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Mrs. Rea from Los Angeles, CA is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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ART to HEAL TRAUMA and SOCIAL EMOTIONAL STRESS.

Help me give my students a way to release social emotional stress through art.

  • $590 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

High school students in South Central Los Angeles need avenues to deal with trauma and social emotional stress. Trauma affects student learning and emotional growth. In just this last week, I heard of four separate murders by gun shot in the area that affected families in our high school. These students are high risk for failing out of school or worse ending in up in jail or dead. Students need a healthy way of dealing with difficult emotions and art is known to help in this. I’d like to get art materials to assist students in healing.

“Evidence suggests that youth exposed to trauma have decreased social competence and increased rates of peer rejection.

Therefore, students who have experienced a traumatic event are at increased risk for academic, social, and emotional problems as a result of these experiences.”

Per a Harvard study, “Studies have shown that expressing themselves through art can help people with depression, anxiety, or cancer, too. And doing so has been linked to improved memory, reasoning, and resilience in healthy older people."

Mrs. Rea Communication and Technology School Rivera Learning Complex Grades 9-12

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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

800 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Blick Studio Drawing Pencils - Set of 12 • Blick Art Materials $10.21 12 $122.52
Caran D''Ache Swisscolor Colored Pencils - Set of 12 • Blick Art Materials $7.00 12 $84.00
Blick Wirebound Sketchbook - 12 x 9, Wire Bound, 80 Sheets • Blick Art Materials $13.69 6 $82.14
Crystal Menagerie Coloring Book • Blick Art Materials $12.76 4 $51.04
Color Therapy: An Anti-Stress Coloring Book • Blick Art Materials $11.99 4 $47.96
Birdtopia Coloring Book • Blick Art Materials $12.79 3 $38.37

Materials cost

$426.03

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $38.98

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$501.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.48

Total project goal

$589.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $589.88

1 Donor

-$589.88

Donations toward project cost

-$501.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.48

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