Today’s students trust their peers. So we partnered with the Philadelphia area’s Healthy NewsWorks, an organization founded more than a decade ago by a second grade teacher and former Philadelphia Inquirer health reporter Marian Uhlman. Healthy NewsWorks partners with elementary and middle schools to teach children health literacy while also developing their leadership, critical thinking and communications skills through journalism.
In this issue of Art Therapy Today, Raquel Chapin Stephenson, Ph.D., ATR-BC, LCAT, describes how art therapy can help reduce social isolation and loneliness in people with dementia by providing a new pathway for communication. Additionally, the AATA releases new details about how to support new professional art therapists during its #GivingTuesday campaign. Sara Windrem, the AATA Featured Member, discusses who inspired her career in art therapy and the methods she uses in her work with Veterans.
Dozens of major companies and investors from across the United States will be joining the nonprofit sustainability group Ceres at the upcoming climate negotiations in Paris in support of a strong global climate deal that will accelerate the shift to a low-carbon, clean energy economy. Details on key #COP21 events are provided.