Creative Arts Wellness Programs for Homeless Communities

Hello! My name is Jenni Alpert (birth name Cami) and I am managing this GoFundMe to raise money for our Non Profit Organization, Fine Arts Revolution: www.FineArtsRevolution.org (registered 501c3) which brings creative arts and music wellness programs and services to adults and youth experiencing homelessness and to those in transition in Los Angeles County. We service shelters, centers, tiny homes, food banks, family centers, foster youth homes, and open spaces with programs, workshops, and support services with the mission to craft safe spaces through creative concepts such as music and craft during meal and wait times with both experiential and interactive volunteer exchange opportunities to help manage and express emotional, social, and life skills in order to build and strengthen each individual as well as assimilate those in transition back into the community.

This marks our third fundraiser to support the development and implementation of our Art of Xpression Creative Wellness Programs, and your donation will be used to provide wellness experience and education, supplies, workshop development, and staffing. Your donations will support our creative arts wellness programs that we craft and provide tailor for those experiencing homelessness and those in transition of all ages. Of the many phases and stages of transitioning towards transformative assimilation, in providing music arts wellness programs and creative wellness services during the early stages of self discovery, social skill strengthening, and identity building, we uniquely offer a first step; with our Initiative to: Create a peaceful today to facilitate a better tomorrow with creative wellness programs and services for any individual experiencing homelessness or in transition through creative wellness experiential and interactive approaches

I established this initiative in honor of my birth father, Don, whom I searched for and found homeless, addicted, and running from the law. Yet, a discovered what I hadn’t previously known prior to our biological reunion, that he was also a musician just like me. In what was an extraordinary and profound journey together, as he ultimately let me become his shadow, advocate, and support system our creative partnership offered him a new way of life securing social services, stabilizing his health, and, eventually, having adopted him permanently into my life and home. He bravely joined me in sharing stories and song as well as crafting wellness workshops for others experiencing homelessness and transformed from a self-identified vagrant to a self-esteemed professional speaker, performing musician, and community volunteer.

Today Fine Arts Revolution Art of Xpression Creative Arts Wellness Programs and Services carry on Don’s legacy of transformation by supporting mental wellness, job and life skills training, healing, education, and all stages of transformation for people of all ages experiencing homelessness and for those in transition through the creative arts with opportunities to volunteer and express in art form as assistive tools to reinstate a sense of center resulting in redirecting towards positivity in the moment and the practice thereof to assist with assimilating people in transition of any age back into the community in positive and productive ways.

This season’s Art of Expression programs will be offered at LA Family Housing Sites, Hollywood Food Co, San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission, Celia Center, and Adoption Constellation Events. Your support this quarter will help us continue to develop, implement, and expand the programs below. Thank you for your support!

2024 Programs:

For more photo and program samples: please visit www.FineArtsRevolution.org

About: Jenni Alpert (Birth name: Cameron, Cami) - Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist was born in Los Angeles, CA and adopted out of the foster care system at the age of four. She started to sing and play piano while in various foster homes and with the encouragement and support of her adoptive family she learned to play the guitar as well and began writing and recording songs early. Her emotionally driven songs weave a unique web of eclectic Soul-Americana Pop. With her honest rich songwriting and soothing musical melodies, songstress Jenni Alpert’s haunting sultry voice has gained the respect of fans and music tastemakers worldwide. As familiar with jazz and Americana as she is pop, Alpert graduated from UCLA in the Ethnomusicology Department after completing a four-year jazz program headed by Kenny Burrell. No stranger to the recording studio, Alpert has released 8 albums and has independently toured over 14 countries with regularity. Upon searching for, finding, and reuniting with her biological father who was homeless, addicted, and running from the law at the time, yet a musician just like her, a film team decided to make an independent non exclusive short documentary entitled Homeless: the Soundtrack directed by Oscar-nominated, Peabody and Emmy Award winning documentary film director Irene Taylor Brodsky, produced by Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz about the early stages that unfold the journey of their biological reunion capturing the unique bond they share as she became his advocate and shadow eventually adopting him into her life and home. The two performed to share their biological reunion adventures and creative approaches in partnership towards transformation with story and song together alongside supporting the film as a duo under the name Cami and Don, The Biological Duo until his passing. Currently, Jenni Alpert (Cami) continues to join a range of non profits like LA Family Housing and Hollywood Food Coalition that focus on offering supportive solutions for homelessness, as well as Celia Center which focuses on adoption, foster care, and the Adoption Constellation support, as keynote speaker, performer, and in the field trainer in support of transformation, education, and healing. For more about the reunion story Read here Cami and Don Story Video Blogs Click here Watch the short doc trailer For Home is Where the Heart is, An Adoption and Biological Reunion Story: the Memoir www.jennialpert.com 

Thank you.