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January 2012: NEWS FROM OUR PRESIDENT:
*ARTicipation: A Pop Up Studio. Opening this Sunday, Jan 22 at the Epsten Gallery of Art at Village Shalom in Overland Park, Kansas. KATA is partnering with this wonderful gallery and many local KC artists to provide an open/ self guided studio (open to the general public) along with many workshops between 1/22-2/24. Please see the Epsten Gallery website at:
www.kcjmca.org. This is a GREAT opportunity to help put KATA on the map in KC, and we will hopefully have some media coverage with this event as well as establish a relationship in the KC arts community. Please let us know if you are interested in volunteering in any way.
*Emporia State Discovery Days...This is a great opportunity to support the wonderful things happening in the Emporia State Art Therapy Program. This year’s featured speaker will be Dr. Harrriet Wadeson, retired head of the University of Illinois Art Therapy Program, and one of the founder’s of the art therapy profession in the US. This event will be taking place in March.
*KATA fall conference- October 12-13th. Due to the change in the AATA conference, we decided to go back to a fall conference schedule. We have great things planned for this, thanks to Jessica Stallings. This year’s conference will feature people from an organization called Peace Paper. These great folks travel all over the US working with returning soldiers through a therapeutic process of teaching them how to turn their uniforms into paper. More info to follow.
*TEDxOverlandPark October 17th- I have secured the license to host a TEDx event this fall! If you are not familiar with TED, please look at their website at
TED.com. This is a very big deal. I initially applied for this license, thinking it would be an interesting avenue for an art therapist to be featured The magnitude of a TEDx event is humongous on many levels. The TED events are often surrounded by a media frenzy, and tickets go very very fast. We will have a series of 18 minute speeches from people in a variety of fields including art therapy to an audience of about 100 people. The speeches are filmed and then go to the TED website. These videos are sometimes watched by several million people..really!
With the rise of smartphones and apps, TED has taken the world by storm and is a growing trend on the world right now, a speaker’s life can often be transformed by their involvement in giving a TED presentation due to the popularity of this website/app.
I have already scheduled some fantastic speakers for this event who include: Dr. Wes Jackson of the Land Institute (considered by the Smithsonian to be one of the 35 most important people in the world for his involvement in sustainable farming practices), Dr. Richard Gordon, a physicist doing research on neural networks as a model for computer security, Dr. Eduardo Pena Dolhun a doctor involved with medical work in war torn countries and refugee camps and developer of a medical grade rehydration drink called Drip Drop, and a few others speakers. There will also be a party before and after the event in the atrium of the Nerman Museum. This TEDx event will take place at the Nerman Museum of Contemproary Art in Overland Park.
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KATA members collaborate with Kansas City area artists at the Epsten Gallery for:
ARTicipation Pop Up Studio!
January 22-February 26, 2012 at Epsten Gallery
5500 West 123rd Street, Overland Park, KS 66209
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Gallery hours: 11am-4pm Tues-Fri; 1-4 Sat-Sun
913.266.8413 / www.kcjmca.org / mdc.kcjmca@gmail.com
Opens this Sunday, January 22, 2012 with a reception from
1-4pm. Weekly activities will continue in the gallery through Sunday,
February 26, 2012, and ARTicipation will become part of each exhibition
presented in the Epsten Gallery this season!
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MEMBER NEWS: KATA member Nicole Martin recently returned from Ann Arbor, MI where she spent the summer training with the Department of Child & Family Life at the University of Michigan’s C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital, including medical art therapy for children with traumatic brain injuries.
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AVRIL LAVIGNE ARTSTAR CAMP FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: Thanks to a grant from the Avril Lavigne Foundation, Easter Seals Capper in Topeka and the art therapy students and professors of Emporia State University are collaborating to provide Saturday morning camps for fall 2011 and winter 2012 for children with special needs. Art therapy students will gain hands-on training working with this special population. Sky’s The Limit Studio of Lawrence is providing consultation to the project. See more at Avril’s blog at
http://www.theavrillavignefoundation.org/users/WUhW2ZGM/blogs/1357891
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Thank you KATA members for helping sponsor The D.O.V.E. Center!
