CreatiVets
Programs
Budget
$10,000.00
Description
This program is intended as a follow up program for veterans who have already completed one of our base level programs. The program is used to rekindle camaraderie between veteran participants while learning a new skill in nature. These programs are typically 4 day travelling programs that take place within national parks or university facilities such as Yellowstone, Arches/Canyonlands, Big Bend national parks and McDonald Observatory. As with all CreatiVets programs, this is offered to veterans at no charge as CreatiVets will cover the costs of travel, lodging, meals and equipment.
Ultimately, this program is designed to make sure that our veteran graduates are still moving forward on their healing journey with art and music.
Beneficiaries
Veterans
Adults
Program Areas Served
All across the United States
$10,000.00
Description
This program is intended as a follow up program for veterans who have already completed one of our base level programs. The program is used to rekindle camaraderie between veteran participants while learning a new skill in nature. These programs are typically 4 day travelling programs that take place within national parks or university facilities such as Yellowstone, Arches/Canyonlands, Big Bend national parks and McDonald Observatory. As with all CreatiVets programs, this is offered to veterans at no charge as CreatiVets will cover the costs of travel, lodging, meals and equipment.
Ultimately, this program is designed to make sure that our veteran graduates are still moving forward on their healing journey with art and music.
Beneficiaries
Veterans
Adults
Program Areas Served
All across the United States
Budget
$2,700.00
Description
This program is identical to our Nashville-based program, with the exception that the write is typically scheduled in conjunction with a CreatiVets event outside of Nashville where professional songwriters are already attending. These writes are arranged for veterans who are unable to travel.
Program Areas Served
None
$2,700.00
Description
This program is identical to our Nashville-based program, with the exception that the write is typically scheduled in conjunction with a CreatiVets event outside of Nashville where professional songwriters are already attending. These writes are arranged for veterans who are unable to travel.
Program Areas Served
None
Description
Introduction to Art for Combat Veterans is a three-week, fully accredited summer art program conducted in partnership with The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), University of Southern California, and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Classes enroll 8-10 students each, they are held on campus, and veteran participants are provided with art materials and supplies, meals, and lodging in a dorm with their classmates. Creativets programs include tuition, materials, travel, food, and housing at no cost to the participant. The cost per veteran is roughly $7000-$7500. Students have full access to studios and equipment at the school, and the program gives them an opportunity to create and discuss art with some of the best art instructors in the country. Through the process, veterans learn the benefits of using art as a form of stress and anxiety relief, as well as a way to tell their stories. Upon completing the three-week program, participants are given an opportunity to share the pieces they have created at a gallery exhibition. Through this showcase, the graduates themselves help raise public awareness about the challenges facing veterans and help other veterans see how art can assist in addressing the psychological and emotional struggles that arise from combat-related trauma. Students who complete the program graduate with college credit and alumni status at the institution they attended.
Program Areas Served
None
Introduction to Art for Combat Veterans is a three-week, fully accredited summer art program conducted in partnership with The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), University of Southern California, and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Classes enroll 8-10 students each, they are held on campus, and veteran participants are provided with art materials and supplies, meals, and lodging in a dorm with their classmates. Creativets programs include tuition, materials, travel, food, and housing at no cost to the participant. The cost per veteran is roughly $7000-$7500. Students have full access to studios and equipment at the school, and the program gives them an opportunity to create and discuss art with some of the best art instructors in the country. Through the process, veterans learn the benefits of using art as a form of stress and anxiety relief, as well as a way to tell their stories. Upon completing the three-week program, participants are given an opportunity to share the pieces they have created at a gallery exhibition. Through this showcase, the graduates themselves help raise public awareness about the challenges facing veterans and help other veterans see how art can assist in addressing the psychological and emotional struggles that arise from combat-related trauma. Students who complete the program graduate with college credit and alumni status at the institution they attended.
Program Areas Served
None
Description
Songwriting is particularly effective in relieving the symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress because it builds new sensory pathways to traumatic memories, without requiring direct verbal expression, which so many veterans resist and avoid. This 3-day songwriting program is held in Nashville, Tennessee, and CreatiVets' innovative peer-to-peer approach offers a safe environment where the excitement of working with hit songwriters outweighs veterans' anxiety, so they learn to express thoughts and feelings, while avoiding the stigma associated with therapy. Capturing veterans' experience in their own voice presents a deeply personal story with a universality that other veterans can understand and relate to. Veterans complete the program with more than their own song to listen to or play whenever they want; they have a new strategy for helping themselves cope with anxiety and depression.
Program Areas Served
None
Songwriting is particularly effective in relieving the symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress because it builds new sensory pathways to traumatic memories, without requiring direct verbal expression, which so many veterans resist and avoid. This 3-day songwriting program is held in Nashville, Tennessee, and CreatiVets' innovative peer-to-peer approach offers a safe environment where the excitement of working with hit songwriters outweighs veterans' anxiety, so they learn to express thoughts and feelings, while avoiding the stigma associated with therapy. Capturing veterans' experience in their own voice presents a deeply personal story with a universality that other veterans can understand and relate to. Veterans complete the program with more than their own song to listen to or play whenever they want; they have a new strategy for helping themselves cope with anxiety and depression.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$1,000.00
Description
Words & Music is the cornerstone K-12 program offered by Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (CMHOF), which provides education resources for language arts, music, and other curriculum. Conceived as a way to keep wait-listed?and at-risk?veterans engaged and excited about our programs, CreatiVets partnered with CMHOF to develop and provide a 5-part online Words & Music course. The first four classes teach basic songwriting, while the last focuses on writing with a professional songwriter. In this format, unlike our other programs, veterans are not required to address their military experience while learning about songwriting. This allows veterans to jumpstart their songwriting education prior to addressing their unseen wounds of war in one-on-one or group sessions. This program has proven successful in preparing veterans for CreatiVets intense peer-to-peer songwriting programs, and as reinforcement for those who have already completed a songwriting program.
Program Areas Served
None
$1,000.00
Description
Words & Music is the cornerstone K-12 program offered by Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (CMHOF), which provides education resources for language arts, music, and other curriculum. Conceived as a way to keep wait-listed?and at-risk?veterans engaged and excited about our programs, CreatiVets partnered with CMHOF to develop and provide a 5-part online Words & Music course. The first four classes teach basic songwriting, while the last focuses on writing with a professional songwriter. In this format, unlike our other programs, veterans are not required to address their military experience while learning about songwriting. This allows veterans to jumpstart their songwriting education prior to addressing their unseen wounds of war in one-on-one or group sessions. This program has proven successful in preparing veterans for CreatiVets intense peer-to-peer songwriting programs, and as reinforcement for those who have already completed a songwriting program.
Program Areas Served
None
