SS1 | Special Series on Trauma Response with Nicole Porter Davis | Creating A Creative Arts Therapy Trauma Response Team

Reina Lombardi • April 13, 2020

Episode 1: Creating A Creative Arts Therapy Trauma Response Team

Nicole Porter Davis, ATR-BC, LPC, LCAT is today's guest. She is the founder of Emerald Sketch ART, inc. The Emerald Sketch’s global mission is to work with children and families within their communities to heal symptoms of post traumatic stress and complex grief when devastated with unforeseeable tragedy. It grew out of Nicole's work responding to the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012. Since then she has taught other clinicians how to quickly mobilize and find funding to support creative arts based trauma response treatment programs following various large scale traumatic events. In addition, she is the President Elect for the New York Art Therapy Association. On the show today she shares about how she created the trauma response team and secured funding to support continued care after she left.

This is episode 1 of an 8 part series dedicated to trauma response. We thought it was helpful to ground the series with our original interview. In the episodes that follow, we will be breaking down specific aspects of clinical response to support clinicians so that they can continue to support their communities.

Resources:

https://emeraldsketch.com/

https://arttherapyporter.wordpress.com/

Email: emeraldsketch@gmail.com

https://www.gofundme.com/

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