Support Artales: emotional comfort through art and stories!
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Artales (since 2022) supports students (elementary to college) who want to find emotional comfort through art and storytelling!
Scientific results from Artales show that art therapy followed by narrative therapy significantly improved enjoyment for drawing (p=0.03928) and storytelling (p= 0.01969) in children from 3rd to 5th grade.
Funds will be used to promote and provide the free service, recruit and train qualified facilitators, and purchase supplies.
More information: https://bit.ly/artales
- An interactive session (following the ideas of narrative therapy) for children to gain emotional comfort and an understanding of their feelings through art and storytelling
- Develop content and session manual, recruit/train facilitators (2+), outreach (daycare/after school centers and local youth communities)
- Develop pre-session and post-session surveys to scientifically measure effectiveness
- Elementary School Sessions: 31 children, 3rd - 5th graders, 45-minute, quarterly meetings, since June 2022
- Highschool Session: 3-6 highschoolers, 9 - 12th grade, 45-minute, quarterly meetings, since September 2023
- Harvard Session (upcoming): Harvard Summer Session students, weekly residential hall meetings, summer 2024
- Submitted session effectiveness results to science fairs (details below)
3rd place - Individual, Life & Behavioral Sciences, Northern California Region, Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (JSHS), San Francisco, CA, February 2024 (11th grade)
Wang, Alina. “The Effects of Art Therapy Followed by Narrative Therapy on Stress-Related Behaviors in Children from 3rd to 5th Grade” (https://bit.ly/JSHSslides)
3rd place - Individual, Biomedical Sciences, Alameda County Science & Engineering Fair (ACSEF), Newark, CA, March 2023 (10th grade)
Wang, Alina. “The Effects of Art Therapy Followed by Narrative Therapy on Stress-Related Behaviors in Children from 3rd to 5th Grade” (https://bit.ly/ACSEFslides)
All proceeds will be used towards Artales. Your generous support is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Organizer and beneficiary
Alina Wang
Organizer
San Jose, CA
Liming Chou
Beneficiary