[gallery ids="1056,1057,1058"] Artists for Trauma is pleased to announce that we are the new Healing through Art program for Next Step Fitness based in Lawndale, CA. Next Step Fitness was founded by Janne Kouri and his wife, Susan, after an accident left him paralyzed, and rehabilitation facilities...
"The 2 million veterans who are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan have had their lives changed by war. As they come home, they have the potential to change the lives of civilians, too." At the recent UCLA and Zocalo event "How Veterans Are Changing America,"...
Artists for Trauma shared the red carpet and celebrated the well-attended, successful screening of 'Girl Rising', facilitated by Tess Cacciatore of G.W.E.N. and Wendy Silvers of Million Mamas Movement. Tess Cacciatore Co-Founder / COO of G.W.E.N.,Laura Sharpe, Founder / Executive Director, Artists for Trauma,Wendy Silvers, Founder...
We are so grateful to the Los Angeles County Lifeguards and all first responders for all that they do. ...
To the runners, families, friends, supporters and the people of Boston- No one should ever have to feel the fear, hurt, and pain that yesterday's events manifested. This is, unfortunately, not the first bombing of innocent victims we have seen, nor will it likely be the...
Following up on the recovery of our very own Superman, AFT’s first student artist, Ford Austin, we were blessed with a letter from Lauree Dash Austin, who shares her perspective as the wife and primary caregiver of a trauma survivor. Thank you to Lauree and...
After watching a screening of Dreamworks' "Rise of the Guardians" at the Malibu Film Society, I was lucky to get a chance to speak with Producer Christina Steinberg after the film. I was so inspired by the film and its message of keeping belief and...
I had several more epiphanies of heightenedAwareness,like electric, magnetic jolts of connection withrelevance, gratitude and recognitionof many manifestations of serious Level 1 trauma that occurs in life, all around our world and on this planet we live. Last month I saw the new James Bond film...
In talking with my young friend, Alexis N. , recently I was explaining and sharing my perceptions about infection. How certain things in life are infectious. Good germs and bad germs. In Level 1 trauma, infection, risk management and prevention of infection are dominant concerns. Spontaneously...
