our sites to design and encourage a celebration of feelings artwork project. This project will be specifically designed to promote identification and expression of feelings in our preschoolers. Parents will be invited to celebrate this event with their children and literature and activities will be available to them as resources. |
Holyoke |
MA |
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Description |
City |
State |
| Priest Street School | Leominster |
MA |
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| City of Somerville, Health Department/ Somerville Cares About Prevention/ Somerville Committee on Suicide Prevention and Mental Health | Making Connections |
Art on Emotion Workshops are being offered to various youth groups through out the community. Each piece of art will be accompanied by a narrative on the feeling being expressed. All participants engage in a discussion on healthy coping skills and the connection between physical and mental health. All art will be included in an exhibit at the Somerville Museum in Sept. 2010. During the exhibit there will be discussions and workshops offered free to the community with a focus of reducing stigma and strategies to promote positive mental health. |
Somerville |
MA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Swampscott Public Schools | Swampscott "art-felt" day |
Swampscott |
MA |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Family Continuity Program | My feelings are a work of art |
Assist children 1st to 3rd grade to recognize and express emotions. Drumming, movement, collage entitled "what I want you to know about my feelings". We hope to display the collage in our building, share photographs with family members, and write an article in our newsletter, which goes out to employees, clients and community members. Children will have time to invite their parents to see their work at the end of the program. |
Whitinsville |
MA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Family Continuity/ Community Parnters of Health | The goals are to help children realize the many different ways of expressing emotions through art and to help start a dialogue with their parents about their emotions.
Activities will include expressing emotions through music, movement, coloring in body outlines, and a large collage with a theme of emotions that the children will create together.
We will be serving children from preschool to 3rd grade in the Blackstone Valley area.
We will report our success by taking pictures of the event.
Our partner is the Community Partners of Health |
Whitinsville |
MA |
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Description |
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| Dayspring Programs, Inc. | The Children of Dayspring |
Dayspring Programs, Inc. is a 501(c) 3 organization committed to improving the quality of life for children and families affected by substance abuse, homelessness, and poverty. We are located in Baltimore, Maryland and currently operate two housing programs--Transitional, which provides housing and supportive programs to 18 mothers and children for a period of 12-18 months. The second housing program, Shelter Plus Care, provides long-term housing and supportive programs to 63 families affected by substance abuse and homelessness.
Our goals for participation in National Children's Mental Health Day is to increase the awareness among our families about the importance of child mental health. We are encouraging our parents to commit to developing and nurturing the mental health of children and will be having various activities such as "A Letter to My Children" and "My Committment to My Child" so that parents express their feelings to their children. We are hosting an event on Thursday, May 6, 2010 from 6-8 p.m. at the Hattie Harrison Community Center. We are pleased to have as our speaker, Ms. MeShelle Foreman-Shields, who is an actress, comedian, and motivational speaker. Our children, who range in age from less than one year to adolescence will have their artwork displayed at this event. Infants have made "trees" in which their mental health was the root and their hands are the branches and leaves. Our preschool and primary age children are engaging in a project entitled, "My Feelings are a Work of Art" where they artistically describe what makes them happy and sad. Our middle and high school age children are working on an art project entitled "When I Grow Up" and will also be sharing their aspirations at this event. We plan on reporting our success to our local politicians and in furture funding opportunities. We are very exicited about participating in this event and look forward to honoring and celebrating the mental health of children who have been affected by substance abuse.
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Baltimore |
MD |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Rita Project Inc. & MATA | My Feelings are a Work of Art |
Rita Project & Maryland Art Therapy Assoc will collaborate with The American Visionary Art Museum by hosting an art-making workshop for children ages 6-8. Groups from area schools & community centers will make art in response to their feelings. Professional art therapists will assist by using art materials to express their feelings. |
Baltimore |
MD |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Tracy's Kids Art Therapy | Facing Cancer through Art Therapy |
Participants in all four Tracy's Kids Art Therapy Programs (www.tracyskids.org) will be invited to create masks on May 6. The masks will represent some strength or personal quality each kid brings to the work of getting well. We will create an online gallery through our website featuring the masks. |
Takoma Park |
MD |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Lake Orion Head Start/Lake Orion Early Childhood Center | Bee Safe-Bee Kind-Bee Responsible |
The art projects will be a component of our already established Positive Behavior Support Program where staff have recognized the above lesson plans. The event will be reported to the school board. |
Lake Orion |
MI |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| American Legion Auxiliary | The American Legion Auxiliary KIDDS Initiative |
We will use the theme "My Feelings Are a Work of Art," to create feeling picture books which we will then encourage the children to perform/present to the group in a guided exercise. This will help promote positive youth development, resilience, and recovery among military youth and raise awareness of mental health wellness of military children within our community. |
Lansing |
MI |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| American Legion Auxiliary Department of Michigan | Kids in Danger of Depression and Suicide (KIDDS) |
We will be coordinating with local organizations to conduct Art Action projects that focus on military kids and the special challenges they face when a parent is deployed. We have identified some local community collaborators, and we will be working with Give an Hour to bring in military child mental health experts to participate in the Art Action event. |
Lansing |
MI |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Gateway Community Services | The American Legion Auxiliary KIDDS Initiative |
We will use the theme "My Feelings Are a Work of Art," to create feeling picture books which we will then encourage the children to perform/present to the group in a guided exercise. This will help promote positive youth development, resilience, and recovery among military youth and raise awareness of mental health wellness of military children within our community. |
Lansing |
MI |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Munson Hospice and Palliative Care | Art Therapy services for youth who are grieving |
Art Therapy is provided to youth in their homes, at school and in groups to help youth deal with the life-threatening illness or death of a loved one. We will provided extended community information about youth and grief as a preventative measure. |
