Health Empowerment & Arts Leverage is a specialized arts-based program to explore youth voice and build resiliency and wellness. Throughout the duration of the program, participants ages 14 to 29 will receive ongoing support and positive mentorship from performing artists and facilitators. Youth are guided through weekly workshops to unpack experiences, difficulties and trauma and create original paintings, songs, poems and pieces as a way to learn and grow towards wellness through creativity.

This program is free and is hosted in a safe space with trained trauma-informed arts facilitators. Youth from all Scarborough communities are welcomed and participants do not need any previous artistic experiences to join the workshops. Activities will occur in a variation of in-person, virtual and hybrid platforms and participants will work on safely exploring self-expression and healing through the form of painting, spoken word, slam poetry and music.

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