by createnow | Mar 2, 2021 | Arts, Create Now in the News, Featured Programs, Latest News, Uncategorized
     Teenage foster girls living at Crittenton Services in Fullerton really enjoyed Create Now’s Photography workshop taught by Robin Laananen. She travels extensively with bands to shoot photos for Rolling Stone, Universal Music Group, and other music...
by createnow | Oct 28, 2020 | Arts, Create Now in the News, Featured Programs, Latest News, Uncategorized
Since May, Create Now has been providing fun arts classes to youth living at foster group homes, shelters, transitional-living facilities and housing projects throughout the region. Many of these children are forced to deal with the impact of trauma from abuse,...
by createnow | May 1, 2020 | Arts, Create Now in the News, Featured Programs, Latest News, Uncategorized
While all of us are staying safe at home, thousands of youth in Southern California have no homes to stay in, nor families to comfort them during the Covid-19 pandemic. They’re forced to live in shelters, group homes, detention centers and transitional living...
by createnow | Sep 26, 2019 | Arts, Create Now in the News, Featured Programs, Latest News, Uncategorized
Thanks to Clinical Psychologist Dr. Alexa Altman, Create Now provided a class in a Japanese art form called Kintsugi at Penny Lane in Northridge. Foster kids and young adults were taught how to glue pottery shards together to make something that was broken become much...
by createnow | Oct 30, 2018 | Arts, Create Now in the News, Featured Programs, Latest News, Uncategorized
Los Angeles County has more foster youth than anywhere in the nation – 30,000. These kids face tremendous challenges when aging out of the DCFS system at age 18. They have moved to an average of eight different foster homes and schools, which makes them feel...