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Artistic
Rehabilitative
Therapeutic
Our Mission
Our mission is to pair art creation with coping skill education in a supportive and collective space in order to tackle issues regarding recidivism and idleness.
This program hopes to address inmate individual short-term and long-term needs in order to create positive future outcomes. The inmates are provided creative outlets and art as a healing tool to improve overall mental health and prevent idleness.
This program aims to foster creativity and empower a critical consciousness within a supportive community.
*Program facilitators are not trained therapists, nor does this program provide therapy. We simply use art in a therapeutic manner.
The Artistic Rehabilitative Therapeutic* (ART) Initiative is a UC Santa Cruz student-run organization that conducts weekly therapeutic art projects with the women in the Santa Cruz County Jails.
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