Impact
Our 2019 Impact:
From the beginning, a circle of connected innovation — comprised of each facilitator, supporter, staff, board member, and survivor — has created AWBW. As we celebrate 30 years of transforming trauma, we invite you to join us in both honoring the talents that have brought our work this far and carrying that work into a sustainable future.
A leader in creativity and mental wellness, AWBW supports hundreds of direct service organizations across the country to incorporate creative expression into their work with trauma survivors. AWBW’s training in facilitating art as a tool for transformation and healing, along with our library of curriculum and ongoing support, strengthens our program partners’ ability to better assist the individuals and communities they serve.
AWBW builds capacity at partnering organizations through training their staff to facilitate our trauma-informed art workshops, as well as continuing to support them as they implement the Windows Program with those who have experienced various forms of trauma. Through this unique model, we have developed a nationwide network of 600+ Windows Facilitators, allowing us to reach tens of thousands of survivors each year.
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"The art projects are a lifeline. They help me to reach into my soul..."
Participant, Adult Windows ProgramOur 2019 Impact:
On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. On...
Our partnerships with sexual assault agencies dates back to our collaboration in 1997 with One Safe Place in Shasta...
Children and youth often lack the words to describe their experiences. A Window Between Worlds collaborates with multiple agencies...
As one Windows Facilitator from Habitat for Humanity – SF/SCV told A Window Between Worlds, “Trauma from violence is...
It can be particularly difficult for children and teens to express their feelings, or even know what they are feeling,...
AWBW’s Feeling Friends art workshop provides a safe place for children surviving domestic violence to define, express and store their...
Not until working with A Window Between Worlds was the emotional chain of violence finally broken for this survivor. Maura...
Silvia’s Personal Needs Flower Eighteen years after first finding A Window Between Worlds, Silvia Rico shares the critical window of...
63% of boys, age 11-20 who commit murder, kill the man who was abusing their mother.* A child witnessing domestic...
Art is a non-verbal means of expression that bypasses cognitive barriers and enables children to make emotional breakthroughs that simply...
Witnessing domestic violence has a devastating impact on children, who often lack the words to describe their experiences. The Children’s...
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