Wellbeing for LA Creative Wellbeing Summer Renewal Retreat: 3-Part Interactive Training Series

Type:

Virtual Training

Duration:

3 sessions (1 hour, 30 minutes each)

CE credits:

4.5 CEs

Presented by:

DMH + UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence

Developed by:

Creative Wellbeing

Featuring:

Barbara Fant, MFA; Street Poets Inc.; Rhythm Arts Alliance; and WriteGirl/Bold Ink Writers

Relevant categories:

Cultural Responsiveness Resilience Trauma Informed Interventions

Overview

Creative Wellbeing provides culturally relevant, healing-centered arts education that builds mental health protective factors for system-involved youth impacted by LA County's child welfare system. Creative Wellbeing is a non-traditional approach that integrates arts and mental health strategies to support social-emotional development and healing from trauma. Join us to learn more about the Creative Wellbeing Approach, experience it in action, and ways you can embed it into your own practice!

This series is brought to you by a partnership between Wellbeing for LA and Creative Wellbeing, a strategic collaboration between the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Office of Child Protection, Department of Mental Health, and the Arts for Healing and Justice Network, as part of the LA County Arts Education Collective to advance the goals of Arts for All Children, Youth, & Families: Los Angeles County’s New Regional Blueprint for Arts Education.

Keywords: arts and healing, community care, creative wellbeing, healing-informed, non-traditional mental health approaches, participation, self-care

Public link for sharing: https://learn.wellbeing4la.org/detail?id=211125&k=76527343

Learning objectives

Describe the four foundational concepts of the Creative Wellbeing approach
Discuss the impact of culturally relevant engagement on mental wellbeing
Identify three strategies for incorporating healing-informed arts into interactions with youth, families, and colleagues
Discuss the significance of self- and community care for youth-supporting adults in healing-centered arts approaches

Training times

Date	Time	Availability
August 03, 2022 (Wednesday) -- Featuring: Rhythm Arts Alliance August 10, 2022 (Wednesday) -- Featuring: Street Poets Inc. August 17, 2022 (Wednesday) -- Featuring: WriteGirl / Bold Ink Writers	11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (for all dates)	FULL

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