Every day in America, children face enormous events that people of any age would find difficult to endure. For young people the emotional toll is heavy, and often suffered throughout their lives
Art from Ashes Inc. is a Colorado nonprofit organization formed in 2003 to address the therapeutic needs of high-risk young people through poetry and other creative arts. The Phoenix Rising writing and spoken word process was developed after extensive research and 14 years of working with high-risk youth. Art from Ashes contracts with other youth service organizations to provide therapeutic poetry and creative arts workshops for high-risk youth, including youth in residential treatment, those who live in urban settings, are homeless, incarcerated, court-involved—any young person in need of hope and a self-determined future.
