[I am] excited to help my population grow, heal, and realize all the good things they can do in life through expressive arts. Many of the people in my population don't have the freedoms that PeaceLove workshops can give them and I am very excited to give them that freedom of expression.
Ali Clements
JusticePoint
Minnesota
I felt thrilled because it went so well, and the patients seemed to love it.
Allison Guiliano
Eleanor Slater Hospital
Rhode Island
I'm excited to be a CREATOR because I know how much this process and the workshops can benefit others!
Amanda Malone
Howard County Public School System
Maryland
The feedback we received was incredible. We had tears of joy, happy dances, huge smiles and lots of air kisses and hugs.
Amara Riccio
Riccio Pick Me Ups
New Jersey
I am excited to bring something new and fresh to my participants. I am excited to offer new opportunities for participants to grow personally.
Amber Havens
North Little Rock Parks & Recreation
Arkansas
I was impressed with the reactions from each of the kids... from increased focus, to big smiles, expression of feelings during the workshop.
Amy Niezrecki
Nashua School District
New Hampshire
Being able to be a part of the moment when a patient is able to freely create and express how they feel through their artwork is beyond rewarding. If it were up to me, I would have nothing but PeaceLove workshops going from 9-3 every day for every patient.
Andrea Durant-Deming
Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation
Texas
Everyone needs to take care of their mental health. You do not need to be diagnosed with something in order to get something out of [this program].
Andrea Ericson
Wareham Middle School
Massachusetts
I'm excited to bring a new form of expression towards a demographic that doesn't always have access.
Andrew Wolff
Granite State Children's Alliance
New Hampshire
The CREATORS Program will help me connect with some of our children who have experienced trauma and give them a way to express their feelings.
Angie Cain
Winchester Public Schools
Virginia
"I want to share what I have been given. I know I will make mistakes, but for the first time in my career I don’t fear not being perfect... I can’t wait to see the women’s faces when they experience these workshops, to watch them create and experience and express themselves in a way they most likely haven’t before."
Annette Dominguez
CompDrug
Ohio
I am looking forward to creating a space to express with our youth. I hope this tool can lead to discovery, connections, and conversation.
Anthony LaFauci
Roxbury Youthworks, Inc.
Massachusetts
I'm excited to bring something new that people haven't seen before. I know this program can bring a lot of positivity to their lives.
Ashley Mazejko
Sojourner House
Rhode Island
"I've always thought of PeaceLove as a way for people to express their feelings and I think that expressing yourself is critical for people's mental health."
Ashley Perry
Project Weber/RENEW
Rhode Island
Mental health isn't just about having a mental health disorder, but also how one improves or works on their mental wellness.
Ashley Quan
Boys and Girls Club Boston
Massachusetts
I am so excited to have a whole new set of skills that can help our children, adolescents and their families connect and find peace of mind!
Ashley Rogers
Family and Children's Aid
Connecticut
The CREATORS Program allows me to connect with participants in a different way, giving kids the time to immerse themselves in a creative experience and let them be who they are.
Becca Taylor
New Hampshire Hospital
New Hampshire
Expressive arts is a wonderful way to give children in my hospital a voice and an outlet for their feelings.
Belinda Thayn
Castleview Hospital
Utah
I am excited to [use the CREATORS Program to] bring more ways of communication to my population.
Bethany Diedrich
Indiana
I am looking forward to helping those in the community I work with better understand themselves and their emotions through expressive arts. I hope for expressive arts to be their voice and their outlet.
Bethany Sinn
Bournedale Elementary School
Massachusetts
Beverly Perez
Family Service RI
Rhode Island
I look forward to implementing how open people can be with each other, being open and honest and feeling comfortable with that. I want them to be able to express themselves, even if it's not with words.
Brianna Aquino
The Met School
Rhode Island
I'm excited to see others grow through expressive arts and for the potential to reach those I may not have been able to reach without the tools I've learned through the [training].
Brittany Hook
Recreational Therapist
Indiana
I realized that doing these workshops have opened my eyes to new ideas both of myself and how I can provide workshops to my population.
Carla Beattie
Bradley Hospital
Rhode Island
[As a CREATOR, I am most excited about] helping my patients express themselves.
Carla De Lemos
Kaiser Permanente
California
I think the curriculum is great and will be really helpful to my patients, and the community.
