First I want to say my heart and prayers go out to everyone effected by this most recent school shooting and to everyone effected by violence in today's society. But in light of the most recent school shooting,we are asking-how can we prevent violence such as this one. It started me thinking about all the projects and programs we developed when I ran my non profit Center For The Arts for fifteen years. Starting in 1999 we were talking about and creating Arts in Prevention Programs. We went into schools and communities with arts programs to raise awareness, to educate and most importantly to allow youth to express themselves in non-threatening ways. I am reminded of one particular workshop in a school where we were discussing issues of school violence and the art produced encompassed guns and violent imagery-this is what they were feeling and trying to express and what the workshop was supposed to be about. When the social workers saw the imagery their response to me was, you c...
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