2023-2024 Community Assist Partners
Grab the confetti cannons! Announcing: Art Feeds 2023-2024 Community Assist Partners!
What is Community Assist? Our Community Assist Program is made for schools and community organizations serving children in need around the world. Community Assist offers training, Art Feeds Memberships (that’s access to over 400+ lessons and projects!), and art supplies free of cost to further each Partner’s impact. Each year, Art Feeds Community Assist Program supports ~25,000 children in partnership with organizations and schools doing meaningful work that need an extra hand.
Let’s get started introducing our Partners for this upcoming school year!
Canopy NWA is a refugee resettlement organization. Students at Canopy are brave, resilient, and inspiring. Despite the formidable challenges they face, students are joyful, funny, caring and smart. Their eyes twinkle with a thirst for knowledge and love.
The refugees Canopy serves are individuals who have fled their countries because of dangerous situations such as war, persecution, or related threats because of their race, religion, political opinion, nationality, or social group.
As a result, the children Canopy works with may develop chronic medical and/or behavioral health conditions. As the children navigate and attempt to overcome the trauma and culture shock associated with coming to a new country. Art Feeds is proud to partner with their mission and provide our training, curriculum, and expertise to create a brave space for these brave artists to process big feelings.
The vision of the Carthage R-9 School District is to provide comprehensive educational experiences that will empower all students to become lifelong learners and productive, informed, responsible citizens who are able to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing global society. Carthage R-9 has been a partner in Art Feeds Community Assist Programs since 2015 and we are proud to continue our work together.
Charlotte Family Housing has a mission to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve life-long self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
They create safe spaces for families experiencing homelessness to be able to stay together and not be separated, to catch their breath and gain the tools needed to succeed independently. In the process, Charlotte Family Housing provides children resources to deal with trauma, pain and much upheaval. Art Feeds is proud to provide resources to amplify this programming and help the children they serve through process based art and trauma informed care.
Monitor Elementary has a vision that ALL students will:
Feel safe, loved, and important
Apply the necessary skills and knowledge to change the world
Demonstrate kindness, integrity, innovation, and problem solving
Be positive and productive individuals
The mission at Monitor Elementary School is to ensure high levels of academic and social emotional learning for all. This aligns with Art Feeds missions and values and we are excited to work alongside Monitor Elementary providing curriculum rooted in SEL and Art Feeds Art Packs for every student.
Mountainburg Public School District is committed to providing students with exceptional educational opportunities while equipping them for a successful future. With a strong emphasis on community involvement, Mountainburg Schools fosters a sense of civic responsibility among students, enabling them to witness firsthand the positive impact they can have before embarking on their college or vocational journeys. Art Feeds is proud to work alongside Mountainburg in this mission.
The Rapha Hope and Healing Center provides trauma-focused therapy for child and teen survivors of violence, sexual abuse, and trafficking, in order to promote lifelong hope and healing. Art Feeds has proudly partnered with Rapha Hope & Healing since 2021, coming alongside their trauma-focused therapy with expressive arts programming to aid in the healing process.
Rapha International provides aftercare for survivors of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and abuse in Cambodia + Thailand. Art Feeds has partnered with the Care Centers in Cambodia and Thailand since 2015, resourcing the counselors, advocates, and house mothers with training, lessons, projects and supplies to create brave spaces for the survivors to tell their story. Art Feeds is honored to continue alongside this important work.
Studio Del Creador is a beacon of creativity and healing for the community of Tecate, Mexico. By providing free art and music classes to the community, their mission offers a nurturing environment where individuals can explore their artistic talents and experience the therapeutic power of creative expression.
At Studio Del Creador, the belief in the transformative nature of art and music is at the core of their mission. By removing financial barriers and offering these classes free of charge, they ensure that anyone in the community can access the benefits of artistic exploration. Art Feeds proudly enhances their children’s ministry with our trauma informed lessons that are translated into Spanish. Together Studio del Creador and Art Feeds aid in expression and discovery through engaging in various artistic practices. Through this, individuals of the community can discover new avenues of self-expression, boost their self-confidence, and tap into their innate creativity.
The studio offers a safe haven for individuals to explore their artistic abilities, foster emotional well-being, and forge meaningful connections with others in the community. Art Feeds has proudly partnered with Studio Del Creador since 2020.
Springdale Elementary Schools lead in educational excellence and ensures a safe and inclusive environment to empower a community of learners. Springdale’s vision is to provide personalized, innovative, and culturally diverse learning opportunities to launch each student to a successful life pursuit. Art Feeds has partnered with Springdale Elementary Schools since 2015, partnering with their innovative district and wildly creative students to create, express, and grow social emotional skills.
Touch a Life in Ghana has mission is to rescue child trafficking survivors, renew them through holistic healing, and restore their dignity through empowering them to become agents of change in their communities.
Touch A Life is committed to providing holistic, customized child care for the children in their programs, complete with regular medical and mental health assessments, art healing programming, and educational and vocational empowerment. By equipping them with individualized care plans, high quality academic opportunities, and critical life skills, these children will grow into healthy, community-changing adults, fulfilling our mission to rescue, renew, and restore.
Art Feeds is proud to be part of the individualized healing process with the use of our curriculum, supplies, and Art Feeds Method in Connor’s Creative Art Center on site at the Care Center in Ghana.
The Waypoint Academy Program is an alternative school environment, which provides effective programming for students with emotional and/or behavioral disorders. They provide essential programs that develop appropriate and strong support for students so that they can achieve success developing both academic and social skills, while aiding them to experience a more normalized educational process. The aim of the Waypoint Academy is to increase teaching and learning time and reduce the time students spend on non-productive behaviors. Art Feeds curriculum will be used as a resource to redirect and grow positive behavior and social emotional skills in students, we are proud to walk alongside their work.
Wanna play a role in impacting thousands of children for the 2023-2024 school year?! Donate here. Interested in learning more about Community Assist? Check that out here, or apply to be a partner next school year here.
