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DESCRIPTION CURRENT WORKSHOPS UPCOMING WORKSHOPS COLLABORATORS PRESENTATIONS TRAINING
YOUTH WORKSHOP FORMATS
A typical workshop session is a series of 8 to 20 weekly or bi-weekly 2-hour workshops for up to 20 young people, although workshops can be tailored to meet the budgetary and population needs of any organization. Each workshop, of any length, includes facilitators and co-facilitators who spend two hours in addition to workshop time in preparation and tailored curriculum development, and in typing up youth poems generated during the workshop. The investment also includes a guest artist/poet honorarium; all materials, including journals, writing instruments, collage and other art supplies; and poet pins for each participant. Supplementary fees from funding sources also can provide healthy snacks, bottled water, and a chapbook of compiled poetry.

Please call Marie Verrett, Director of Operations, for details :: 303.837.1550 or email her at marie@artfromashes.org

CURRENT WORKSHOPS
The Spot Urban Youth Center
Denver Public Library
Denver Rescue Mission
Douglas County Student Support Center
Mile High Youth Corp
Family Crisis Center

Urban Peak THE SPOT URBAN YOUTH DROPIN CENTER
Art from Ashes is now in its sixth year of partnership with Urban Peak to provide the Phoenix Rising poetry workshops at The Spot [map]. The 2009/2010 weekly workshops are funded by a Colorado Council on the Arts YouthReach grant. Workshops run every Tuesday night from 6 to 8 pm. Please stay tuned for upcoming performances featuring the youth at The Spot, login to our newsletter (on the lower left side of this page) to stay apprised of youth events and presentations, or click here to support this specific program or any of our other programs (please specify when asked how you would like your support invested). To send an email thank you note to Colorado Council on the Arts for funding our programs, click here.
Click below to view our 4-minute video featuring the youth at The Spot.
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DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY
Art from Ashes has been contracted to provide bi-monthly Phoenix Rising transformational poetry workshops at Denver Public Library. Please link to the DPL Fresh City Life events calendar for future dates and to sign up (classes are filling within a few hours of posting, so get there early!) Central Library, Level 1 Fresh City Lounge

DENVER RESCUE MISSION :: The Crossing
A grant from the Tony Grampsas Youth Services fund is supporting our work at Denver Rescue Mission's family housing center The Crossing. The Phoenix Rising poetry program is facilitating weekly therapeutic workshops through February 2010. Please stay tuned for upcoming performances featuring the youth at Denver Rescue Mission, login to our newsletter (on the lower left side of this page) to stay apprised of youth events and presentations, or click here to support this specific program or any of our other programs (you may specify how you would like your support invested). To send an email thank you note to TGYS for funding our programs, click here.

MILE HIGH YOUTH CORPS
MHYC has renewed its contract and Art from Ashes is providing 10 weekly Phoenix Rising therapeutic poetry workshops during the months of December 2009, and January/February 2010 due to support from the Tony Grampsas Youth Services fund. To support this effort, please click here and note how you would like your funding invested. To send an email thank you to TGYS for funding this program, click here.

COLLABORATORS
Art from Ashes facilitators are in partnership with or have collaborated with the following organizations to provide therapeutic poetry workshops for the youth in their care:

To make a donation that will support an 8-week session for up to 20 youth, please download sponsorship information.

If you are interested in volunteering or participating as a guest artist/poet, please contact us via email or by phone: 303.837.1550. click here to view previous guests at the AfA youth workshops.

Link to our page for ADULT WORKSHOP if you would like to join a therapeutic poetry writing workshop for those over the age of 24. Adult workshops support our programs for youth.

PRESENTATIONS
In the past, Art from Ashes has been invited to present on the effectiveness of poetry therapy with marginalized youth at

TRAINING
Art from Ashes provides local, national and international training courses for caregivers who work with youth. Please contact us via phone :: 303.837.1550 or email for details.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Media attention has been significant. The work has been featured in numerous publications, including the Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post, the Boulder Daily Camera, Urban Spectrum, The Metropolitan, the Conifer Connection and the Colorado Springs Gazette. The program also has received a "Best of Westword" award for Best Use of Poetry (1999) and Best Therapeutic Poetry Organization (2007). Catherine O'Neill Thorn has had several articles on poetry therapy published in magazines and newspapers, both in print and online.

In 1999, the Columbine program received the Colorado Book Award for the publication of survivor poems, Screams Aren't Enough (O'Neill Publishing, 1998). The reading was featured on KWGN-Channel 2 and KUSA 9 News, as well as covered in several national publications.

Over the next three years, AfA will focus on providing poetry therapy sessions in youth agencies throughout Colorado before introducing the program nationally. In addition to providing poetry therapy workshops, AfA will develop the program to introduce six other complementary therapies: visual arts therapy, music therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, massage therapy and somatic therapy.

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