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What happened after Davis stopped her consistent weekly Art therapy routine in Newtown, CT and what is happening now?

Prior to her departure she worked ongoing with Newtown community members applying for a Department of Justice grant, and therefore wrote and contributed a specific request to ensure two full time Art therapy positions, one full time music therapy position, and one full time play therapist position for the community at the Resiliency Center of Newtown. This grant was funded in the Summer of 2014 as Davis (then using her maiden name, Willcox) ended her work, and most of the clients who chose to work with her transferred to build or expand therapeutic relationships with the Art therapy clinicians she had trained.

Emerald Sketch A.R.T., Inc. ("ES ART") was established after the Emerald Sketch, LLC (the program that functioned as the bridge program from March 2013-August, 2014 in Sandy Hook).  ES ART differs from the LLC in that it is designed to model the effectiveness of the first Emerald Sketch program and deploy trained clinicians to devastated regions across America.  ES ART provides educational outreach and assessment services for members of affected populations, as well as training and supervision for clinicians working in communities impacted by disaster. 

It's time to progress and engage the actual process of providing mental health services immediately after every devastating disaster, whether natural or man-made.  The effectiveness of the Emerald Sketch exists in Davis' immediate ability as a licensed professional counselor and Board Certified Art therapist to bill a fund set up by the Lions Foundation of Newtown sepcifically for the mental health needs of the devastated families. This is rare.  No other community has seemed to set up such a fund so immediately, to our knowledge.  

In which case, we stand prepared to expand our programming.  New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and many remote regions of the United States all have the Creative Arts therapists available for preparedness training and readiness clearance to respond when community upsets occur.  As we reach a milestone, much of the Funding will begin to go directly to clinical response time nationwide.  Any donor over $500 can specify which program they would like to support. 

Current response projects through previous include Migrant Child Crisis, California Fires, Chicago Gun Violence, Houston/Sante Fe, Texas Tragedies, Emmanual AME Church tragedy in Charleston, SC.  Davis teaches Creative Arts therapists across the nation loving New York City, Philadlelphia, and one upcoming in London, England at the inagural British Association of Art therapists International Conference.     

Two ongoing funding projects include art materials and educational resources for migrant children being fostered in New York City at Rising Ground, and Art therapy and Music therapy in Santa Fe, Texas, where a large numbers of children have been devastated by both Hurricane Irma and a High School massacre.

Before Davis' repsonded for Newtown, CT her expertise was marked by her developing an Art therapy Trauma program at the Therapetic Nursery at the Children's Crisis Treatment Center in Phialdelphia, Pa, directing an outpatient program in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, and providing Art therapy on numerous psychatric units for patients of all ages at Albert Einstein Medical Center.