Speakers Bureau
UCLArts and Healing expands awareness and availability of
arts-based tools for healing by offering referral services to the community. In addition to recommending presenters for events, we can also collaborate directly with the requesting group.
In 2009, UCLArts and Healing delivered several training programs to the entire staff of the Boys and Girls Club of East Los Angeles in the use of arts-based activities for social-emotional development and channeling youthful energy in constructive ways:
- Movement-based activities for children with developmental disabilities
- Movement-based activities for teens
- Movement- and theater-based activities for building focus, bridging differences, identifying feelings, and opening dialogue
- Drumming-based Beat the Odds program described under "Training" & "Research" on this website.
UCLArts and Healing also offered an interactive family program in Beat the Odds drumming for the Venice Family Clinic, the largest free clinic in the nation.
In 2007 and 2008, UCLArts and Healing offered weekly experiential programs in arts and healing for UCLA Medical Center patients and their families at UCLA Tiverton House Hotel. The purpose of these
programs was to provide opportunities for participants to find meaning in
illness, empowerment, and support. The programs were evaluated and fine-tuned, resulting in a model that can be
exported to other medical settings.
Examples of ongoing and
previous program topics for UCLA
Medical Center
patients and their families:
- Art
Therapy
- Deep
Relaxation
- HealthRHYTHMS
Drumming
- Humor
for Health
- Laughter
Yoga
- Meditation
- Movement
Therapy
- Music, Lyrics & Writing for the Soul
- Music
Therapy
- Poetry
Therapy
- Seated
Centering
- Writing
to Heal
Examples of organizations, institutions,
or other groups that have sought referral services and for which customized referrals were given, instructor placements were made, or actual services were delivered:
- City of Santa Monica Senior Recreation Center – offers affordable programs for enrichment, education, health, active living, social connection, independent living; resources for disabilities; and legal services
- Senior Arts Foundation – a nonprofit organization that connects persons over 50 with creative arts
- UCLA Extension
- Los
Angeles Unified School District Annual Best Practices in Counseling
Resource Fair (2005 - current) - attended by primary intervention
counselors, elementary school counselors, psychiatric social workers, Pupil
Services and Attendance counselors, school psychologists, Extended
Learning Academy counselors, secondary school counselors, drop-out
prevention advisors, Healthy Start staff, health education program staff,
organization facilitators, school nurses and doctors, foster care
liaisons, Student Health and Human Services administrators and site administrators
(including school principals).
- California Caregiver Resource Centers Conference - for family caregivers; organized by the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center at the University of Southern California
- Arts
and Services for the Disabled - a nonprofit organization that offers life-long
learning, community service and career opportunities through the creative
arts for people with disabilities.
- South Bay
National Alliance
for Mental Illness - a local chapter of a nonprofit organization
dedicated to improving the lives of persons with serious mental illness.
- Virginia Avenue
Project - an after-school arts-based program for
underserved youth.
- Melrose Gardens - an
assisted living center for older adults.
- Silvercrest Residence - an
124-unit apartment complex for self-sufficient older adults, operated by
the Salvation Army in Santa
Monica.
- Warner
Brothers International Summit