Art from Ashes has partnered with more than 180 schools and organizations to provide creative youth empowerment workshops (see a selection below). If you’d like to partner with us, please contact the Director of Programs here.
- Adams 14 Bridges Program
- Adams City High School
- Adams City Middle School [through the International Learning Center]
- Adams County Housing
- Adams County Migrant Education Program
- ACE Community Challenge Charter School [collaboration with MSCD’s Center for Visual Art and Mighty Kids]
- AIMS Community College
- Alsop Elementary School [through the Bridges Program]
- African American Leadership Institute
- Anythink Library
- Archdiocesan Housing
- Asian Pacific Development Center
- ATD
- Auraria Campus Healthy Moves Program
- Aurora Central High School
- Aurora Community School
- Aurora Youth 4 Success [Rocky Mountain Research & Prevention Institute]
- Aurora Youth Options
- Barnum Recreation Center
- Betty K. Marler :: Jeremiah Project
- Boulder County Juvenile Integrated Treatment Court
- Boulder Justice High School
- Boulder Preparatory Academy
- Bridge Project [The] :: Westwood
- Bridge Project [The] :: South Lincoln
- Bruce Randolph Middle School (through the YMCA’s After School Program)
- CASA Start, a program of Community Reach Center
- Centennial BOCES
- Cherry Creek High School
- Cherry Creek Transitions
- Children’s Hospital
- Chinook High School
- City and County of Denver :: Denver Parks and Recreation
- City of Boulder Youth Opportunites Program
- City of Brighton
- Cleo Wallace Residential Treatment Center
- Cole Arts and Science Academy
- Cole Camp Hero
- Colorado Early Colleges-Aurora
- Colorado Youth At Risk
- Columbine High School
- Community Reach Center
- Community Service Mission
- CRCP
- Cultural Competence Conference
- Denver Area Youth Services PATHS Programs
- Denver Big Picture School
- Denver Children’s Home
- Denver Children’s Hospital
- Denver Green School
- Denver Housing Authority
- Denver Inner City Parish
- Denver Justice High School
- Denver Juvenile Probation
- Denver Online High School
- Denver Public Library :: Central
- Denver Public Library :: Schlessman branch
- Denver Rescue Mission :: The Crossing
- Denver School of Science and Technology High School
- Denver School of Science and Technology Middle School
- University of Denver
- Douglas County Student Support Center
- East High School
- El Grupo Vida
- El Pomar
- Elouise Library
- Endeavor Academy
- Excelsior Youth Center
- Fairview Elementary (through the Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation’s After School Program)
- Family Crisis Center
- Fort Lupton
- Gilliam Youth Services
- Girls Empowerment Conference
- Girls Gangs program at Lakewood Probation Department
- Hampden Academy Day Treatment Center
- Hanson Elementary
- Heart and Hand Center
- Hiawatha Davis Recreation Center
- Hinkley High School/Aurora Teen Pregnancy Prevention Project
- Imago Dei Youth Group
- Kearney Middle School [through the International Learning Center]
- Kepner Middle School
- Jefferson Hills Treatment Hospital
- La Raza Youth Conference
- Lester Arnold High School
- Life Divine
- Life Skills
- Lighthouse Writers Youth Workshop
- L.I.N.K. Adam’s County after-school program
- LnF Residential Treatment Center
- Lutheran Hospital Day Treatment Center
- McMeen Elementary School
- Mental Health Center of Denver :: 2Succeed
- Mayor’s Office for Education and Children
- Metropolitan State University of Denver
- MHCD Recovery Conference
- Mile High Youth Corps
- Monaco Elementary School
- Montbello High School [through the Check Your Head program]
- Montview High School
- Neighborhood Ministries, Phoenix, Arizona
- New America School-Thornton
- North Middle School (through Project PAVE’s after school program)
- Northeast Academy
- PeaceJam
- Phoenix Program at Telluride High School
- Place Bridge Academy
- Project PAVE
- P.S.1
- RAAP (Rape Assistance and Awareness Program)
- Rainbow Alley
- Regis Jesuit High School
- Rise Above
- Rishel Middle School
- Safe City
- Savio House
- Seeking Common Ground
- Sheridan Library
- Skinner Middle School
- Smedley Elementary (through the Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation’s After School Program)
- SMYLI
- Steele Elementary
- Southern Hills Middle School
- Urban Peak at The Spot Urban Youth Center
- Vista PEAK
- Veterans Of Hope
- Voyager Program, The
- VSA :: Very Special Arts
- Warren Village
- Westminster High School
- World Denver
- Young People In Recovery
- Zuma Ranch
Catherine O’Neill Thorn is the founder and executive director of Art from Ashes, an award-winning Colorado nonprofit that provides transformational creative programs for struggling youth. O’Neill Thorn, a member of the National Association of Professional Women, Colorado Prevention Partners Coalition, and the Human Services Network of Colorado, has been conducting poetry and spoken word workshops for youth and adults since 1992 when she developed the Phoenix Rising transformational writing process. She has conducted sessions at juvenile facilities since 1992, including residential and day treatment centers, probation departments, and schools. She established and ran weekly poetry sessions for three years for Columbine students after the fatal shootings in 1999. Participating students gave a public reading attended by international media, and in 2000, O’Neill Publishing produced Screams Aren’t Enough, a compilation of Columbine student poetry, which won the Colorado Book Award.