Infantry Family Children on Camp Pendleton Marine Base Experience the First of Its Kind "Art for Healing Day" at the

LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA, May 18 (MARKET WIRE) --
Since November 2008, Art & Creativity for Healing, a non-profit
organization that facilitates fine art classes and workshops for
children, teens and adults suffering from abuse, illness, grief or
stress, has been working with students at San Onofre Elementary School as
part of the "Healing for Heroes and their Families" program.

Initiated in 2008 at Camp Pendleton, the "Healing for Heroes and their
Families" program uses collage, journaling and painting techniques to help
military personnel and their families process feelings associated with the
rigors of military life, including overseas deployments. Earlier this
year, the program was expanded to serve military families that have one
or more family members dealing with the special needs of enlisted men and
women who are working through war-related experiences.

As the school year comes to a close, San Onofre Elementary School has
elected to celebrate the success of the "Healing for Heroes and their
Families" program with a special "Art for Healing Day" on Friday, May 22.

During "Art for Healing Day," all 650 of the school's students are
expected to participate in a school-wide "Sending Love to those Deployed"
drawing project. As part of the project, each child will use color
pencils and markers to create "Sending Love" paper cards that will be
sent to the men and women of Camp Pendleton who are currently deployed
overseas.

"The 'Art for Healing Day' at San Onofre Elementary School will provide
children in Kindergarten through eighth grade an opportunity to interact
with our volunteers and learn more about what it feels like to express
feelings of compassion and care using artistic expression," said Laurie
Zagon, founder/director, Art & Creativity for Healing. "For children who
have already participated in the 'Healing for Heroes and their Families'
program, it is our hope that by creating cards for the men and women who
are serving overseas, each child will be able to expand their use of the
Art for Healing method as a venue for expressing their feelings of fear
and hurt they may be experiencing in their own personal journey."

Recently, in gratitude for Art & Creativity for Healing's service to the
students at San Onofre Elementary, school officials nominated the
organization for the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District's "2009
Community Cornucopia Award." Art & Creativity for Healing will be
presented with the award on Monday, June 1 at 5:30 p.m. at the William H.
Frazier School located at 1835 Gum Tree Lane in Fallbrook.

About Art & Creativity for Healing

Founded in 2000, Art & Creativity for Healing Inc. is a non-profit public
corporation committed to helping children, teens and adults process their
feelings of grief, illness or stress using the venue of painting on
canvas. Art & Creativity for Healing provides free classes taught by
Founder/Director Laurie Zagon and her team of highly qualified
facilitators on-site at hospitals and non-profit community organizations.

Through programs offered in collaboration with more than 35 hospitals,
treatment facilities and non-profit agencies, Art & Creativity for Healing
has facilitated "Art for Healing" workshops more than 22,000 children and
adults in the Southern California region since it was founded.

Art & Creativity for Healing Inc. is located at 26079 Getty Drive in
Laguna Niguel, Calif. For more information, please call (949) 367-1902 or
visit our Website at www.art4healing.org.

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