How the Arts Can Help with Mental Health
Painting flowers, making paper mache animals or drawing a stick figure family can be a fun hobby, but did you know it can also help improve your mental health? COVID 19 & the Pandemic Due to the pandemic, many people have begun to experience anxiety and depression...
National Foster Care Month!
With May being National Foster Care month, we want to bring light to some alarming statistics about foster care in the United States. On any given day, roughly 424,000 children are in foster care across the country. Many of these children end up in foster care due to...
Art from the Sole
Havaianas has been a great partner of Create Now and our “Art from the Sole” program provided through Zoom on December 12 was no exception! Through their support, youth facing challenges from Angel’s Flight Shelter, Penny Lane Centers, Koreatown...
Homelessness In Los Angeles
While Los Angeles is one of the most affluent cities in the world, at the beginning of 2020 it was estimated that 17,000 children were homeless. Even more young people are expected to become homeless due to the COVID pandemic. LAHSA Executive Director Heidi Marston...
Arts & Crafts at LAFH
Create Now’s Arts and Crafts program at LA Family Housing has been provided virtually, but that doesn’t mean the kids missed out on any of the fun! Our volunteer Kelle Meschede helped the students make their craft projects over Zoom. LAFH staff member Lesem Puerto was...
Cooking Program Includes Shake Shack
Create Now volunteers Ali Clarke from the Food Network and Santos Loo hosted a virtual cooking course for teenagers facing homelessness at the Angels Flight Youth Shelter near downtown LA. Through this four-week course, students learned kitchen basics, like knife...