AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

UCLArts and Healing seeks an independent contractor to manage its financial
operations and be an integral part of a staff team. We seek someone with
experience in bookkeeping/accounting and payroll management. We seek an
organized initiative-taker with a passion for our mission. The expected
time commitment would be 4 to 8 hours per week and would likely grow over
time. Work would take place in Santa Monica. Pay rate would be $20 per
hour, unless experience level justifies a higher rate.

UCLArts and Healing facilitates the use of the arts for mind-body wellness
and healing in the community, as a vehicle for empowerment and
transformation. We develop and encourage the use of sustainable programs
that utilize the *process* of creative expression as a source of insight,
self-discovery, emotional growth, and social connection.

Before you apply, please review the website for UCLArts and
Healinghttp://www.uclartsandhealing.net/>.
In particular, please review our Mission, Strategies, and
Purposehttp://www.uclartsandhealing.net/About_Mission.aspx>and
Current
Projects http://www.uclartsandhealing.net/sitepage.aspx?id=76>.

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If you wish to apply, please send a resume and, in lieu of a cover letter,
please complete the application checklist via the link below. Please send
both of these items as attachments to ping@uclartsandhealing.org. When you
send them, please name the documents: "YOUR NAME RESUME" and "YOUR NAME
APPLICATION CHECKLIST". Please use as the subject header of your email:
"YOUR NAME APPLICATION". The candidates that appear to be the best fit will
be contacted for an interview. Thank you.

*UCLArts and Healing Financial Manager - Application
Checklist.docxhttp://www.uclartsandhealing.net/Images/Docs/UCLArts%20and%20Healing%20Financial%20Manager%20-%20Application%20Checklist.docx>
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*A message from the Founding Director*

*"...in the world of art, one can get past the usual confinements..."*
Reneé Emunah, Past President of the National Association for Drama Therapy

The recent national tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut
underscores the need for innovative programs for social-emotional
well-being. The arts allow individual expression within the context of
community. Their nonverbal element makes them accessible to persons of
diverse abilities. The process of creative expression evokes unconscious
information that, when reflected upon and shared, can facilitate emotional
well-being, build empathy, and deepen social connections. Had there been
an art therapist on staff to process the disturbing middle school art work
of the student responsible for the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, perhaps the
whole cataclysm could have been averted.

"Out of the Box: Positive Development and Social Change through the Arts"
talks about UCLArts and Healing's flagship evidence-based project Beat the
Odds: Social and Emotional Skill Building Delivered in a Framework of
Drumming as a case study to share with others how to maximize
social-emotional benefits and youth access for those interested in
developing arts programs. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8092 The
piece, written for the lay public by Founding Director Ping Ho, was
published online by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard,
as part of its as part of its Kinder and Braver World Series.

UCLArts and Healing takes an innovative approach to the arts by maximizing
its benefits to the whole person (social-emotional-cognitive-physical ),
which expands its value and adoption. In addition, UCLArts and Healing
develops sustainable models for program delivery with strategic partners in
the community.

In 2012, we offered innovative programs to the public and:

- continued to develop a training program for Boys and Girls Club
staff – using rhythm, movement, and theater-based based tools to facilitate
positive engagement throughout the day – that will be made available to
every club in the nation.
- collaborated with the YWCA Santa Monica/Westside to develop "A Girl's
Voice" – a daylong program to empower elementary and middle school girls to
deal with the social-emotional pressures that they face.
- brought process-oriented arts programs to schools serving at risk
youth in South Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Santa Clarita Valley.
- developed a sustainable program of creative arts therapies for
mentally ill adults and youth at Step Up on Second and Daniel's Place.
- organized a panel of representatives from the national organizations
of the creative arts therapies at a major international integrative
medicine conference.

In 2013, look for new developments:

- a new certificate program and UCLA undergraduate course in maximizing
social-emotional benefits of arts education
- a new website that will feature video clips demonstrating our work and
the related work of others, and that will allow posting and searching for
organizational, practitioner, conference, literature, training, and
listserv resources
- a new e-letter that will showcase not only new programs but also
writings by experts, research, organizations, resources, opportunities, and
more.

The possibilities are limitless.

UCLArts and Healing develops and facilitates the use of sustainable tools
to maximize the mind-body benefits of and access to the arts* - *for all.

*We encourage each of you to participate actively with us, by sharing
information on relevant programs, organizations, service providers,
research, publications, training opportunities, conferences, websites,
listservs, employment opportunities, funding opportunities, requests for
proposals, and other resources, which you can conveniently submit on our
interactive website in the "resources" section.*

Together, we will add momentum to the movement to empower and transform
lives, creatively.

*Ms. Ping Ho, MA, MPH* http://ccim.med.ucla.edu/?page_id=206>
Founding Director, UCLArts and Healing

Ping Ho MA, MPH
Founding Director, UCLArts and Healing
Email: pingho@ucla.edu
Tel: (310) 452-1439
www.UCLArtsAndHealing.org http://www.UCLArtsAndHealing.net>
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UCLA*rts and Healing facilitates the use of the arts for mind/body wellness
and healing in the community, as a vehicle for empowerment and
transformation.

from LA Culture Net