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WE HELP CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE ENHANCE AND ADVANCE!
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MUSIC |
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Creative Arts for Developing Minds is a 501(c)(3) organization located in Connecticut.
It's mission is: to provide opportunities for creative expression, enhancement of positive self-esteem, and development of a sense of community to foster care and adoptive children, aged two through twelve years of age, using combined music, art and movement activities.
Why the Creative Arts?
•Art is an important and universal fact of human expression.
•The creative arts of music, art and movement focus on communicating experiences that a child does not have the words to express.
•Creative arts allow children the opportunity to grow and develop self-awareness through self-expression.
•The creative arts of music, art and movement focus on communicating experiences that a child does not have the words to express.
•Creative arts allow children the opportunity to grow and develop self-awareness through self-expression.
WHY CREATIVE ARTS FOR DEVELOPING MINDS?
• A holistic approach to working with children in foster care and adoptive children.
• The founder, Nan Arnstein, was a foster child and understands how transformative music, art and movement can be to child in foster care.
• Children in foster care and adoptive children need involvement in activities that are designed to counteract and stimulate brain development.
• The founder, Nan Arnstein, was a foster child and understands how transformative music, art and movement can be to child in foster care.
• Children in foster care and adoptive children need involvement in activities that are designed to counteract and stimulate brain development.