2018-751-E Finance - The Art Therapy Institute performance agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:4FF28E49-EE56-4A40-9331-F55AA8A05998 EXHIBIT A: PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION received our first contract with DPS to run 6 art therapy groups with their growing newcomer students. This contract continues today, with potential growth in 2018. • Refugee Health Coalition brings together the Orange County health department, social service providers, schools, two local healthcare systems, and four resettlement agencies. ATI clinicians attend the Refugee Health Coalition quarterly meetings to keep up-to-date on refugee health issues and receive support from other organizations. • Refugee Mental Health Coalition subcommittee was formed as a special task force of mental health providers specifically focused on refugees. ATI sits on this committee, collaborates with other committee members, and has hosted meetings at our offices. • Duke Interdisciplinary Social Innovators are masters level Duke students who provide a variety of consultancy services for social organizations, including impact evaluation, capacity building, strategy, technology integration, and finance. ATI is currently working with them on strategic planning, marketing, and development to increase program and agency sustainability and outreach. • UNC School of Social Work: ATI collaborates with the Refugee Mental Health and Wellness Initiative (A program of UNC's School of Social Work) to offer refugee women's groups in Orange County. ATI refers clients to RW and acts as a referral source for RW. ATI has also informally enlisted RW students in research endeavors. • Transplanting Traditions is a community farm whose mission is to provide refugee adults and youth access to land, healthy food and agricultural and entrepreneurial opportunities. ATI collaborates with refugee farmers to harvest and prepare traditional Burmese food for our community art events. • Refugee Community Partnership (RCP) is a community-driven organization working to build unique, holistic, and comprehensive support infrastructure for relocated families. ATI currently shares an administrative office with RCP and collaborates on various refugee-based programs, including an ongoing refugee women's group for women from Burma. • Church World Service (CWS) is a nonprofit connecting newcomers with community resources and social integration opportunities in order to meet their immediate needs as well as promote long-term self-sufficiency as they build new futures in the US. ATI offers bi-weekly art therapy groups to newly arrived refugees. • Lutheran Family Services is another program supporting newly arrived refugees in the Triangle. ATI has offered pro-bono art therapy groups to children through their program. • UNC-Greensboro Center for New North Carolinians: ATI's Executive Director is currently a research fellow at UNC-G's CNNC. By participating in this research group, ATI is able to share their own research methods and results with allied professionals and learn from other local researchers engaging in refugee-based programs. • Duke Kenan Refugee Project: The Kenan Institute for Ethics has engaged in a multi- site community-based research project that has included sites in eastern Nepal; Cairo, Egypt; Jordan; northeastern Kenya; and Durham exploring the effects of displacement and resettlement upon refugees. In 2018, ATI plans to co-lead weekly art therapy groups for both women and children through the Durham-based project. • Lincoln Community Health Center: ATI has been working with pediatricians at Lincoln Center to increase art therapy services for refugee children in Durham in 2018. • Doris Henderson Newcomers School: ATI is scheduled to meet with representatives from this Greensboro-based school in January 2018 to explore options for collaboration. • USCRI-Raleigh: ATI is meeting with this resettlement agency in January 2018 to explore the possibility of expanding art therapy services to newcomers in Wake County. PROGRAM INFORMATION 1/23/2018 10:01:04 AM Page 14 of 24