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Expressing Emotions Through Paint
Lend A Ear is addressing social, emotional, mental, and physical insecurities by impacting communities through art, outreach, and by lending an ear for individuals to speak up and speak out.
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What is the primary issue area that your application will impact?
K-12 STEAM education
In what stage of innovation is this project, program, or initiative?
Expand existing project, program, or initiative (expanding and continuing ongoing, successful work)
What is your understanding of the issue that you are seeking to address?
Poverty, crime, education, extra curricular activities, up-to-date resources, and entrepreneurship are issues that affect people all and dim a vision for their future. The focus of our program allows the target population to create, make connections, build social skills, imagine, implement healthy coping strategies, boost mental health, and develop short and long term goals.
Describe the project, program, or initiative this grant will support to address the issue.
Expressing Emotions Through Paint will offer linkage through our crisis and resource program, offer direct hands-on art activities that educated participants about colors an dhow they affect emotions, and host biweekly empowerment workshops that support young people and families who may be in need of a healthy coping strategy and an outlet to expressing themselves through art and voice.
Describe how Los Angeles County will be different if your work is successful.
Our work will stop a crisis from becoming a catastrophe by bridging the line of communication through art and building healthy social and emotional skills. We will enrich, educate, and empower every individual to believe in themselves, know they are not alone, and to speak up and speak out. Data assessment will demonstrate an increase in self-esteem, future goals, academics, and build relationships. Our efforts will decrease latchkey effects and guide participants towards activities in an effort to reduce crime and increase participants places in society as a productive citizen.
What evidence do you have that this project, program, or initiative is or will be successful, and how will you define and measure success?
The evaluation utilizes different methods of data collection in various ways: interview, survey, observation, record review. Surveys will be written in both English and Spanish to assess participants perception of the program, methods used, effectiveness of tools, staff professionalism, and pre and post program participation. Lastly, observation will be implemented to assess staff conduct and professionalism is used.
Approximately how many people will be impacted by this project, program, or initiative?
Direct Impact: 2,000.0
Indirect Impact: 500.0