Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona

Time is ticking away ⌚️ to make a 2024 donation. Help make expressive arts possible for children, teens and families in our community. 🎨 All of your financial support goes towards making our trauma-informed arts programs possible!

121 reasons why you should support Free Arts 🎨 #ArtHealsAZ

Happy Holidays from our staff at Free Arts- we hope your holiday season is filled with joy! Thank you so much for your unwavering support of the children, teens, and families we serve. Our Mission would be impossible without generous support from our volunteer mentors, community partners, professional teaching artists, and our amazing donors. #ArtHealsAZ

We recently asked a few of our volunteer mentors "why is it important to support Free Arts?" In their own words, here is why supporting Free Arts and our trauma-informed arts programs is essential to children, teens and families we serve. 🎨 💜 You can support Free Arts with a QFCO-elligible donation today: https://freeartsaz.org/

Our Canvas of the Heart podcast is back! Join Matt and Erina as they discuss the Free Arts Family Program, regulation, and co-regulation. Erina gives a brief overview of the history of the Family Program and how it has grown in the past three years and what a Family Empowerment Night looks like. We wanted to share this episode during the holiday season because it can often be a deregulating time for a lot of individuals. Matt and Erina share some amazing art-based examples about how to both regulate and co-regulate - perhaps you will learn some techniques you can try during the next few weeks. https://lnkd.in/gSyKAhRg

We are blown away by the support of our community this week – You helped us raise $36,820 on Giving Tuesday – combined with the match from our Board of Directors that totals a whopping $66,820 🎉 From the bottom of our hearts, thank you! 💜 #ArtHealsAZ #Youdidthis #SupportingSocialImpact 🎨

We currently have 10 Free Arts Days scheduled for December and January! Free Arts Days allow youth in our partner service agencies to practice self-expression with the support of volunteer mentors during one-day programs hosted in partnership with local arts and culture organizations. Supporting this program can help us purchase specialized supplies such as frames and ornaments which our participants lovingly make art with and will share with their friends and caregivers this holiday season. You can donate to support creativity here: https://lnkd.in/gHeEDkdt

This Giving Tuesday Free Arts is excited to announce that we have secured a $30,000 match courtesy of our Board of Directors! This means that when you give, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar. 🎉 Our fundraising goal for the day is to hit our match total of $30,000 - every dollar counts when it comes to providing safety for young people in foster care. Our programs help participants feel safe, express themselves, build skills, develop self-efficacy, and to ultimately build resilience. 💚 Join thousands of individuals by supporting causes near and dear to your heart, such as Free Arts! Your support funds our resilience-building arts programming as well as ensuring that children, teens, and families throughout the state make meaningful connections with our caring volunteer mentors. 🎭 Thank you, truly from the bottom of our hearts, you help make everything we do with the population we serve possible. You can make your QFCO Elligible donation here: https://lnkd.in/gQhahq4i

Giving Tuesday is next week! 📅 On December 3rd Join thousands of individuals by supporting causes near and dear to your heart, such as Free Arts 🎨 Your donations fund our resilience-building arts programming as well as ensuring that children, teens, and families make meaningful connections with our caring volunteer mentors. You can make your QFCO Elligible donation here: https://lnkd.in/gxMCJGgt #givingtuesday #arthealsaz

Are you ready to dig into a new season of Canvas of the Heart? Season four kicks off with Matt and Beth discussing a key concept we teach our mentors during our volunteer training, treasure hunting. They explain what it means, offer some examples of what it looks like, and give listeners tools to try it out themselves. Treasure hunting boils down to the truth that any young person has the potential to be successful. Often all that is needed for that potential to be realized is recognition and encouragement from a safe individual. It is a skill anyone can use at home with their friends, family, and coworkers too! You can check out the podcast here: https://lnkd.in/gSyKAhRg