Traverse City |
Michigan |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Freeborn County Children's Mental Health Collaborative | My Feelings are a Work of Art |
Collaborating with the local child care center to put into place "My feelings are a work of art". Our Mayor has agreed to sign the proclomation during a City Council Meeting making May 6th Children's Mental Health Day in our community. Success will be reported to the community by inviting media to attend the May 6th event at the Child Care Center. |
Albert Lea |
MN |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Western Community Action- Head Start | "My Feelings Are a Work of Art" |
Head Start staff are working with young children on social and emotional development to experience, regulate and express emotions; form close, secure, interpersonal relationships;and explore the environment and learn. Those three areas have been on posters for the classrooms and home visitors for two years now to teach and help parents understand. This is what children need to be ready for Kindergarten and beyond. |
Marshall |
Mn |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Murray County Central Schools | I have just found out about this through my NASP membership, and do not have any of the details worked out at this time. |
Slayton |
MN |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Waseca Public Schools Family Education Center | Rainbow Connection Preschool |
Fine art activities and awareness will be conducted at our early childhood center. Community experts, parents and concerned community members will visit the center to view student art work and learn more about the bain-based growth associated with fine art experiences |
Waseca |
MN |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Mark Twain Behavioral Health | My Feelings Are My Art Work |
Hosting an event with the local Miss America/Miss Missouri board...Miss Northeast Counties to conduct My Feelings are My Art Work activity with the Miss Kirksville Teent titleholder, whose platform is "Building Positive Behaviors in Youth" |
Kirksville |
MO |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Circle of HOPE | Children's Mental Health Awareness Day - Art Expo |
A committee made up of community members and partner agencies are organizing a youth art expo to showcase "My feelings are a work of art" projects and ultimately bring awareness to Children's Mental Health. Our goal is to increase the awareness of the system of care, promote services and expand the acceptance of emotional wellness. The week leading up to the event will consist of area youth engaging in different mediums to create their "Art" and showcase their feelings. Our reporting will result from attendance at the Art Expo, May 6 as well as media coverage. The committee has decided to survey agencies and participants after the event is over to determine the success. |
St. Joseph |
MO |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Grace Hill Settlement House | Head Start |
Head Start is a Federal program for preschool children from low-income families. Children who attend Head Start participate in a variety of educational activities that help them grow mentally, socially, emotionally, and physically. They spend time in stimulating, accepting settings where they have the opportunity to learn, experience success, and socialize with others. In addition, Head Start offers parents a sense of belonging, a chance to participate in activities to strengthen the entire family, and support services such as referrals to community agencies. |
St. Louis |
MO |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| building bridges association | Art of Expression |
We will help children to express and share their feelings through Art. |
meridian |
MS |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Vicksburg Warren School District SS/HS Grant | Project SYNC |
School and Youth in a Network Community.. This is our first year of implementation. We will begin with two elementary schools participating in the event and expand in the coming years. Our local mental health agency will have staff members on site for the event as well. We will notify parents through fliers about the event as well. We plan to post information and pictures on our website at the conclusion of the event. |
Vicksburg |
MS |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| THHS -Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes | Healthy Young Minds... Preserving Our Culture |
Tribal elders have advised that family stability, mutual and self-respect, and cultural identity are topics important to them. The Tribe will provide facilities, and children from reservation schools will participate. The program will be arts based and active, emphasizing family participation. It will be publicized on the reservation and adjoining areas. Following, organizers will identify any areas of concern for follow-up, and identify future ways to improve the mental health and quality of life for the children of the Salish and Kootenai Tribes. |
Victor |
MT |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Onslow County Schools Preschool Program | We are a preschool program consisting of Title 1, More @ Four, and HeadStart. We strive to address our students socioemotional needs and increase their social skills throughout the year. In honor of Children's Mental Health Day, we will be sending the green ribbon tattoos home at the beginning of the month along with an article about Chilren's Mental Health to increase awareness. In the classrooms, we will be doing the Draw Your Feelings Activity. We will also submit a PSA re: our activities. |
Jacksonville |
NC |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Le'Chris Health Systems of New Bern | Art at Home |
We provide Intensive In-Home services (family preservation) for children at risk. We will be providing an "Art at Home" presentation to each family we serve with materials and developmental education. We will assist parents/guardians to provide a time for their children to be creative as a part of their daily schedule. The goal is to help families to decrease their childrens' video game and television time, to increase family participation in shared art activities, and to help children to increase their coping skills by turning to art for relaxation and expression. We will write and provide an article on the importance of family art experiences for the local newspaper, with examples of some art experiences a family might enjoy together. The children in the families we serve range from age 4 to 17. |
New Bern |
NC |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| HeadStart | We serve children between the ages of 3-5. |
Rocky Mount |
NC |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Carl T. Curtis Guidance and Development | The Minds and heARTS of Our Children Matter |
The Minds and heARTS of Our Children Matter
The Guidance & Development Team from the Carl T. Curtis Center in Macy, Nebraska will be promoting the awareness of children’s mental health through partnering with the local Head Start program and the Omaha Nation School. The goals of the project are making parents, grandparents, and other family members aware of their children’s feelings, explain how parents’ behaviors influence their children’s feelings, learn about signs and symptoms of depression, anxiety, etc. in children, and where to go to get assistance. The “My Feelings are a Work of Art” Project will provide art stations or possibly one huge art project where all the children will be able to create art together. There may also be the possibility that the children will be able to create artwork with their parent or guardian. We will report our success in the community through newsletters, media, TV, meeting at the Tribal Building or Clinic and through invitation to participate in the actual events.