On Saturday Sept 24 at
The American Jazz Museum, Gifted Hands Gallery
hosted 100 Men in Aprons. At the event, men volunteer to make a
favorite dish and serve it to the attendees. Art Therapist Andrew
Elman was one the the men in aprons. Robert Lackie was one of the
attendees. It was great fun for a great cause. More money was raised
this year than any other and it was wonderful to see an art therapy
presence at the event. You can check out Gifted Hands and The D.O.V.E.
Center by visiting
www.giftedhandskc.com
Janice (Nannie) Mead, MS, ATR-BC, LPC
Art Therapist for The D.O.V.E. Center
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ART THERAPY IN THE SCHOOLS NEWS: Exciting news from KATA member Robert Lackie: “I wanted to let you know about my participation in receiving a large private donor grant for the sucessful inclusion and participation of students with disabilities in the creative arts at Shawnee Mission Schools. The grant was given to our team, “A.R.T.S - Adaptations, Resources, Teachers, and Strategies for All” for follow through of this next school year 2011-2012.”
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Please join KATA for the Chalk Walk in Historic Northeast KC this weekend! (April 23-24, 2011)
KATA is proud to be one of the sponsors of this great event . We will be working on our “square” this Saturday and this Sunday if you can join us. Please let me know (Sherri Jacobs) if you think you are coming so we can coordinate a time and a place to meet. For details please check out the website: www.chalkwalk.org.
KATA was invited this past week (Thurs, April 14, 2011) to give the keynote address (thank you Noel) at the annual crime victims’ rights weekevent sponsored by the District Attorney of Johnson County through a grant from the Dept. of Justice. Noel gave a stellar speech to a crowd of 100 people on the benefits of art therapy. It was a great networking event for KATA and the gallery where it was held (VALA Gallery) is interested in collaborating on future projects with KATA. The D.A.’s office already has us on their radar for next year! There was a plug in the KC Star preceding the event and Fox4 news covered the evening. Go KATA!!!!
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ANNOUNCING a Winter Art Contest
The Missouri Family to Family Resource Center is accepting art submissions for future publications! The contest is open to individuals of any age with an intellectual or otherdevelopmental disability or developmental delay who reside in Missouri. The first prize winner will receive $20, second place receives $15, and third prize wins $10. All prize recipients will be featured on the Missouri Family to Family Resource Center website, in our Partnering Together newsletter, and in the next issue of Volunteer Voice. |
Submission Guidelines
Entries may be in any art medium on standard size paper no smaller than 8 1/2” x 11” and no larger than 9” x 12”. An accompanying sheet with the following information must be included:
Name of artist:
Address:
Phone:
Email:
Title of Work:
Send art entries to
MO F2F - Art Contest
215 W Pershing, 6th Floor
Kansas City, MO 64108
Entries must be received by Friday, February 28, 2011. Prize recipients will be notified via email or phone by March 15, 2011.
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KATA 2011 SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION SHEET: Click here
kata-33rd-symp-reg.pdf for the registration sheet for the upcoming 33rd annual KATA symposium in Parkville, MO (NOT KS!!) on April 1-2, 2011.
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DISCOVERY DAY 2011 INFO!: Click here
discovery-day-registration-flyer.pdf for information regarding the annual Discovery Day at Emporia State University. Will be held on March 12, 2011. CEUs provided!
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KANSAS ART THERAPY & ONCOLOGY ARTICLE: Julie Roush and Roland & Marilyn Demers of Naturally Yours, Inc. of Kansas City, were featured in a wonderful article titled Ars Medica: Soothing cancer patients through art therapy in the online oncology magazine onclive.com. The full-text .pdf is under “KATA Membership Publications” on our Resources page. Check it out!
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CREATIVE ARTS THERAPY ON THE RADIO: CAT services were featured on the
NPR show
Studio 360 in December 2010. A good listen and a great resource! You can download the podcast at:
http://feeds.wnyc.org/studio360/podcast (”Art as Medicine”).
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SOUL COLLAGE WORKSHOP: Libby Schmanke is offering a SoulCollage workshop at her Lawrence studio on Saturday, June 26th, 2010, fresh from a training with Seena Frost herself in California! Visit
www.artandinsight.com and click on Upcoming Events for more.
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CREATIONS OF HOPE DEADLINE APPROACHING: It’s time for the 6th annual Creations of Hope art exhibit sponsored by Valeo in Topeka, celebrating artwork made by artists with mental illness, curated by art therapist Cara Weeks. Click here for the flyer with details:
creations-brochure-10 The deadline for submissions is August 11, 2010.