Ceceley Chambers
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Massachusetts
Chelsea Rudomen
Blue Sky Abilities, Inc.
Texas
I am looking forward to adding six new expressive arts activities to my repetoire and seeing my patients' reaction. I'm also excited for the opportunity to represent PeaceLove in my organization. I am the first from my hospital to train at PeaceLove and I hope to inspire others to train as well.
Chrissy Brault
Hartford Hospital
Connecticut
My greatest success [as a CREATOR] is being able to inspire the students I work with to try some new ways of working through their problems.
Christina Getz
Caron Treatment Centers
Pennsylvania
I believe that there are all kinds of support and different ways to approach mental health, and to have [this new tool] gives me hope.
Christine Forsyth
Family Service RI
Rhode Island
I'm excited to be a CREATOR [to support] my students' mental wellness through creative arts.
Cole Robinson
The Met School
Rhode Island
With PeaceLove, clients will have access to expressive arts to help heal.
Colleen Hayes-Costello
Family Service of RI
Rhode Island
Courtney McGuire
Family Service of RI
Rhode Island
I have had the privilege of watching participants transform through participation. Whether participants were engaging in a single workshop or my weekly series through the clinic, I have watched these workshops really deliver 1-2 hours of true peace of mind.
Dana Hillman
Family and Children's Aid
Connecticut
"I am excited to be a CREATOR because it will allow me to give my patients opportunities to express themselves and recognize different emotions, things they struggle to do."
Danielle Mellor
New Hampshire Department of Corrections
New Hampshire
I've had some idea as to how art/creative expression can be useful, but this experience has really shifted my thinking.
Darren Ellison
Family and Children's Aid
Connecticut
I was blown away by some really profound insights from some patients who had struggled in other groups.
David Leicht
Butler Hospital
Rhode Island
Running these PeaceLove groups where individuals can express their feelings and emotions in such a safe and creative way while experiencing healing and self-exploration is such a powerful and beautiful process and is the reason I feel honored and blessed to now be a PeaceLove CREATOR.
Diane Dioguardi
Education Without Walls
Connecticut
PeaceLove is creative, accessible, and non-intimidating.
Ellice Park
Counseling Care Circle
Ohio
Emily Gardner
WellBridge Healthcare
Texas
I am looking forward to providing clients with an opportunity to experience mental health awareness with creativity and art.
Erin Albanese
Family Service RI
Rhode Island
I have always used art to find healing and deal with mental health challenges and I have always been an advocate for reducing stigma around mental illnesses and now I feel as though I can channel these passions in a meaningful productive way.
Erin Ortega
Manchester Public School
Connecticut
I'm excited to be a CREATOR to share alternative methods to process emotions.
Frankie Stovall
Methodist Behavioral Hospital
Arkansas
The CREATORS Program will give my population the chance to express themselves and gain some insight into the areas they are hoping to work on.
Gayle Kanary
Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation
Ohio
Gaylisa Carr
ALHH Inc
Ohio
These workshops have been a wonderful complement to the services I provide for my clients and the care that they receive at Ontario Shores.
Grace Williamson
Ontario Shores
Ontario, Canada
I enjoyed the experience so much that I can’t wait to give my clients an opportunity to experience what I did! I think that expressive arts will be very soothing for my clients.
Haley Gerstein
Comprehensive Community Action Program
Rhode Island
I have found being a CREATOR to be a huge teaching tool for me! I see the joy in the kids letting them be free to do what they want.
Janice Sanchez
Boys and Girls Club of East Providence
Rhode Island
I'm looking forward to starting to help others work through their personal challenges in a creative and 'non traditional' way.
Jessica Raymond
Family & Children's Aid
Connecticut
I have discovered an inherent creativity within myself and I am so grateful for that. I plan to carve out creative time for myself knowing this will bring me peace and provide a healthy and meaningful outlet for my own thoughts and emotions.
Jessica Young
Family & Children's Aid
Connecticut
Johanna Shriver-Halligan
TaraVista Behavioral Health Center
New Hampshire
I am looking forward to providing new tools for expression and a way to build a stronger community where students can talk about mental health.
Jose Rosario
Rhode Island College
Rhode Island
[With the CREATORS Program], I hope to draw out more creative potential [in my participants] and build their confidence.