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Macy |
NE |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Washoe County Children Mental Health Consortium | "My Feelings Are a Work of Art" Children's Mental Health Awareness Event |
Our program is focused on meeting the goals of: raising awareness and educating the public of the need for children's mental health care services, the benefit of the creative process for healing and life enhancement, and to promote services of local art therapy and organizations who work at improving the physical, mental and emotional welfare of our community youth. Our partners in this project are: Washoe County Children's Mental Health Consortium, Sierra Arts, Nevada Arts Council, Nevada PEP(Parents Encouraging Parents), Children's Cabinet, West Hills Hospital, and Washoe County School District. We will be serving the Washoe County School District youth who are involved in art classes instructed by Sierra Arts-Artists in Residence program. We are planning to have a visual art project (involving 6-9 schools) as well as possibly literary, dance and theater projects. We will be reporting our success through local news media, and our local newspapers (Sparks Tribune and Reno Gazette Journal). And afterwards we will be having an event with the Sierra Art Foundation to celebrate the youth involved. This might be a performance or artist reception for youth and families to be held at the Sierra Arts Gallery. (This will possibly be in conjunction with an upcoming Sierra Arts Gallery exhibit, "Arts In Health Care.") |
Reno |
Nevada |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Clyde C. Cox | Draw your feelings |
The students are encouraged to draw their feelings. The draw what ever feeling the choose and use what ever drawing materials they choose. |
Las Vegas |
Nevads |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Torrance county Counseling | Children Are People Too. |
Youth from the Teen Court will participate in the program. The objective is to enhance self esteem. Program will consist of an art show at the community center on May 6th 2010. Success will be reported to the community through our local newspaper and a TV station in Albuquerque. |
Moriarty |
new mexico |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| belknap-merrimack Head Start | Head Start and Early Head Start |
am just beginning the planning process and am thinking in terms of the 300 enrolled children and families in our program. I am also on the Infant Mental Health Board of Directors in NH and think that we could use some of this info on our website. I 'm enrolled at Plymouth State University in the CAGS program for mental health couseling and they are starting to explore a offering a certificate in Infant Metnal Health. THere tends to be very little known about children's mental health in the general community and this fits into my ongoing mission of educating the general public and well as professionals on children's mental health issues. |
concord |
nh |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| belknap-merrimack Head Start/Early Head Start | head start |
concord |
nh |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Salem Family Resources and Infant Mental Health Team | Handle with Care Fair |
Salem Family Resources will participate in the National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, May 6, 2010.
In collaboration with the area Infant Mental Health Team, and The Exchange Club of Salem, NH Salem Family Resources provided art materials for young children to create "My Feelings Are a Work of Art" at the "Handle with Care" Fair on April 17, 2010. Art will be displayed in the Salem public library.
During the week of May 3-7, Salem Family Resources Parenting & Play Groups plan an art activity for young children and will provide
handouts to parents, "The DOs and DON'Ts of Responding to Children's
Artwork" and "Building Blocks to Healthy Social/Emotional Development".
Goals for participation in the National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day are to raise awareness of the importance of mental health for young children and their families and to provide resources and referrals to families and professionals who work with families with young children.
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Salem |
NH |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Acelero Head Start | My Feelings Are a Work of Art |
Child Centered Art Activities-
Paint you feelings acitivities with parents
Reading Feelings books
Second Step lessons with parents |
Asbury park |
Nj |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| New Jersey Foundation for the Blind & St. Joseph' School for the Blind | Art is the Language of Feelings |
Blind adult students from the Artist Studio program at NJ Foundation for the Blind will be facilitating painting techniques to children of St. Joseph's School for the Blind. The artwork will be on display at the NJFFB for Children's Mental Health Awareness month and until Labor Day 2010. |
Denville |
NJ |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| EGENOLF EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER | "MY FACE IS A WINDOW TO MY FEELINGS" |
The children and families of the preschool will participate in an activity where they either photo or draw pictures of their face depicting a particular feeling/emotion. The pictures/photos will be displayed throughout the center. A variety of books will be read to the children which portray a variety of feelings and actions responsive to those feelings. Priority will be placed upon "reading" faces to determine feelings and planning an appropriate response to the expression. Children in the center are three and four years old. The art display will be open to the public. |
ELIZABETH |
NJ |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Program for parents | Create and decorate |
Goal to expose toddlers and older children that "Yes I can create". Activities in Branch Brook Park known for their Cherry Blossom Celebration. Why not sketch trees or a Duck in the Pond. Scribble, doodle take actual sticks and build. Awareness with the BBP Alliance, Member and Sponsor.. Thank you |
Newark |
NJ |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Ocean Affiliate of NAEYC | Art Action |
We are promoting participation in the National Art Action through our website, newsletters, email campaign and at our upcoming children's festival. |
Toms River |
NJ |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| North Hudson Community Action corp | Head Start/Early Head Start |
Early Head Start and Head Start serving children ages birth thru 5 years. |
union city |
nj |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| PB&J Family Services, Inc. | Art Day |
PB&J Family Services (http://pbjfamilyservices.org/) provides an array of family-based therapeutic programs for at-risk children and their parents to improve family functioning and enhance child development. On Art Day, coordinated by a staff art therapist, children and parents who attend PB&J’s therapeutic pre-schools have an opportunity to join in imaginative sharing with one another and to experience the healing nature of art. Parents are encouraged to follow their child(ren)’s artistic lead so Art Day also strengthens parents’ skills in supporting their child(ren)’s expressive process. Art stations are set up outdoors and feature activities such as easel, tile, and face painting; clay work; mixed media assemblage; and art for babies. With its festival-like atmosphere, Art Day also serves as a catalyst for participation in other, community-based cultural events throughout central NM that are highlighted in literature available on Art Day. PB&J will inform the community about the success of Art Day via local media outlets and the agency’s newsletter. |
Albuquerque |
NM |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Pueblo of Laguna Division of Early Childhood | How Am I Feeling Today? |
Our program serves children from ages of six weeks through five years. We are in the beginning stages of helping children learn to become emotionally literate. The children will paint their feelings and have groups discussion during their circle time with their peers and teachers.
