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Please explain the <br />impact of your <br />organization on the <br />Orange County <br />community in a <br />typical year. <br />W hile the Art Therapy Institute (ATI) serv es some clients beyond <br />Orange County, the majority of our work takes place in Orange <br />County. Here are examples: <br />In the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS), more than 100 <br />students in the Exceptional Children’s program receiv e weekly art <br />therapy from ATI clinicians. In addition, approximately 150 newly <br />arriv ed refugee and immigrant children are serv ed though the <br />Newcomers Art Therapy Program in the CHCCS. ATI is also a co- <br />located mental health agency within the CHCCS so that all children <br />can hav e access to art therapy serv ices. <br />Beyond the work ATI does in the school system, the organization <br />also serv es adult newcomers through the Carrboro Community <br />Health Center. For these sessions, ATI also hires interpreters. Bi- <br />monthly women newcomer art therapy groups are offered in <br />collaboration with Refugee Community Partnership (RCP). RCP helps <br />by finding v olunteers to prov ide babysitting serv ices for the women’s <br />children. Approximately 40 newcomers are serv ed through these <br />additional branches of the program. <br />Through the Arts and Peer Support Group, ATI reaches <br />approximately 40 Orange County adults liv ing with sev ere and <br />persistent mental illness. This peer-led, arts-based support group <br />meets weekly. During the pandemic, this program was the first one <br />ATI mov ed online. Not only was it successful, ATI was able to expand <br />its reach to people without transportation as well as to people with <br />sev ere social anxiety. In what has become a "typical" year, ATI offers <br />this group both in-person and online. <br />ATI also prov ides educational offerings in the Orange County <br />community. Each year, ATI hosts one or more interns from the UNC <br />School of Social W ork. These Master’s lev el students hav e the <br />opportunity to learn about arts-based therapy and how to ethically <br />integrate it into their work as social workers. ATI also hosts interns <br />from distance learning Master’s lev el expressiv e arts therapy <br />programs, allowing Orange County-based indiv iduals to obtain a <br />Master’s degree in expressiv e arts therapy without hav ing to <br />relocate. <br />Additionally, ATI offers a robust workshop series with themes such <br />as: introduction to art therapy; art therapy with special populations; <br />selfcare; trauma; Soul Collage©; and creativ e mindfulness. ATI offers <br />workshops both in-person and online to Orange County participants <br />as well as ATI audiences from around the world. <br />Finally, ATI participates in the Chapel Hill Carrboro 2nd Friday Artwalk. <br />These monthly ev ents allow ATI to showcase the work of like-minded <br />local artists as well as some ATI clients. W hen appropriate, ATI uses <br />an online gallery platform to host these art shows. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 0882C1F6-CA79-42B1-994E-254F3E3E0522