Julianne Johnson
Mystic River Residential Care
Connecticut
PeaceLove allows me to add so much more to the people's lives that I work with every day.
Julie Murray
Ontario Shores
Ontario, Canada
I am constantly reminded, especially when doing a workshop, just how fortunate I am to work with the population I work with.
Kara Ronayne
Slater Middle School
Rhode Island
I am most looking forward [to implementing the CREATORS Program] to help kids explore themselves openly and not look to the product of something as defining of themselves or their abilities.
Kate St. Onge
Family & Children's Aid
Connecticut
I'm excited for this program to help bring creativity to my therapy, and encouraging others to use art more.
Katelin Trinidad
Northeast Health Services
Massachusetts
I am so excited to have a new tool in my toolbox in order to help others.
Katie Haidemenos
La Salle Academy
Rhode Island
Katina Hilliard
Whitaker Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility
North Carolina
I'm most looking forward to providing a positive, meaningful experience to youth who are suffering from trauma and mental health concerns.
Kellie Sheridan Gauvin
Town of Manchester Youth Service Bureau
Connecticut
I can't wait to help people feel a little bit better about their lives and their mental health. I can't wait to see some of the smiles, and to connect better with the population I serve, where they can express themselves without having to verbalize all of their emotions.
Kelly Hartley
Reliance Health Inc.
Connecticut
I’m excited to see how my students respond to these workshops and the art they create!
Kristine Arons
Manchester Middle Academy
Connecticut
I am excited to be able to share what I have learned with my community. I am happy to be able to take what I have learned in training and apply to my personal/professional life. I love that I am able to use expressive arts as a way to help my patients deal with their mental health.
Krystle Bell
Addiction Recovery Institute
Rhode Island
The kids [at Bradley Hospital] often express how much they enjoy PeaceLove.
Kyri Allison
Rhode Island
I am genuinely so thankful and grateful to be apart of this family. I cannot wait to help spread PeaceLove and see the impact that it makes on our patients, and ultimately, how mental health is treated.
Landy Blackmore
Perimeter Healthcare
Texas
I am excited to give kids and families another way to connect with one another and their emotional experience.
Laura Buss
Family Service RI
Rhode Island
I feel as though I have 6 great new activities that are going to allow me to have those 'break through' moments with each patient.
Lea Thompson
Child Life Specialist
Washington
Leah Kortman
Parent Support Network
Rhode Island
These workshops will bring empathy, compassion and togetherness to the employees and help foster a positive environment. I truly believe these programs will make a difference in the culture.
Leigh Silveira
ALEX AND ANI
Rhode Island
Linda Aguiar
Newport Hospital
Rhode Island
Lindy Walsh
Nashua High School South
New Hampshire
"[I'm excited] to spread PeaceLove and to help my clients."
Lisa Hoffman
Family & Children's Aid
Connecticut
[CREATORS] has helped me to better understand [my participants]… seeing their fears, hearing their struggles, and having them share their dreams.
Lisa Pease
Reach for the Stars Child Development Center
New Hampshire
[As a CREATOR], I hope that [my population] will gain greater emotional resilience, learn new modalities of coping, and begin to express and work through their own individual life traumas.
Lori Janik
Arizona Burn Foundation
Arizona
I really love [giving] the kids a tool to help them independently manage those [difficult] times on their own.
Lynn Michaelson
Family & Children's Aid
Connecticut
Lynn Tidgwell
RADical Hope
Connecticut
I look forward to implementing this program with my clients, because I am excited to see what will come up instead of utilizing talk therapy.
Madison Dorman
The Center for Youth and Families
Arkansas
I'm excited to give others who suffer from mental illness a way to express themselves in a positive way, where they can be comfortable to share or not share.
Marcela Lee
Natchaug Hospital Joshua Center
Connecticut
Mainly, I have found that being creative has given me an outlet in my own life. PeaceLove gives me a way to pass this on to my students in a way I would never be able to do on my own. I am most grateful for this opportunity.
Maria DiNobile
Central Falls High School
Rhode Island
I'm excited to bring creativity and expression into my school. Creative art is a great outlet and with the guidance of each workshop I know many students are going to benefit from them and get to know themselves a little better.
Marieli Hernandez
The Met School
Rhode Island
[Being a CREATOR] has opened me up to seeing the individuals I work with in a different light.