We also are encouraging a home activity which is the "Feelings Cube" activity. The parents can create a cube out of a milk carton or paper and draw a face on each side displaying a different emotion. The family then sits around the table or in a cirlce on the floor and takes turns rolling the Feelings Cube. Whichever feeling lands face up, the person then describes an event that evoked that particular feeling. This will lead to a family discussion on feelings, provide family bonding and encourage emotional literacy. |
Laguna |
NM |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| R.E. Tobler Elementary School | My Feelings are a Work of Art |
2010 National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day May 6, 2010
I will be working with the first grade classes or aprox. 90 Students in an art activity that will encourage them to use color to express their feelings. On May 3-7 We will discuss our work and share the meaning of our expressions and the feelings we hold. The Student work will be on display for the whole school on May 6th. |
Las Vegas |
NV |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Nevada Office of Suicide Prevention | Reno |
NV |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| American Legion Auxiliary Department of New York | Kids in Danger of Depression and Suicide (KIDDS) |
We will be coordinating with local organizations to conduct Art Action projects that focus on military kids and the special challenges they face when a parent is deployed. We have identified some local community collaborators, and we will be working with Give an Hour to bring in military child mental health experts to participate in the Art Action event. We will report success via press releases, newsletters, and Facebook/Twitter updates. |
Albany |
NY |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Mental Health Association of Erie County, Inc./ FVN of Erie County | Expression Through Art |
Buffalo |
NY |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Putnam Family and Community Services | My Feelings Are Art |
As a rcovery oriented Mental health and Chemical dependency service provider we will provide educational materials for families and an opportunity to creatively express themselves.We have for many years provided this kind of forum several times a year to assist families in remembering how to spend time together,play,listen and learn new ways to catch themselves and their children being good. |
Carmel |
NY |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| The Mental Health Association in Tompkins County | Children's Mental Health Awareness Day 2010 |
We will have a table at The Shops at Ithaca Mall where we will be offering information on children's mental health. We will also have give-a-ways for the children as well as art projects for them to do at the mall or to take home. |
Ithaca |
NY |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Chautauqua Tapestry | My Feelings are a work of Art - CMHA 2010 |
The program is going to be geared at 5th & 6th graders. We are going to present this is the 18 school districts as a project done through Art Class or after school program project mattering on what school choose to participate. The students will create a work of Art. Then 12 of the best pieces of art will be choosen by a panel of judges - possibly local celebrities and members of our governance board.and create it into a calendar that can be dispersed at the schools that participated. We also like to have give each paticipant a gift card for their submission and the winner an ipod and have the works displayed at a local gallery or library. We will include promotion of this activity in the thlocal newspapers and the social marketing web site for Chautauqua Tapestry. The Goal is teach how important feelings are and childrens mental health. The importance of listening to the children and empowering them to be their own advocates. |
Mayville |
NY |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
We will be integrating a feeling fair for Head Start preschool children, art contests for elementary and middle schools, a social media campaign for high school students and families and a coordinated color campaign with partner agencies and businesses to all wear green on 5/6/2010. We will also have teacher lesson plans for working with kids enrolled in Traditional Outpatient Mental Health, Genesis and Alternative School and Partial Hospitalization to identify mental health goals and progress (Hope) and supports (Help.
We are gauging success by participation and survey of participants. We are hoping to also utilize print and media coverage at our centers to extend our reach beyond our own participants and county.
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Cincinnati |
OH |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
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| Peg Tipka LLC--Creative Counseling | My Feelings are a Work of ART! |
In Collaboration with The Coalition for Childrens Mental Health, Peg Tipka Art Therapist will provide art based awareness raising activities focused on the discussion and expression of feelings. This will take place the week of May 6th with Kindergarten through 3rd grade children in local public school classrooms. Educational materials will be sent home to over 1000 parents encouraging a healthy family dialogue with young children about feelings. |
Hudson |
OH |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Oak Hill Elementary School | Oak Hill Elementary Children's Mental Health Awareness Fair |
Our school counselor, psychologist and two certified art teachers have planned our first Children's Mental Health Awareness Fair.
Our after school program 'Project Safe' will design posters to educate the community about the importanc of childhood mental health.
Our theme for the event will be "My Feelings are a Work of Art". The art teachers will be providing hands-on art activities that will encourage children to view art as a way of expressing their emotions.
A number of local mental health agencies will be participating by providing information about their services.
Refreshments will be provided.
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Oak Hill |
OH |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| American Legion Auxiliary Department of Ohio | Kids in Danger of Depression and Suicide (KIDDS) |
We will be coordinating with local organizations to conduct Art Action projects that focus on military kids and the special challenges they face when a parent is deployed. We have identified some local community collaborators, and we will be working with Give an Hour to bring in military child mental health experts to participate in the Art Action event. We will report success via press releases, newsletters, and Facebook/Twitter updates. |
Zanesville |
OH |
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Description |
City |
State |
| The Achievement Centers for Children | Highland Hills |
Ohio |
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| Smart Start South Central | My Feelings Are a Work of Art |
We are partnering with the Child Development Center on our campus to host "My Feelings Are a Work of Art" day. We are going to have the 3 year olds in the program draw with sidewalk chalk with the assistance of their parents on the sidewalks around the center, which hundreds of people walk on each day. We will also have some games and food so that parents can visit and make connections with one another. We will send pictures and an article to the local paper, as well as invite one of the local television stations to do a spot for one of their news programs. |
Ada |
OK |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Choctaw Nation Headstart | "My Feelings Are a Work of Art" |
We are a headstart/pre-school program serving children from ages 3-5years old. We will begin the week by reading the book "I Feel Silly." Will discuss different types of feelings, act out & role model different situations and discuss feelings, use puppets & puppet theater, use musical movement and sing the song "Feelings" and "Sammy." Use the record "Getting to Know Myself." Children will use loft for quiet time and story time, feeling cards, writing activities, and listen to cd "Miracles" (Through the Eyes of a Child.) Children will use the "Apples Feelings Chart/Worms" to pick out their feelings for the day. We will do a art activity on May 6th that allows children to express their feelings. |
Atoka |
OK |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Central Oklahoma Community Mental Health Center, Child and Family Services | NCMHAD- Poster Contest |
Norman After School program and our agency are working on a poster contest with elementary schools. the topic is "my feelings are a work of art". After doing this art project during after school program, kids can decide to enter for the contest. We will display the contestants’ art works and have a celebrity judging on April 27. We have contacted Norman Public Library to display 10 art works. |
