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Our mission: Transforming children’s trauma to resilience through the arts. Free Arts serves children living in homeless/domestic violence shelters, foster care group homes, and residential treatment centers. Many of these children have been removed from their parents/families and have been traumatized due to physical and/or sexual abuse, neglect or other dangerous conditions. Many experience conflicting feelings, including anger, fear, shame, isolation and sadness. Without appropriate intervention, these same children, as they become adults, are likely to see their lives thwarted by drugs, crime and other destructive behaviors as a result of their childhood trauma.
Free Arts is committed to interrupting the cycle of pain and violence in these children's lives and through the arts, provide a path to a healthier life as engaged members of their communities. Free Arts is the only nonprofit in Maricopa County that delivers creative and therapeutic arts programs, at no charge, to children in out-of-home care.
