Through community based collaborations, BuildaBridge’s Discovery program offers after-school and evening arts-integrated educational programs to women, children and youth living in emergency homeless shelters and transitional homes, as well as those attending school and recreational center after school programs. Using the child-centered, hope-infused, trauma-informed BuildaBridge Classroom Model℠, Discovery classes aim to assist students in leading more hopeful, healed, and resilient lives through the discovery of personal and communal strengths, talents, and abilities and the development of academic, artistic, character and social skills.
For refugee children, art-making experiences within the BuildaBridge Classroom model have helped them identify adjustment strategies, build on their personal strengths and build resiliency in a new culture. S is a 10-year old Bhutanese refugee girl who has been attending BuildaBridge groups since they started in August 2011 with almost near perfect attendance. In the almost three years of her attending groups, through art-making, S has made significant progress in all of the BuildaBridge outcome areas (social, character development, artistic and academic). As an illustration of the development of her social skills, S has improved relations with her younger brother with whom she is often competitive. This has been an ongoing growth area the therapists have been addressing. During the past two years, S has physically participated less in the movement experiences when other girls are not in attendance. During this third year of programming and as an illustration of her increased character...
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