Being an art therapist for 35 years, I read the following quote below. from your SOS?World Press meeting minutes, with great interest.

I am training an art therapists in your state, in our non-residential graduate art therapy training program. Since North Carolina is a sate where I have considered retiring in, I am very interested in your work. From 35 years of clinical work and art therapy education, and 7 years of work with adolescents around New Orleans, I wonder if I can share some of my work with you. Hope fully it would support your efforts….. and perhaps those reported from >>. I have worked with youth who had come to the attention of the juvenile justice system and find that many of them are arts oriented learners, when the arts are being removed from the schools. Then, their way of learning is not offered in school systems so they become “lost, mystery children” and young adults in the juvenile justice system. I have written a great deal of this which I am now researching. Perhaps, my work could be helpful to your region?

Let me know if I can help?

Congratulations on the inclusiveness of your health initiatives: I teach that “creativity is the highest form of functioning” supporting anyone’s interest for taking responsibility for their health, by tapping into the natural high of creativity dynamics………

I was inspired by reading your posting….. Thanks.

Roberta Shoemaker-Beal, MFA, ATR, PhD (honorary)

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