Wellbeing for LA Creative Wellbeing Winter Renewal Retreat (Part 2)
Overview
Creative Wellbeing provides culturally relevant, healing-centered arts education that builds mental health protective factors for system-involved youth impacted by Los Angeles County's child welfare system. Creative Wellbeing is a nontraditional approach that integrates arts and mental health strategies to support social-emotional development and healing from trauma.
This series is brought to you by a partnership between Wellbeing for LA and Creative Wellbeing, a strategic collaboration between the LA 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, and Families: LA County’s New Regional Blueprint for Arts Education.
This session was led by teaching artists Matthew Hernandez and Jorge Nuñez from Street Poets Inc.
Learning objectives
- Define protective factors in the context of working with young people
- Explain how culturally relevant arts engagement can nurture mental wellbeing
- Describe 2 protective factors that healing-centered arts engagement can nurture
Professional credit
- This activity offers the following types of credit: APA
- 1.0 CEs are available.
- Additional details can be found in the activity document for this resource.