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Girls Rock Santa Barbara
“Girls Rock Santa Barbara empowers girls* through music education, creative expression, and performance ; promoting an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity, and teamwork.
We challenge gender stereotypes, encourage collaboration and tolerance among peers, and provide a comfortable space for girls of all backgrounds to express themselves. Through music lessons, workshops, group activities, and performance, girls learn skills that help guide them throughout their lives.
We are working together to build a Santa Barbara where youth girls…
- decide what it looks like and feels like to be a girl
- trust and support each other
- recognize the power and pleasure of their own creativity
- use music as a powerful way to communicate and exchange ideas
- are safe and encouraged to explore their identities
- are able to bring every part of themselves into every moment and are continually affirmed in their wholeness
- have their voices valued in a collective community dialogue where we decide what a safe community looks like for everyone
- are celebrated in their state of beings
* Girls Rock Santa Barbara values difference and accepts any and all participants who identify as female, trans, and gender non-conforming.
Why Girls Rock SB?
At GRSB, we believe our girls should love the music they make and love themselves for making it. Since founding the local organization (one of many international sisters to the original Portland-based Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls) in 2014, Executive Director Jen Baron and her dedicated team of staff and volunteers have made sure that young girls don’t miss the chance to strum, pound, rip, and scream if they want.
Why? Because it’s fun and we deserve it.
At the end of the day, it really has nothing to do with the fact that we finally nailed that chord or drum solo. It’s that these girls are given the freedom and encouragement to create art without permission, without perfection, without peer pressure. In that messy, liberating process of creating something that’s truly theirs, these girls figure out that they are enough in all that they do.
And isn’t that always the bottom line? We thought so, too.”
Click here for more information on Girls Rock SB.
For Kids Foundation Monterey Bay
For Kids Foundation Monterey Bay is one of our 2016 Grant recipients. Here is some information on their foundation and how they are serving their community.
WHO WE ARE
For Kids Foundation Monterey Bay is the financial provider of last resort for unmet critical needs of children through the age of 20.
We are a group of local community members who volunteer our time trying to make a difference where we live. All donations are distributed locally by people who live in, work in and know the Monterey Bay area. Many of our members work with underprivileged kids on an everyday basis and understand the needs of our local children. This understanding allows us to make informed decisions.
WHO WE HELP
For Kids Foundation Monterey Bay serves children and young adults from birth through age 19 in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties in California.
OUR FOCUS
For Kids Foundation Monterey Bay provides basic assistance in areas such as education, health and well-being. We pay directly to service providers on behalf of children for items or services not covered under existing programs.
MEASURING OUR SUCCESS
“Lives changed” is the measure of our success. For Kids Foundation Monterey Bay maintains the privacy of children while tracking all donations made and funds expended.
COLLABORATION
Collaboration with other agencies in the community is accomplished by networking, especially through courts, schools and other local agencies who serve children. Because we are not a tightly regulated government agency, we have the flexibility to assist children who have no other options and the ability to expedite their requests.
Click here for more about For Kids Foundation Monterey Bay.
Big Sunday
Big Sunday connects people through helping. They provide a wide variety of opportunities and projects that bring people together to improve lives, build community and give people a sense of belonging. If you are looking for an opportunity to give back and volunteer Big Sunday will help find a place for you!
“Don’t miss Big Sunday’s MM@10 (Monday Mornings at 10) event where we host a different service project weekly that benefits a worthy cause! Enjoy breakfast goodies, like-minded people and good deeds; everyone is welcome. Groups we’ve helped shelters, hospitals, senior facilities and nonprofit organizations throughout Greater Los Angeles. For more info or to sign up, contact beenish@bigsunday.org. Please click HERE for more details.”
Click here for more information on Big Sunday.
The Art of Yoga Project
An overwhelming number of incarcerated girls are victims themselves, caught in cycles of violence and abuse. The Art of Yoga Project is working to break this cycle.
Their approach combines yoga, meditation, creative arts and writing and is the result of over a decade of experience teaching mindfulness-based practices to justice-involved girls. Their model is significantly influenced by shared learnings from our partners in mental health, probation, the judiciary and education. It combines gender-responsive best practices with trauma-sensitive yoga, developmental assets for healthy adolescent maturation and contemporary neuroscience research on developmental trauma and the brain.
