On Friday 5 April a group of ten students from primary and high schools across Edinburgh got together to celebrate the end of another successful Art Therapy programme with People Know How.
The students journeyed to Spectrum Arts based in Ocean Terminal. There they learnt about the history of graffiti and received guidance from staff, before gearing up with masks and spray cans to get stuck into creating their own original graffiti. While exercising their creativity, they got to know one another, talking about their experiences and connecting with pupils from other schools.
Watch our video of the outing
This marked the end of another successful Art Therapy programme run by People Know How over the last six months. Working in partnership with Queen Margaret University, Art Therapy is an opportunity for a young person to explore and express their emotions through the process of art making, using art materials to communicate feelings and emotions, and to explore the support they need. Students from Queen Margaret University, supervised and supported by People Know How, provide individual or group sessions offering this therapeutic support.
This is just one of many projects that make up our Positive Transitions service, supporting children, young people and their families in the North East locality of Edinburgh.
Developed from a consultation of over 700 young people, the service began by focusing on the supporting the transition from primary school to high school but has since expanded to also touch on other issues surrounding the lives of children and young people in Edinburgh.
Projects vary from one-to-one and group support and include the accredited Befriending service, Family Support through social work, work with parents, carers and families, Curiosity Club and Arts Therapies.
