When young people experience physical and/or emotional trauma, it becomes difficult for them to express themselves. After seeing a group of former inmates perform theatre and poetry, Deborah Gordon-Gurfinkel developed the "Telling It" program, which helps kids cope with their experience through the visual and performing arts. She, along with fellow counselors Cozine Welch and Kelly Kundrat, talk about what the program seeks to achieve in this week's "On the Ground-Ypsi" with WEMU's Patrick Campion and Concentrate Media's Sarah Rigg.
Resources:
Sarah Rigg's Feature Article: Ypsi-based program partners with formerly incarcerated writers to help youth heal through creativity
The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing
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— Patrick Campion is the WEMU Program Director. You can contact Patrick at 734.487.3363, on twitter @WEMUPC, or email him at pcampion@emich.edu
