Creative Works Studio
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The Creative Works Studio is an occupational therapy program that uses creative arts to help individuals with mental health challenges or addictions heal and cope. Their mission is to provide a safe community studio for marginalized people to express themselves through art and experience greater self-esteem, confidence, and community participation. They value creative arts as a means for healing, their members as artists, and personal growth through therapeutic principles.
Creative Works Studio
- 1. Inner City Health Program
- 2. The Creative Works Studio is an occupational therapy based program.
- 3. The Creative Works Studio helps individuals living with mental health challenges heal and cope . . .
- 4. Healing through the power of artistic expression.
- 6. Our Mission is to provide a community based creative arts studio
- 8. . . .that offers a safe and accepting place of healing
- 9. . . .for people marginalized by the challenges of living with severe and persistent mental illness or addictions.
- 10. The healing process is based on the integration of the principles of occupational therapy, mental health, primary care, visual arts and vocational counselling.
- 12. We support our members on their self-guided journey to self-expression through art
- 13. . . .greater self esteem, improved confidence and eventually increased participation with the larger community.
- 15. We value each member and each member¨s contribution to our community
- 16. We value: Creative arts as the preferred medium for healing
- 17. We value: Our members as artists
- 19. We Value: Personal growth, enabled through applied therapeutic principles
- 20. We value: The studio as a safe and accepting place for our members
- 21. We value: Professionalism, integrity and excellence in our work
- 22. We value: Public education and advocacy
- 23. ＾I need a place to go... where I can create things and be proud of my work, an opportunity to contribute to the community.￣
- 24. Annual Art Exhibition December 1 & 2
- 25. 2012 Creative Works Studio Calendar: The Blues