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KANSAS ART THERAPIST IN BRAZIL!: Art therapist and ESU art therapy program department chair Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro recently traveled to Brazil with the Rotary Group Study Exchange (GSE) Team. From Gaelynn: “Each team member is excited to explore how our fields are approached and practiced within the cultural context of Brazil. Although I know there are ineeded art therapists in Brazil, I’m not sure we’ll be in the parts of the country where they work and live. I’m looking forward to meeting professionals in the many fields related to art therapy, including psychologists, counselors, artists, second responders, indigenous healers, and more. I’m eager to learn about the culturally specific and personal symbol systems in the art of Brazil, and to absorb the culture, language and life of this colorful country. Click here to view their blog:
http://rotarygse5710-brazil2010.blogspot.com
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OPEN HOUSE EVENT IN LEE’S SUMMIT, MO: Click here for flyer with information about art therapist Deanna Rand’s open house for her new private practice: openhouse
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: New book Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism will be on bookshelves in April for Autism Awareness Month and features Kansas art therapist Nicole Martin in a chapter co-authored with Dr. Donna Betts on art therapy and autism. Info at http://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Edge-Therapies-Autism-2010-2011-Siri/dp/1616080256
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CONGRATULATIONS to art therapist Robert Lackie for being named the State of Kansas Arts and Disabilities Educator of the Year for 2010! The awards ceremony and luncheon was held on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 10:30 am at the Kansas State School for the Blind in Kansas City, Kansas. Robert Lackie has worked for Shawnee Mission Schools for over 10 years as an art therapist and had provided a variety of art therapy services to students in the Special Education Department of the district.
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NEW ARTS CENTER AT SYNERGY YRC IN KCMO: Synergy’s new Youth Resilency Center has opened its doors and is having several kickoff events beginning on Sunday, March 14 (4-6 pm). Art therapists Jen Kempema, Andrew Elman, and Callie Lawson welcome you to view their art and the new arts center, including a graffitti wall by Scribe. Visit www.synergyservices.org for more!
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INFORMATION ON NEW ELIZABETH LAYTON POSTERS FOR SALE: Click here for Images Gallery info:
avis.pdf
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36th ANNUAL ESU ART THERAPY DISCOVERY DAY!: Saturday, March 13, 2010, Emporia, KS
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2010 KATA CONFERENCE IN ELMDALE, KS: This year’s symposium details are as follows:
2010 KATA Symposium is scheduled for Saturday, April 17th.
The Art of Being Present: Utilizing Art Therapy Processes to Create Mindful Experiences
The keynote speaker will be Patricia Isis, Ph.D., LMHC, ATR-BC. If you would like to find out more about her exciting work, please visit her website:www.miamiarttherapy.com
The conference will be held in the midst of the rolling Flint Hills of Kansas , at the Camp Wood YMCA in Elmdale, KS . We are thrilled with the opportunity of learning about mindfulness and art therapy in such a breathtaking environment!
(Flyer removed 6-9-10)
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ART THERAPY WORKSHOP IN WICHITA, KS: Details on the next ARTWISDOM workshop (to be held in April 2010) can be found here:
clickforflyer
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WORKSHOP AT ART THERAPY STUDIO IN LAWRENCE, KS: Workshop on Artist Trading Cards will be held at Libby Schmanke’s studio Art and Insight on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. For more information visit the website at:
http://www.artandinsight.com/upcomingevents.html
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IN THE NEWS: Kansas art therapist Charles Anderson was recently featured in an article by Stella Stepney in the AATA newsletter for being honored with the American Art Therapy Association’s Multicultural Leadership Award.
Click here to read the article (scroll to page 12). Congratulations!
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ART THERAPY WORKSHOP IN RAYMORE, MO: ARTWISDOM workshop to be held on January 30, 2010 at the Center for Creative Growth and Healing.
