This training series will focus on infusing the Creative Wellbeing approach and healing-centered arts education into the child welfare system. The three experiential sessions will provide tangible strategies and tools to support child welfare system-impacted children, youth, transitional age youth (TAY), and the adults who support them. Across the three sessions, our goal is to uplift and center culturally relevant and healing-centered arts approaches as strategies to nurture cultures of wellbeing that support both youth and adults. Participants can expect to learn practical interventions for daily use with youth, colleagues, and families. The series will feature teaching artists from the PLUS ME Project, Upward Together, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles.

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 nontraditional 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 discover 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 project of the LA Arts Ed Collective, developed through collaboration among the LA County Department of Arts and Culture, Office of Child Protection, and Department of Mental Health, as well as the Arts for Healing and Justice Network, to advance the goals of the LA County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education.

If applicable, 2 CE credits are available per session.