Norman |
OK |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Choctaw Nation Head Start | My Feelings Are A Work Of Art |
Poteau |
OK |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Linn Benton Lincoln ESD/ Safe Schools, Healthy Students Initiative | Linn County Safe Schools Project |
We are a Safe Schools Healthy Students Grant site. Our project is a strong community/seven school district collaborative that is focused on strengthening our youth/family services/systems of care. We are just beginning with our planning for National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day. Hope to include a number of pre schools and early elementary grades throughout our county in this year's Art Action. |
Albany |
OR |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Linn-Benton Community College | Children's Mental Health Awareness Day |
Our county 's Early Childhood Team represents all the agencies serving young children and their families in Linn County. We are looking at doing an art action across our programs. We are participating in a SAfe Schools Helathy Students grant and will be working with the grant coordinator to promote the project. |
Albany |
OR |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| NAMI of Washington County, Oregon | Through Our Eyes Expressions of Life |
Working with youth 12-21 who have mental illness, are a sibling or are a child of someone who has mental illness. Through the art writing and painting these children tell us how they feel about mental illness. We show the art in the community and have made a book. We have asked our local MH providers to have thier youth provide also. We provide free art and writing classes. |
Aloha |
Oregon |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| American Legion Auxiliary Call To Service Corps Project | My Feelings Are a Work of Art |
Our overall goal is to promote children’s mental health. We intend to increase the awareness that art can be used as a tool to help foster the healthy communication of feelings and emotions for people including elementary school age children. We are planning a citywide drawing and sketch program that we hope will include Portland Public Schools, The Portland Zoo and The Portland Children’s Museum. We intend to enlist local certified Art Therapists to conduct weekly information meetings for parents interested in learning more about uses of art therapy as a mental health resource for adults and children of all ages. |
Wilsonville |
Oregon |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Centerville Clinics, Inc | Our program will focus on increasing use of art work in the therapeutic setting and encouraging youth to express themselves through the use of art. Youth served will be those participating in our outpatient mental health programs and some of their projects will be on display in our waiting room. |
Fredericktown |
pa |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
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| Harrisburg PreK Program / PA PreK Counts |
Harrisburg PreK Program is collaboration between Harrisburg School District (funded by PA PreK counts) and Capital Area Head Start. We provide PreK services to 608 3and 4 year old children in 38 classrooms across the Harrisburg catchment area. The goal of this partnership is to use developmentally appropriate methods to provide early learning experiences that will increase school readiness and prepare the children for academic and social success. In addition to academic programs, we use a High Scope curriculum and an embedded, research based social emotional curriculum (PATHS) that teach children to respect their classroom community and their peers, identify and express emotions, and find appropriate solutions to their problems. All activities within the classroom are aligned with PA early learning standards.
In the weeks leading up to Mental Health Awareness Day, the parents will participate in a series of facilitated group discussions to increase understanding and provide ways to support their children’s Social/ Emotional development and address discrepancies in this area. On Mental Health Awareness day, we will invite parents, community members, and local providers into the school buildings to view the children's work and participate in a S/E lesson. In 1 or 2 of the larger buildings, local child mental health and family services providers will be invited to display and provide information on services available through their agencies. My hope is that the day’s events will increase an understanding of the importance and the challenges of addressing Early Childhood Mental Health and an understanding of how to access services in our community.
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Harrisburg |
PA |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Harrisburg PreK Program / PA PreK Counts |
Harrisburg PreK Program is collaboration between Harrisburg School District (funded by PA PreK counts) and Capital Area Head Start. We provide PreK services to 608 3and 4 year old children in 38 classrooms across the Harrisburg catchment area. The goal of this partnership is to use developmentally appropriate methods to provide early learning experiences that will increase school readiness and prepare the children for academic and social success. In addition to academic programs, we use a High Scope curriculum and an embedded, research based social emotional curriculum (PATHS) that teach children to respect their classroom community and their peers, identify and express emotions, and find appropriate solutions to their problems. All activities within the classroom are aligned with PA early learning standards.
In the weeks leading up to Mental Health Awareness Day, the parents will participate in a series of facilitated group discussions to increase understanding and provide ways to support their children’s Social/ Emotional development and address discrepancies in this area. On Mental Health Awareness day, we will invite parents, community members, and local providers into the school buildings to view the children's work and participate in a S/E lesson. In 1 or 2 of the larger buildings, local child mental health and family services providers will be invited to display and provide information on services available through their agencies. My hope is that the day’s events will increase an understanding of the importance and the challenges of addressing Early Childhood Mental Health and an understanding of how to access services in our community.
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Harrisburg |
PA |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Child Guidance Resource Centers | Creative Expressions |
Our goal for this project with our elementary school students is to provide an additional outlet for students to express their thoughts and feelings. We will dedicate a day to do this project and will submit press releases in addition to using our listserv, website & social media to share our activity with the community. |
Havertown |
PA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Patches Place | Kids need good mental health too! |
We have many adults with mental illness but they don't think that their children could have any problems. We want to provide parents with information on children's mental health issues. We will use a newsletter that goes out to providers and other organizations. We will have serveral video prenstations on children's MH topics for adults to watch throughout the month. |
New Castle |
PA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| School District of Philadelphia, Pa/ Roxborough High School | Open House Art Expo @ Roxborough high School |
I recently became aware of this day and immediately spoke to my colleagues about this event and decided to keep it simple since we didn't have much time.We plan to have a school wide program where everyone who wants to participate may enter a work of art for our Open House Art Expo at Roxborough High School in Philadelphia, Pa. On May 6, 2010, we plan to invite our parents and the community businesses and agencies in for an Art Expo show casing our students art “My Feelings Are a Work of Art.” Students will be able to work with art teachers and other staff at school to create works of art for an Art Exhibit at our school. An invitation will be sent parents, community businesses, health agencies, and recreation centers to attend our Open House Art Expo celebrating “Mental Health Awareness Day.” Bridging the gap between Communities, Schools, and Family Partnerships; with this method we can help promote positive youth development, engage families, establish community partnerships, and raise mental health awareness.
