Creative Wellbeing is an approach for fostering communities of wellness, especially for systems-impacted youth, those at-risk of becoming systems-impacted, and the adults who support them. The model offers strategies for promoting mental health and wellness that include culturally responsive, healing-centered, arts-based learning for youth, as well as professional development, coaching, and emotional support for adults.
Explore these resources to gain strategies to promote positive cognitive, social, and emotional development and to increase protective factors like emotional coping skills, social connectedness, and community supports. Learn more about how the Creative Wellbeing approach is being implemented in LA County.
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This guide supports support teaching artists and facilitators in understanding the foundational concepts of Creative Wellbeing. It is a springboard to brainstorm, design, and lead your own Creative Wellbeing activities and workshops. We encourage you to be creative in your applications of the tools and strategies.
This guide provides tips and strategies for facilitating activities virtually. These strategies are a result of scanning best practices in a rapidly-emerging field, as well as lessons learned from Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network members in implementing training adaptations to virtual spaces.The guide will focus primarily on in-person facilitation, but can also provide important virtual guidance.
An arts, schools and resilience professional development training workshop.