Nurturing the Child’s Spirit through Art
ArtCares for Kids is a Miami-based nonprofit organization serving children in medical settings dealing with psychological, emotional and physical challenges. Our dedicated members and volunteers understand the benefits of nurturing children through the creative process of art and strive to provide art as a therapeutic and healing tool.
Children with cancer describe the effects of treatment as exhausting and weakening. Chemotherapy makes them feel sad, tired, and scared, taking a tremendous toll, not only on their physical, but their emotional lives.
“Art provides a nonverbal way for children to express their feelings and traumas. It helps them assert their individuality and prevent their illness from defining who they are,” says Clinical Art Therapist Liz Portuondo, who along with Tania Quintana and Dorian Rosen, founded ArtCares for Kids in 2010 to help children in the Pediatric Oncology and Transplant units at Jackson Memorial’s Holtz Children Hospital.
Using different mediums and art directives, ArtCares volunteers create a positive environment where children affected by challenging, traumatic experiences, and/or life-threatening diseases, can safely express their feelings about the world around… Learn more.
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Your donations make a direct impact on the life of a child living with cancer. The young patients spend a large number of hours confined to their rooms. Help make theirs a more colorful and pleasant place!
ArtCares for Kids invites you to delight everyone on your list by giving a donation in their name, and making a difference in the life of a child living with cancer.
Volunteer Your Time
ArtCares for Kids relies on our fantastic group of volunteers, without whom we would not be able to help so many children every week.
The ArtCares volunteers meet twice per week to create art projects with the children of the Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Units of the Holtz Children’s Hospital.
If you would like to volunteer, just download this PDF Application, fill it out, and email it to Info@ArtCaresForKids.org