Our goal is to make parents, grandparents and guardians aware of their youth’s feelings and how the behavior of their parents and guardians influence their feelings, behavior and their ability to learn in and out of school. In addition our goal is to provide information on the signs and symptoms of depression, anxiety, etc in children and youth. Provide information to local resources to assist youth and families to help build a “System of Care.”
Finally, our school has had a turbulent year so this is our opportunity to reveal, revive, rejuvenate and encourage ourselves so that we can heal.
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Philadelphia |
Pa |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| The Delaware Valley Art Therapy Association | My Feelings are a Work of Art |
The board of the Delaware Valley Art Therapy Association will invite our membership to join us in volunteering our time on May 6, 2010 at The Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, PA. In keeping with AATA's theme, 'my feelings are a work of art', The DVATA will have tables set up all day for vistors to the museum. Children will be given a piece of paper with a pre-drawn frame and instructed "Your feelings are a work of art, draw your feelings". All children that visit the museum are accompied by an adult so when they complete their drawing we will encourage communication of feelings between child and adult. We expect to see 500 - 1,000 children on this day! We will also provide a list of mental health and art therapy services in the area for children as a resource for any adult that is interested in more information. We will use our newsletter and website, www.dvata.org, to report this event. |
Philadelphia |
PA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Woodland Hills Academy | My Feelings Are A Work of Art! |
The school counselor and art teacher will cooperate and plan poster/art activity for elem. students at an after school-tutoring program. The goal is to encourage children to express their feelings through art. |
Turtle Creek |
Pa |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Fayette County Behavioral Health Administration | Visit local day care centers and preschool programs to reinforce the importance of social/emotional growth in young children. |
Uniontown |
PA |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Music and Art ABC's | Corinne Greskiewicz |
Music and Art ABC’s will be participating in this year’s National Children’s Mental Health Awareness - Art Action Day to be held on Thursday, May 6, 2010. We will be opening up our studio from 10am to 11:30am and from 3:15 to 4:45pm and inviting children (with their caregivers) from our community to create art and discuss feelings.
Our masters-level Art Therapist and Art Teacher, Corinne, will lead the children in a discussion about feelings using famous works of art. Children will then have a chance to make their own art using paint, oil pastels and collage materials to explore feelings of happy, sad, scared and mad. The discussion and art task will be tailored to the age of children present.
Information regarding children’s creative, social and emotional development will be shared with their caregivers during the event.
The goals of this event are:
-to encourage children to identify, explore and discuss feelings
-to provide the children with language to help explain feelings
-to encourage the use of art to promote social and emotional development
-to help bring about awareness of children’s mental health in our community
-to make the community and caregivers aware of the value of children’s involvement in art-making and the value of artistic expression in general
This event will be advertised on our website, MusicandArtABCs.com, at Taylor’s Music Store in downtown West Chester, PA, and with regional, family-oriented newspapers and online resources. A report on the success of the event will be shared with the community in the same way. |
West Chester |
PA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Angels' Place Inc. | Swissvale |
Pa. |
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| FDHP Head Start | "Mis sentimientos son una obra de arte" |
Children, parents and teacher will draw a mural as a team about their feelings, showing to be proud to express feelings. These will be a special project to those receiving training about CSEFEL. |
Caguas |
PR |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Research, Consulting, & Evaluation | Consulting services for head start and children care centers in PR. Our goals are to facilitate awareness, communication, and care for infants, parents and children. Ours is a wraparound approach for families and caretakers. |
Ponce |
PR |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Head Start Sabana Grande | Head st |
Sabana Grande |
PR |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Head Start Sabana Grande | Head Start |
Our program includes 638 children who participate in the preschool.Mental Health is normative requirement. The message will be presented to children and parents using childrens drawings.Drawings will be shown at the facility. |
Sabana Grande |
PR |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Parent Support Network of Rhode Island | RI Positive Educational Partnership |
birth to three, early care settings-Art action, elementary schools-Youth action, and broad based promotion of positive mental health and we will share through art, pictures, and evaluation report |
Johnston |
Rhode Island |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Parent Support Network of Rhode Island | RI Positive Educational Partnership |
birth to three, early care settings-Art action, elementary schools-Youth action, and broad based promotion of positive mental health and we will share through art, pictures, and evaluation report |
Johnston |
Rhode Island |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Family Service of Rhode Island | Children's Treatment and Recovery Center |
WIll be doing activites for youth in our center, we are very interested in completing the art action. We will report our success through e-mail and facebook.
Any resources or help is appreciated.