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IMPORTANT! LEGISLATIVE ACTION: Please read below……!! (Posted 10.21.09)
The information attached is an Action Alert message sent to KATA from Christopher Campbell, Director of Public Policy and Advocacy from AATA. It is an effort to help us (local art therapists) to take action in support of recognizing creative arts therapies, including art therapists, in the Senate healthcare bill. Sherri Jacobs (KATA co-chair of the Governmental Action Committee with Amber Conover) asked me (Shelley) to forward this to all KATA members because it looks like a great opportunity to get the ball rolling on legislative action. Sherri and Amber will continue to forward future information as it come in and will help guide us in the direction we need to go.
One way you can help out is to contact your U.S. Senators and urge them to support our legislative request (see attached). Below is a sample letter you can send to your Senators. Please feel free to customize, and add your own anecdotes to make it personal. To find out the names and mailing addresses of your U.S. Senators, go to
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm. CUT AND PASTE AND SEND IT OUT!
Honorable ( )
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator:
As a practicing art therapist and as your constituent, I am writing to urge your support of the inclusion of language that recognizes and promotes the value of the arts in healthcare in the Affordable Health Choices Act being developed by the U.S. Senate.
Arts in healthcare is a diverse field representing over 16,000 medical, arts, and creative arts therapy professionals dedicated to enhancing the healthcare experiences for patients, families and caregivers through activities that range from improving the aesthetics of the physical plants to engaging people in activities that reduce their experience of pain and increase their ability to communicate emotions, to measurable therapeutic outcomes. This rapidly growing field integrates the arts, including literary, performing, music, visual and design into a wide variety of healthcare and community settings for therapeutic, educational and expressive purposes.
Your support matters. Inclusion of language that supports the arts will greatly facilitate our field’s ability to compete for grants to conduct research, partner with government and healthcare institutions to develop new interventions, and keep the patient’s experience the central focus of healthcare.
Thank you for your support of this very important matter.
Sincerely, ( )
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AATA CONFERENCE APPROACHING!: This year’s conference will be in Dallas, Texas from November 18-22. Please go to the AATA website (link can be found on our Links page) for more information. It is a great location for us this year, hope you can make it!
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ART AUCTION TO BENEFIT RAINBOW MENTAL HEALTH: Thursday, October 8, please joing us for an open house at Cafe Augusta in honor of Mental Illness Awareness Week. We are sponsoring this event along with NAMI Heart of American and Rainbow Mental Health Facility. The event is from 4:00-7:00 pm with a keynote speaker at 5:30 pm. Appetizers and drinks will be available for a donation and we will also be holding a silent art auction. Proceeds from the event will benefit mostly Rainbow MHF. Cafe Augusta is located at 12122 W. 87th St. Pkwy in Lenexa.
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FIRST FRIDAYS IN TOPEKA!: Valeo’s annual Creations of Hope exhibit (a juried art show by artists with mental illness) will open Friday, October 2nd at 5:30 pm and run every Tuesday and Friday until late November. Details are:
October 2-November 27, 2009
The Upstage Gallery, 720 Jackson, Topeka, KS
Tuesdays 10:00 am-2:00 pm; Fridays 3:30-6:30 pm or by appt
Can call Cara Weeks for more info at 785-357-0580 x.2138
Through “Creations of Hope” we aim to provide an accessible and empowering opportunity for artist experiencing mental illness to enter the art community. All proceeds go directly to support the participating artists. Additionally, we strive to raise awareness and widen views of mental illness by providing an event that celebrates creativity, strength, and hope.
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ART EXHIBIT: Youthville to share powerful traveling art exhibit, allowing audiences to “Walk a Mile” in a child’s shoes in the child welfare system
Sept. 1 - 30, 2009 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Lobby of the Unified Government City Hall, 701 N. 7th, Kansas City, Kan.
Opening Ceremony: Sept. 1, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. with speakers Mayor Joe Reardon and Youthville CEO Shelley Duncan
Audiences are invited to visit the Youthville Walk a Mile traveling exhibit. Take a moment to experience a powerful showcase of artwork by Youthville’s Psychiatric Residential Treatment kids who have redesigned old shoes to express their stories and experiences in the child welfare system.
“My name is Rickey and I am 11. I have been in Youthvillle for a while. I am here because I was using drugs and getting into trouble with the law and family. My shoe talks about all the times my heart has been broken and the times that I have broken other people’s hearts. I feel trapped a lot by things inside my head and the things that I have done. I hope that I can change while I am here.”