Marlena Davis
Project Friends
Rhode Island
I know this program will reach some students that we are not reaching in other ways, and that it will reach all students in some way.
Mary Lil Moses
New Horizon's Regional Education Center
Virginia
Maureen Patterson
Ontario Shores
Ontario, Canada
Megan Frisco
Burke Rehabilitation Hospital
New York
[I'm excited to give] kids a way to express their feelings, a place where kids can be creative and connect with each other outside of their classrooms.
Megan Nason
Boston Public Schools
Massachusetts
I am so excited [for the CREATORS Program] to bring a voice to the foster care community in a unique way!
Mindy Solomon
Family & Children's Aid
Connecticut
[This CREATORS Program is] so needed for my population.
Molly Perham
New Hampshire Hospital
New Hampshire
I'm excited to be a CREATOR [to help] my population create peace of mind.
Monika Larson
Family Service RI
Rhode Island
My population is very creative in general and I am pleasantly surprised at their ability to articulate when given the chance to express themselves.
Nancy Lyon
Compass School
Rhode Island
Nancy Styron
The Children's Room
Massachusetts
Nicole Millick
Family Service of RI
Rhode Island
Olivia Rauschenbach
Indiana University Health Arnett Hospital
Indiana
There is a culture shift underway around the value of mindfulness, and this is the perfect time to bring expressive arts workshops to the young children I teach, as well as their classroom teachers.
Pam Atanasoff
Musical Journeys
Massachusetts
I am meant to be a part of this work... it is truly an extension of who I am and what my heart believes.
Pam McGrath
Amherst Middle School
New Hampshire
I am looking forward to the freedom that people can experience if they embrace [the CREATORS Program].
Patrice Palmer
Homeland Security & Justice Programs
Ohio
It's fun watching people take chances and get a little messy!
Paula Brinkman
SPARK After School Program
Connecticut
"I strongly believe that by offering these workshops it will allow for all members of the community to be able to talk more freely about mental health issues impacting themselves or others."
Peggy O’Neil
Wheeler School
Rhode Island
I'm so excited to be able to be a part of this... to help get rid of all the stigma around [mental health]!
Rafaela Moraes
Cape Coral Charter School
Florida
Rico Marshall
R.I.S.E.
Ohio
I'm most looking forward to the responses of my population and to be a key to help them find peace of mind in their projects.
Rose Gray
Portsmouth Regional Hospital
New Hampshire
Samantha Marrocchio
Franciscan Children's
Massachusetts
[I am most excited] to see the positive impact [of the CREATORS Program] and to build relationships.
Sandra Nolan
Rhode Island
"I cannot wait to give others a method/vehicle/mode to express themselves... These workshops provide such support and utilize so many different methods that everyone will be able to take away something meaningful at some point."
Sara Jane Harris
The National Center for Children and Families
Maryland
Sarah Cahill
KIDS NEED MoRE
New York
[I hope the CREATORS Program will help] them understand themselves more without the use of stigma.
Stephanie Lanzi
Eleanor Slater Hospital
Rhode Island
Stephanie Pezzone
Adoption Rhode Island
Rhode Island
The individuals that I serve all have beautiful voices and strong stories.
Sunnie Ennis
Help Of Southern Nevada
Nevada
I have found that using creative arts helps me to deal more effectively with challenges I encounter in my work.
Tammy Lynn Hayes
Kaiser Permanente
California
Some participants that I know struggle with self-expression were able to express themselves with ease.
Taylor Hooker
Veteran's Affairs
Minnesota
[I'm excited to use the CREATORS Program] to help people cope with their illness or feelings through art as a modality.
Traci Aoki-Tan
Kaiser Permanente
California
Tracy Jones
C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center
Florida
Travis Moore
Rockwall Juvenile Services
Texas
I am excited to be a CREATOR so that I can share expressive arts with populations that would not normally have access to a program like PeaceLove!
Tresalyn Butler
Franklin County Sheriff's Office
Ohio
This is one of the best programs that I have been involved with in terms of impact on my participants.
Valerie Carter
Recreational Therapist
Massachusetts
I am excited to show [my participants] another way to heal.
Vanessa Cubellis
Family Service RI
Rhode Island
I am excited to bring a little bit of peace to any individual who is struggling.
Victoria Palmisano
CODAC Behavioral Healthcare
Rhode Island