You Can Support These Efforts In The Following Ways

 

How Packing Events Help Heal

“After the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel, I knew that I wanted my Bat Mitzvah project to be connected to helping Israeli children who were affected by the attack. I learned about the the Healing Arts Kits and how they help children deal with the trauma of terrorism. The Healing Arts Kits allowed me to channel my love of art into a meaningful cause. ”
— Sophie W.

Thank You to All Those Who Have Created Emergency Kits

Manhattan Day School, Bernard Zell Jewish Academy, Sophie W., Cameron Levkoff, All Peoples Church, Morgan Muchnick, iTrek, Jenny Josephson, Shevet Tapuach, Hadar Arens, Tamar Simon Buchweitz, The DiLisi Family, Carol Cornell, Safra Center, Dan Shuga, Jill Madson, Stacy Danov

 

Thank You from the Israel Trauma Coalition

 
 
“We found that (the Healing Arts Kits) are an effective treatment and a revolutionary work in preventing PTSD. We saw immediate effects in our Day Care Centers throughout Israel. We know the children under our care to be safer because of this program.” ”
— Hila Stern, Director, WIZO

Packing Events

Packing Events allow you to directly and immediately help Israel’s children. We ship all kit boxes, activity books, and materials to your location of choice. Invite peers, friends, family, and members of your community to come, learn about the situation in Israel, understand the use of art therapy in PTSD prevention, and pack each kit by hand for delivery to Israel. A sensitive and constructive way to include children in the response to the events of 7.10.

Packing Event Specifics

Each packing party will require a minimum of 100 kits and will be done in multiples of 100 kits. All money raised for extra kits will be packed independently by our team. The kits serve 2 children for multiple uses and can serve up to 4 children total. By sponsoring 100 Kits you are reaching 400 Israeli children. In order to host, you must be able to receive Kit materials and be able to send completed Kits to our shipping agent.

Express Solidarity

A Healing Art Kits Art therapist will join when possible to lead discussions. Each Kit comes with a card expressing love and support that you create which is the first thing seen by the children who receive this healing tool.

 

Thank You from Israeli EMTs

“We have had 100% success (with the Healing Arts Kits) and our paramedics continue to request them as a permanent fixture in their equipment.” - Dovie Maisel, Vice President of International Operations, United Hatzalah

MISSION

To save children from the devastating effects of trauma, conflict and crisis through ground-breaking arts-based psychological aid.

ABOUT THE KITS

Created by psychiatrists, therapists, first responders, parents and teachers and based on a combination of cutting-edge science and on the ground experience working with Israeli children living through rocket attacks from Gaza, Artists 4 Israel’s Healing Arts Kits intend to slow or stop the onset of new cases of PTSD. They are an emergency, psychological first aid tool that works through defusing the neurological process that solidifies trauma. During crises, individuals experience new and terrifying sights, sounds, smells, physical sensations and emotional pain. PTSD sets in when a person's brain is unable to process all the stimuli in a safe manner which results in a feedback loop in the mind and memory. The Healing Arts Kits create specific, alternative sensations which create a constructive distraction, stimulate self-healing and, interrupt the feedback loop. Available immediately, the Kits work in the critical first 30 seconds and 30 minutes when traumatic memory is permanently stored. After rigorous review, The Healing Arts Kits have been used and endorsed by many top psychological and educational institutions, including the Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, the Israel Trauma Coalition, United Hatzalah, WIZO and, the Israel Ministry of Education.  

To The Child, It is Simply Art. To Us, It is Science

The Healing Arts Kits are designed by psychiatrists, emergency first responders, art therapists, artists, teachers and parents combining the most recent research and best practices in dance, drama, play and art therapy combined with the input of care-givers and on the ground medical personnel. Each Kit is intuitive to use either by the child alone or is heightened by specific, simple instruction for the adult. The items inside are deceptively simple, while seemingly just play, are specially created by this team to serve all parties affected by the trauma.

Created in Crises
A Product of War Time Resilience

During Operation Protective Edge, Artists 4 Israel and WIZO NY partnered to bring an Emergency, War Time Version of the Healing Arts Kits to the Israeli communities on the border of Gaza. In Kibbutz Alumim and Sa'ad, the children were suffering from hundreds of rocket attacks each day and terror tunnels which made the idea of a "monster under the bed" all too real. Without fear, our Art Therapists visited these neighborhoods, led training workshops with parents and teachers, and distributed over 300 Kits into the schools, homes and bomb shelters.

 

Distributed Globally
A Tool to Aid All Children in Need

After seeing the positive results of the Kits in such a difficult time, the decision was made to apply it to other circumstances. The Kits have since been used in high-crime areas of Brooklyn and Chicago as well as at schools and community centers for children escaping abusive homes. It has been used after fires, car accidents and in all cases where children need protection and healing from trauma.

After the War: When the war ended, the Kits continued to be effective in healing children who still suffered from the conflict. In total, we supplied over 600 Healing Arts Kits to schools, youth villages, day care centers and homes for children in n…

After the War: When the war ended, the Kits continued to be effective in healing children who still suffered from the conflict. In total, we supplied over 600 Healing Arts Kits to schools, youth villages, day care centers and homes for children in need.

“Feelings of fear and anxiety lead to post traumatic stress. Proximity to war creates invisible scars.”
— A special report on the Healing Arts Kits by Al Jazeera. Click Below