A 1-2 hour long experiential arts offering with themes around youth engagement, as well as self/community care and resiliency for adults that directly serve young people. PDs promote relationship building amongst staff and give participants tools to combat empathy fatigue and burnout through the arts.

Varied support in Community Based Events such as walk-up collaborative art making with professional teaching artists, tabling to showcase the networks offerings during Resource Fairs, providing facilitation/MCs for events, Professional artist performances.

A multi-week long curriculum of healing-informed arts instruction through the lens of a specific arts discipline. While students develop artistic skills, they are also deepening their socio-emotional learning by connecting to their own sense of self, community, and to their own stories.

• Lengths of residency: once or twice per week for 1-2 hours for 8-16 weeks (to be determined by the site, longer sessions also available)

• Structure: A team of 2 Teaching Artists (TAs) will lead youth through workshops that consist of a check in, arts practice/creation, and reflection/sharing. TAs are trained to be responsive, and meet youth where they’re at on a day-to-day basis.