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Trauma-Informed & Healing-Centered Practice Through the Arts Guidebook
How might the arts and arts education sectors join efforts to advance the healing and transformation of students and communities?
The Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered Through the Arts Guidebook, was designed to provide arts partner organizations and teaching artists with sector-wide assistance, thought partnership, and capacity building in understanding, implementing, and advancing trauma-informed and healing-centered approaches and competencies into organizational and programmatic practice.
Through a series of video trainings, guiding questions, recommendations, assessments, and a myriad of additional tools and resources, this course guidebook will share replicable strategies for sustained practice, change, and transformation for healing in and through the arts.
The Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered Through the Arts Guidebook, was designed to provide arts partner organizations and teaching artists with sector-wide assistance, thought partnership, and capacity building in understanding, implementing, and advancing trauma-informed and healing-centered approaches and competencies into organizational and programmatic practice.
Through a series of video trainings, guiding questions, recommendations, assessments, and a myriad of additional tools and resources, this course guidebook will share replicable strategies for sustained practice, change, and transformation for healing in and through the arts.
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Guidebook Collaborators
Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative
The Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative (the Collaborative) is a broad range of multi-sectoral stakeholders committed to expanding the understanding of trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their impact on the health and well-being of Illinois children, families, communities, and systems.
Illinois Collaboration on Youth
Since 2009, ICOY has provided technical assistance and training to youth service providers, clinicians, and community programs throughout Illinois. We have adopted a public health approach to our trauma-informed education and training to strengthen youth-serving organizations’ trauma-informed capacity, working directly with hundreds of agencies and communities to build and sustain trauma-informed policy, practice, and culture.
Chicago Growth Mindset
Chicago Growth Mindset (CGM) creates the opportunities for people to cope with life’s demands by providing comprehensive Mental Health services to individuals, families and building positive workplace cultures in professional settings. CGM staff are diverse in background and thought, a bilingual group of experienced and caring mental health professionals with a broad range of affordable counseling services that address the whole person: mind, body, and spirit. Our vision is a society where everyone can achieve mental wellness with dignity, respect and where emotional wellbeing is the foundation of a healthy community.
Institute for Therapy Through the Arts
Institute for Therapy through the Arts provides creative solutions to life’s challenges whether they be emotional, physical or neurological. Creative Arts Therapy is the clinical use of expressive art forms by a credentialed professional to promote optimal functioning of one’s physical and emotional health. People of all ages can benefit from our therapies including those with developmental challenges, Autism, mental illness, emotional distress, neurological disorders and histories of trauma.