We hope to help more children in numerous medical settings throughout the country with your donation.
Children with cancer describe the effects of treatment as exhausting and weakening. Chemotherapy makes them feel sad, tired, and scared, taking a tremendous toll, not only on their physical, but their emotional lives.
“Art provides a nonverbal way for children to express their feelings and traumas. It helps them assert their individuality and prevent their illness from defining who they are,” says Clinical Art Therapist Liz Portuondo, who along with Tania Quintana and Dorian Rosen, founded ArtCares for Kids in 2010 to help children in the Pediatric Oncology and Transplant units at Jackson Memorial’s Holtz Children Hospital.
Using different mediums and art directives, ArtCares volunteers create a positive environment where children affected by challenging, traumatic experiences, and/or life-threatening diseases, can safely express their feelings about the world around them, and provide a welcome diversion from their surroundings.
ArtCares for Kids is a Miami-based nonprofit organization serving children in medical settings dealing with psychological, emotional and physical challenges. Our dedicated members and volunteers understand the benefits of nurturing children through the creative process of art and strive to provide art as a therapeutic and healing tool. We have provided services since 2010 to local hospitals and also in Latin America, such as orphanage in Peru and orthopedic hospital in Columbia.
Organization name
ArtCares for Kids
Mission Category
Arts & Culture
Program Site Locations
All of Miami-Dade County, Key Biscayne, Miami: All Communities, Miami: Virginia Key
Annual Operating Budget
Less than $25,000
Primary Population Served
Youth & Children
Address
240 Crandon Blvd. Suite 108