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  • Yorkshire Elementary School
  • Manassas, VA
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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In 2018, the summer art bag program was created at our school after providing grief counseling to a student and learning she had no art supplies at home. She wanted to finish decorating a memory box in honor of her friend who had passed away. I learned she only had a few pens at home. This is the "why" to the development of the program. Once learning students did not have access to social emotional learning and art supplies over the summer, I developed the therapeutic summer art bag program which provides students the opportunity to use art based interventions to develop feeling identification and calming coping skills. An art bag includes therapeutic worksheets, crayons, drawing pads, markers, a journal, construction paper, and many other supplies. This year I am also developing a prerecorded video in English and Spanish for students and their parents that will provide instruction on how to use the art based interventions to emotionally support their children this summer. These strategies allow students to express and understand their emotions and practice coping strategies. In addition, utilizing art based interventions reaches students of diverse backgrounds and allows them to convey what is often unspeakable. Growing a student's overall healthy well being including mental health is the focus of the program.

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In 2018, the summer art bag program was created at our school after providing grief counseling to a student and learning she had no art supplies at home. She wanted to finish decorating a memory box in honor of her friend who had passed away. I learned she only had a few pens at home. This is the "why" to the development of the program. Once learning students did not have access to social emotional learning and art supplies over the summer, I developed the therapeutic summer art bag program which provides students the opportunity to use art based interventions to develop feeling identification and calming coping skills. An art bag includes therapeutic worksheets, crayons, drawing pads, markers, a journal, construction paper, and many other supplies. This year I am also developing a prerecorded video in English and Spanish for students and their parents that will provide instruction on how to use the art based interventions to emotionally support their children this summer. These strategies allow students to express and understand their emotions and practice coping strategies. In addition, utilizing art based interventions reaches students of diverse backgrounds and allows them to convey what is often unspeakable. Growing a student's overall healthy well being including mental health is the focus of the program.

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