We would like the materials for the When I Grow Up activity. |
Providence |
RI |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Federation of Families of SC (affiliate of FFCMH) | Art Action |
We will implement Art Action, using the theme, "My Feelings are a Work of Art" in Columbia, SC. Our goal will be to raise awareness for children's mental health and the importance of finding creative ways to talk about it. We are hoping to partner with one elementary school in the community. The youth will draw their feelings and discuss them. Youth leaders and adults will facilitate at the event. We would like a kit in order to assist with our event. |
Columbia |
SC |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Neighborhood Centers Inc. | Foundations Project |
Our grant provides social and emotional support to pre-school children, and early childcare teachers working in private childcare facilities. Our team will colloborate with the early childcare teachers and parents by displaying "My Feelings Are a Work of Art" in an art gallery at their centers displaying their feelings. We will ask parents to volunteer at their respective child's childcare center reading books to their child's class on feelings. We will also have a display of books about feelings available for parents, teachers, and community partners to view. We will have each center place notices in their upcoming parent newsletter to increase awareness in observance of Children's Mental Health Awareness Day. |
Houston |
Texas |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| the Hays Consolidated Independent School District | "My Feelings Are a Work of Art" Display |
Students in grades K-3 at Camino Real Elementary School will be working with their art teacher to create artwork around a theme of "My Feelings Are a Work of Art" in anticipation of National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day. Student artwork will be on display May 6 for all staff, students, and parents to appreciate and to learn about the connection between children's artwork and their thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. News of and reponses to this event will be brought to the attention of the school district and the surrounding community. |
Kyle |
Texas |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| The Center for Health Care Services | My Feelings are a work of ART |
On April 21, 2010 in San Antonio, Texas, Tynan Elementary School is hosting an all day Art Action Event in which HeadStart Students, Teachers, Parents and Friends will create ART to facilitated recognition and communication about Feelings from a preschoolers perspective. Student artwork will be displayed through out the school and placed on display at the Texas State Capital the week of May 6, 2010 |
San Antonio |
Texas |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| The Center for Health Care Services | All my feelings are a work of ART! |
Licensed Therapists will be providing Mental Wellness education and project materials to the HeadStart programs in San Antonio, Texas. Each student will receive a family development project designed by The Center for Health Care Services Art Therapist, to engage Parents and Preschoolers in an ART making experience. Parents will receive educational materials regarding the Do's and Don'ts of using Art with preschoolers such that both parents and child will learn and promote appropriate expression of feelings. The Artwork created will be featured at each HeadStart Center further promoting the essential communication between teachers, students, and parents necessary for positive emotional and academic development. |
San Antonio |
Texas |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| The Gulf Coast Center | "Piecing it Together" |
Our goal is to use art as a means of helping elementary, school aged children to express their individual post Hurricane Ike feelings that may be too big for words. On September 12, 2008, Hurricane Ike barreled through Galveston County causing community wide destruction and devastation. Over a year later, people remain displaced, living in FEMA trailers, their lives, along with the landscape, foever altered. Our Mental Health clinic located in Galveston County, one of the hardest hit areas, serves familes and children who are still "piecing their lives together" post Hurricane Ike. We intend to reach out to the children in our service area through our clinic and possibly schools, allowing them to participate in the creative, ancient, healing art of tile mosaics. We will create mosaic stepping stones, representative of the rebuilding process, restoring mental health one piece at a time, and moving forward through the healing process, one step at a time. Photos will be taken of the process and the completed art works and displayed in our clinic and the community on a "Wall of Fame!" |
Texas City |
Texas |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| The Gulf Coast Center | "Piecing it Together" |
Our goal is to use art as a means of helping elementary, school aged children to express their individual post Hurricane Ike feelings that may be too big for words. On September 12, 2008, Hurricane Ike barreled through Galveston County causing community wide destruction and devastation. Over a year later, people remain displaced, living in FEMA trailers, their lives, along with the landscape, foever altered. Our Mental Health clinic located in Galveston County, one of the hardest hit areas, serves familes and children who are still "piecing their lives together" post Hurricane Ike. We intend to reach out to the children in our service area through our clinic and possibly schools, allowing them to participate in the creative, ancient, healing art of tile mosaics. We will create mosaic stepping stones, representative of the rebuilding process, restoring mental health one piece at a time, and moving forward through the healing process, one step at a time. Photos will be taken of the process and the completed art works and displayed in our clinic and the community on a "Wall of Fame!" |
Texas City |
Texas |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| ACFI Head Start | "Color my World" |
We are a Head Start Program that serves 686 children, ages 3 to 5 in the Victoria area and surrounding communities.Our program has been recently talking about how to get the message out about the importance of educating parents within the program and the community of Mental Health issues that can and do affect children and dispelling some of the stigma attached to Mental Health.Working with a Mental Health Consultant in our program we have seen a need for this type of awarness and trying to get more involvemt from parents, staff and the community. I feel this Art Awarness campaign could certainly go a long way in helping us be able to break down the barriers of this very important topic. |
Victoria |
Texas |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Austin Shelter for Women and Children, The Salvation Army | "My Feelings Are a Work of Art" |
From 6:30pm - 8:00pm we will have different art stations set up. Each station will focus on a specific feeling - happy, sad and mad. There will be psychoeducational children's books read by a volunteer while the children assemble multi-media art projects based upon each feeling. The child (with assistance if needed) will write a short description of their project. The projects will be displayed in the shelter to serve as a reminder that feelings are always present and works of art. |
Austin |
TX |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| South Texas Art Therapy Association | Capitol Art Display: My Feelings Are a Work of Art |
Goal: To increase awareness of children's mental health needs and the role of art and art therapy in ehlping children heal.
Project: Display the work of children from a variety of community settings in the State Capitol's Main Gallery.
Partners: South Texas Art Therapy Association members working in community, non-profit, educational and private practice settings. We are also currently builidng a list of partnership agencies.