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UPCOMING WORKSHOP: “Expressive Therapy Workshop”
Saturday, October 17, 2009 at Saint Luke’s Northland Hospital
8:30 am –4:30 PM
Featuring art therapist Teresa Zaiger, MA, ATR-BC
This program is designed to help clinicians have a better understanding of the use and integration of Expressive Therapy with other disciplines in the treatment of clients. Full day workshop featuring art therapy, music therapy, dance therapy, and poetry therapy. Eligible for 6.5 contact hours.
Click here for flyer with full registration info: saintlukeworkshop.pdf
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UPCOMING KATA WORKSHOP!: “ALL ABOUT ETHICS”
September 12, 2009 at Emporia State University (Emporia, KS)
9:00 AM –12:00 PMPresenter: Terry Johnston, ATR-BC, LSCSW
The objective of this workshop is to provide an understanding of ethics in relationship to counseling; emphasized is the application of ethical issues in the area of art therapy. This workshop will involve the use of video clips, experiential exercises, power-point presentation and a question and answer session. Every participant will receive a Certificate of Attendance at the end of the workshop for three contact hours. DISCOUNT FOR KATA MEMBERS!
Click here for flyer with full registration info: ethicsworkshop.pdf
More info from Libby Schmanke about the workshop and weekend events in Emporia: More details.pdf
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IN THE NEWS: YouTube feature of Kansas art therapist/author
Click on YouTube.com to view an interview of Nicole Martin, author of Art as an Early Intervention Tool for Children with Autism, by Craig Evans of Autism Hangout.com.
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Art Therapy Workshop in Kansas City: August 8, 2009
Kansas City area art therapist Laura Aube, MS, ATR-BC, LPC will be offering a 6 hour workshop Art Wisdom in collaboration with art therapists Kayra Joy and Tamara Herl on August 8, 2009. A discount is available for art therapy professionals and students if you register by July 18. You can contact Laura at 816-359-1885 or www.creativegrowthandhealing.com for more information.
Click here for brochure with complete information: artwisdom.pdf
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CALL FOR ARTISTS: Submission Deadline August 10, 2009
The CARE program at Valeo Behavioral Health Care is sponsoring the fifth annual ‘Creations of Hope’ art exhibit. This is a juried art exhibit open to all artists experiencing mental illness. The exhibit will be displayed through the months of October and November in celebration of Mental Illness Awareness Week. Selected entries will be exhibited at The Upstage Gallery located in downtown Topeka and will be featured on the ‘First Fridays‘ gallery walk.
Through ‘Creations of Hope’ we aim to provide an accessible and empowering opportunity for artist experiencing mental illness to enter the art community. Additionally we strive to raise awareness and widen views of mental illness in the public by providing an event that celebrates creativity, strength, and hope. Contact Cara Weeks, MA, ATR, at cweeks@valeotopeka.org
Click here for brochure with complete information: creationsofhope.pdf
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Mark Your Calendars! September 24, 2009: http://www.elizabethlayton.com/el_events.htm
The Central Plains Area Agency of Aging and Sedgwick County Department on Aging is thrilled to include an Elizabeth Layton exhibit in their Senior Expo this year. The exhibit is provided to all senior expo attendees (over 3,000 people attend annually) free of charge. The Senior Expo is scheduled for September 24th 2009, 9am-3pm in Wichita, KS at the following locations - Botanica, The Wichita Gardens, Old Cowtown Museum, Exploration Place, and the Wichita Art Museum. Admission to all four locations for adults 55+ and caregivers is free on the day of the event. The location of the Layton Exhibit has not been finalized at this time. We will post further details as they become available., or you can visit our website at www.cpaaa.org.
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2009 Kansas Art Therapy Association Symposium: April 25, 2009
This year’s conference will be held on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at Mid-America Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas (www.mnu.edu). The conference will feature a 6-hour workshop with nationally-renowned art therapist Cathy Malchiodi entitled Art Therapy, Resiliency, and Posttraumatic Growth: Finding Our Way Through Change and Crisis. Please join us a day early for the Friday Night Event, an evening of great food, music, and art-making at ARTichokes in Leawood, Kansas (www.ARTichokeskc.com). Click on the flyer for details. Be sure to take advantage of the pre-registration discount!
(Flyer removed 6-9-10)
You may email Shannon Waters Russell, ATR-BC, LPC with questions at shannon@childabuseprevention.org