Their programming utilizes the Child Trauma Academy’s evidence-based Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics to address the particular needs of girls in the juvenile justice system. This model guides our class sequencing by addressing emotional dysregulation, which is common in traumatized youth. The class structure mirrors “bottom-up” brain development by first regulating the brainstem (the “survival brain”) through sensory integration and self-regulation, then the limbic system (the “feeling brain”) through relational activities, and finally the prefrontal cortex (the “learning brain”) through cognitive activities. Another way to explain this sequencing is with the “three R’s” described in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics —first we Regulate, then Relate then Reason.
The Child Trauma Academy recommends yoga, meditation, and expressive arts as part of essential, therapeutic interventions to regulate traumatized individuals’ nervous systems and bring them back into balance.
Click here to learn more about The Art of Yoga Project.
Beauty Bus
Beauty Bus Foundation delivers dignity, hope and respite to chronically or terminally ill men, women and children and their caregivers through beauty and grooming services and pampering products.
Beauty Bus accomplishes our mission through:
- In-Home Beauty and Grooming Services: Beauty Bus’ core program provides in-home beauty and grooming services, free of charge, to patients whose illness or condition prevents them from accessing a salon or spa and their caregivers.
- Pop-Up Salons: Beauty Bus creates Pop-Up Salons where patients and caregivers receive a variety of complimentary beauty and grooming services in a setting that promotes support and serenity.
- Bag of Beauty Program: Beauty Bus gives complimentary Bags of Beauty filled with pampering products to remind patients and caregivers that they deserve to look and feel beautiful.
Click here to learn more about Beaty Bus.
Angelica Center for Arts and Music (ACAM)
Angelica Center for Arts and Music (ACAM) is a 2016 Grant Recipient here is a little about their mission and to learn more about them you can click here.
Provide underserved youth with an opportunity to develop skills and an appreciation for a wide variety of the arts, creating through individual and ensemble participation a strong sense of community, self-esteem, motivation and responsibility.
Angelica Center for Arts and Music – ACAM – nurtures and mentors youth in the arts by exploring and developing their creative abilities in a safe environment because the arts enrich lives:
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promotes healthy growth and development of children through the study, practice and performance of the arts.
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builds healthier communities by investing in the positive development of children through the arts.
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develops children as ambassadors of peace, hope and understanding.
Angelica Center for Arts and Music is dedicated to:
Commitment: ACAM is committed to providing young people from low income families the opportunity to develop their talents in the arts: dance, music, theatre. This commitment benefits the children, their families and the community.
Community: ACAM builds a feeling of community among the students and their families. This sense of community is shared by the teachers, staff, board members and community partners. The classes at ACAM bring joy and hope to the community.
Confidence: ACAM builds a sense of self and develops a realization of one’s importance within a group.
Collaboration: ACAM helps students learn to collaborate with one another in dance, theatre and music classes, as well as within their families. With skills they have already learned, older students help mentor younger ones. Teachers, staff and board members learn from each other and grow. ACAM is sustained by collaboration with parents, Angelica Lutheran Church, Hope Street Family Center and New City Parish.
Respect: ACAM teachers demonstrate respect for the talent of their students and for their potential. In turn, the students develop a respect for self, their peers and their teachers. Students learn to respect and appreciate the efforts of their parents to provide an arts education for them. The teachers, staff, board members and community collaborators share a strong sense of respect for the mission of Angelica Center for Arts and Music.
Responsibility: ACAM students develop responsibility by managing their time, practicing their instruments, preparing theatre and dance lessons, and learning material assigned to them. Students develop a sense of responsibility to each other. ACAM students learn to take responsibility for their growth and development and for helping their fellow students learn. In doing so, they learn they have a responsibility to give back to their community – to be a good citizen.
Integrity: The board members, staff and teachers strive to give their best efforts to this work. ACAM emphasizes teaching the whole child.
Sustainability: ACAM is committed to finding ways to sustain the work of ACAM for both current and future students. ACAM also encourages students to think about and demonstrate sustainability within their families, the community and the world.
Neighborhood Homework House
Happening at Urban Youth Workers Institute conference!
Right now three of our high school students are participating in a community mural project.
Click here to learn more about Neighborhood Homework House.
The Heart Touch Project
Massage therapists have an important roll on the Pain and Palliative Care Team.
They can assist in relieving physical and emotional aspects of pain.
The Heart Touch Project is now training massage therapists and those certified to touch the art and science of Pain and Palliative Massage.
The next Two day training is June 10-11.
Visit their training page here.
Click here to learn more about The Heart Touch Project.
The Art of Yoga Project
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