Helping the children

I used to think of abuse as either physical or sexual, when in fact there is abuse at varying degrees and in different forms.

Abuse can be in the form of physical, sexual, torture, rejection, neglect, humiliation, malnourishment etc. Sometimes children are victims of more than one kind of abuse. For most children, the trauma is immediate, for others the destruction of childhood innocence is a slow ongoing process, but for all, abuse creates pain that can last a lifetime.
Free Arts Minnesota serves to interrupt the cycle of violence.
We may never be able to stop abuse completely, but if we can at least interrupt the cycle, then we have a chance at decreasing the prevalence.

Some of the benefits of art for children include: improvement in the ability to be attentive and engaged in school, greater self-esteem, improvement of personal motivation, improvement in the ability to be self-expressive, improvement in the ability to communicate, and an increase in positive relations with adults.

To find out how you can help kids, click here to learn about 10 things you can do!