Project America
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
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Three Training Supervisors, including art therapists Edna Bacon and Miranda Smith, will co-lead an ArtReach Model demonstration workshop at the American Association of Art Therapy Annual Conference on July 13. Registration is limited to those attending the conference. For more information, see AATA website....
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
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ArtReach Faculty will lead ArtReach Project America workshops and speak at the Military Experience and the Arts Symposium July 5-7, 2012 hosted by Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY. All events at the symposium are free, and will include daily workshops, peer-review sessions, roundtables, the release of the second volume of The Journal of Military Experience, the Graffiti of War Conflict Art Exhibit, and the presence of numerous veterans organizations. We will post updates as we get closer. For more information and to register, go to here: http://militaryexperience.org/symposium...
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
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ArtReach hosted 2 workshops on March 17, one for Veterans Only and the other an Introductory Workshop for clinicians, civilians, and Board members. The Veterans workshop was led by ARF Training Supervisors Miranda Smith MEd, ALPC and Christiane O’Hara PhD and Trainee Priscilla Omega. The Introductory workshop wasled by Training Supervisors Karimah Dillard, MA ADT, Karen McCarty, LPC LMFT, Trainer Kathy Boardman MA, and Trainee veteran Carolyn Bacon. Participants in each group were guided through meditation and visualization, art, creative writing, drama, dance, music, and movement to access personal metaphors and connect as a group. Thanks once again to St...
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
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Sunday, December 18th, 2011
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
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Christiane O’Hara, Co-Chair for ArtReach Project America, represented ArtReach on Nov. 2, 2011 to present our Model at “A Better Welcome Home: Transformative Models to Support Veterans and their Families Conference” hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Thirty organizations were invited to share their work, and video has been distributed to over 11,000 individuals and municipalities. To see our ArtReach presentation, see below: Click here for more information about the conference...
Friday, October 14th, 2011
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Members of the ArtReach Project America team, Christiane O’Hara, PHD and Timothy Puetz, PHD were pleased to present at an invitation only National Summit called Arts in Healing for Warriors held in Washington D.C. October 14-15. This summit created stimulating, interdisciplinary dialogue that highlighted important elements of the future of arts and medicine in the military. A keynote presenter Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, along with other prominent speakers described the evidence base for the efficacy of arts programs in promoting recovery from illness and injury, with special emphasis on resilience, psychological healing, family strengthening, reintegration, and other topics of interest...
Sunday, July 24th, 2011
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In our new partnership with Georgia Tech Research Institute, The ArtReach Foundation®, on July 22 and 23 brought together mental health professionals from the fields of creative arts therapies and innovative technologies to assist active duty military, veterans and their families with issues relating to combat PTSD and mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). The conference was held at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Center, in Atlanta. Speakers included Major General Maria Britt and Colonel Dan Zachman of the GA National Guard, Holly Pavliscsak, BS, MHSA, from TATRC, Ron Capp from Veterans Writing Project, Melissa Walker, MA, ATR, Healing Arts Program...
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
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Founder, Susan Anderson and Advisor, Jim Stapleton, COL US Army (RET) recently met with Congressman Lewis to discuss ArtReach:Project America and its GA Pilot Program for GA Military and their Families. ArtReach is most appreciative for his endorsement and getting others to do the same for us. John Lewis Letter National Guard Letter...
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