We hope to also present a resolution and have media coverage for the exhibit which will be open May 3rd through 10th. |
Austin |
TX |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| South Texas Art Therapy Association, the Children's Partnership, & the Child and Youth Mental Health Planning Partnership | Celebration of National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day at the Lucy Read Pre-K Demonstration School |
The South Texas Art Therapy Association is partnering with the Children's Partnership and the Child & Youth Mental Health Planning Partnership to present an activity-filled evening to the general public. Among the many activities will be the distribution of children's art activity books and parent folders to highlight the importance of using artwork as a means of communicating thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. |
Austin |
TX |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| American Art Therapy Association | Art Therapy Association |
Art Therapy - Children's Mental Health Awareness Day |
Alexandrai |
VA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Patrick Henry Elementary School | Feelings Art |
The counselor will be collaborating with the art teachers in grades Pre-K through 3rd grade to create artistic ways to express feelings through drawings. For example, a Picasso unit will incorporate 1/2 happy face and 1/2 sad face. Students will find creative ways to draw the way they feel then discuss their drawings and ways to express feelings. We will be showcasing drawings in the school building and individual classrooms. A note in the all-school newsletter will also address this lesson and mental health awareness. |
Arlington |
VA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Safe Schools/Healthy Students | Mental Health Awareness Month |
This project will be developed in collaboration with the local mental health community service board and the preschool programs funded through Safe Schools/Healthy Student grant. We are currently developing our plan for community roll out. |
Charlottesville |
VA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Nottingham Elementary School | Feelings Are a Work of Art |
We will have our students contribute visual art for a bulletin board in the main hallway of our school. We will discuss Mental Health in the schoolwide counseling newsletter. We will share our event with broader community on our school web page. |
Falls Church |
VA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Rappahannock Council Against Sexual Assault | Art in Action - Creative Conversations Between Kids and Parents |
The Rappahannock Council Against Sexual Assault is a crisis and counseling center serving survivors of abuse. Our project will utilize art to create visual conversations between children and parents on the impact of violence and utilizing art for expression of feelings. We will recruit children and parents to participate in the art expression group and partner with an area agency to display the art on May 6th, 2010. |
Fredericksburg |
VA |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Effinger Elementary School, Rockbridge County Schools, VA | Sharing feelings thru art |
The art teacher and I will team up to do the projects that we receive through this program. |
Lexington |
VA1 |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Vermont art therapy association | Art is real when it heals. |
The Vermont Art Therapy Association (ATAV) will be partnering with the Burlington Boys and Girls Club and the Integrated Arts Academy (IAA) magnet school in Burlington Vermont to provide children in grades K - 2 with art experiences that will increase the child's understanding of the mind and body connection, and how feelings can impact their bodies utilizing the theme "my feelings are a work of art". Specific art activities will be provided to groups of children working with art therapists who are members of the ATAV, after school at the IAA on May 6th in recognition of Children's Mental Health Awareness Day. The "art action" oriented activities will be filmed and the participants will have an opportunity to present the art work they complete, and describe their understanding of how feelings can be expressed by the body and how art can heal, in the film. The film will then be put onto DVDs and distributed to the local school districts and other agencies and programs serving young children in the community for viewing. The participants will each receive a DVD to keep. The necessary releases for the children to participate, and to have themselves and their work filmed will be obtained in advance. The art activities will increase the participants understanding of the relationship between their bodies and their feelings, while also offering them the opportunity to experience the relief that art making can bring, and increase the possibility that they will utilize art making in the future to manage their feelings. The film will also increase the young children's self esteem and sense of mastery with an opportunity to view them in a positive and pro-active activity knowing that the film will be promoted in the local community, enhancing their feelings of connection, permancy and empowerment. The film will communicate to other children, agencies, schools, providers, the community and care givers; the power that art can provide to help children heal and grow via the art activities the children are engaged in, in addition to the film itself which is "art in action". Sometime after May 6th and before June, the film will be presented to the local community at the IAA and there will be a short educational presentation by members of the ATVA about art therapy with an opportunity for questions from the audience. Press releases will be sent to the local media and pictures will be posted on the appropriate web sites. |
Shelburne |
VT |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Spokane Tribe of Indians | Children of the Sun |
A childrens Pow wow at the tribal camp ground. |
Wellpinit |
WA |
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Description |
City |
State |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Polk County Early Learning Center CESA 11 Head Start | Polk County Mental Health Task Force |
Collaborative effort by all County Agencies to promote awareness and prompt treatment for mental health issues in our County. |
Balsam Lake |
WI |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Hope House of South Central Wisconsin | My Feelings Are a Work of Art - Students Against Abuse and Violence (SAAV) |
Young clients of Hope House will submit art or writing projects that describe their experiences of abuse. Kids from area high schools/middle schools will also be invited to submit similar artwork or writing. Completed projects will be on display at our Resource Center in Baraboo in our Kids' Area beginning May 6th. |
Baraboo |
WI |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Wisconsin Art Therapy Association | not named yet |
We are looking for information that will help with our organizations participation in this day's events. We are looking to obtain the 'kit' in order to find the most valuable way for us to engage. |
Brown Deer |
WI |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Safe Schools/Healthy Students | Awareness Day Art Initiative |
We would like to take part in the Art Initiative for Awareness Day at the Elementary level |
Juneau |
WI |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Safe Schools/Healthy Students federal grant | Safe Schools/Healthy Students |
I am only just looking into the possibilities as I research Mental Health Day. I would like to implement at the early ed. level. |
Juneau |
WI |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| New Glarus Grade School and NAMI Green County | Our NAMI affiliate is always anxious to find ways to reduce the stigma involved with mental illness and the New Glarus Grade School has agreed to help with our project. There are also members of our church who are looking for a worthy project. We are hoping to use the Art Therapy project or something extremely close to it. Our children are our most important asset and they need to know that they are alright....mental illness and related depression can be scary. It's a disease; it can be treated. Children can be very accepting and they don't hesitate to be vocal with what they know. We will report our project to the local media and maybe try to get our Madison, WI news stations involved as well as other Green County media. |
New Glarus |
WI |
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Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| Renewal Unlimited | Head Start/Early Head Start |
Head Start and Early Head Start agency serving just under 800 children (ages birth to 5 and pregnant moms) over a 5 county area both center and home based. |
Portage |
wi |
Organization | Project |
Description |
City |
State |
| MountainHeart Community Services HS/EHS | My Feelings are a Work of Art |
Head Start and Early Head Start children will be encouraged to participate in discussions and art activities about how it feels to be "sad" or "happy". Artwork will displayed in each center. |
Pineville |
WV |
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Description |
City |
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| Campbell County School District | Gillette |
WY |
Return to the American Art Therapy Association Web site.
Search the American Art Therapy Association Web National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day Project Database.