Who’s Using the 64 Faces of Awakening Coloring Book
Please consider donating Coloring Books to the wonderful organizations featured on this page — or to any group or community you feel would truly benefit.
Universal Love Alliance is an organization that trains key religious, community, and cultural leaders on human rights, and provides much-needed support and shelter for vulnerable children, violated women, and members of the frighteningly discriminated against LGBTQI community in Uganda.
These people put their lives on the line every day in order to honor the dignity and sovereignty of all beings. It brings us so much joy knowing that they've been welcoming the Wisdom Keepers with such love and enthusiasm.
"When the people in the Be Happy Practice Club are encouraged to find their favorite picture and describe what qualities they see, everyone lists many positive qualities. Their whole demeanor changes as they examine the faces, because they are now feeling those same qualities. When I encourage everyone to consider that they resonate with the pictures because those very qualities reside within themselves, and reflect their own potential and capacity to expand qualities such as compassion and empathy, loving kindness toward themselves, everyone gets excited like they never knew that was even possible."
～David Scheel, founder of The Be Happy Practice Club, at The St. Vincent De Paul Community Center of Oakland, CA
SCIPP is an inpatient pain program that is geared toward helping individuals with chronic pain decrease their reliance on narcotic medication to manage their condition and to increase their use of non-pharmacologic strategies. Given the intensive nature of this Programs, The 64 Faces of Awakening Coloring Books will be used by patients to promote a sense of calm, and as a means of creative expression.
Send donated Coloring Books to:
Attn: Ravi Prasad, PhD, Stanford University Medical Center
430 Broadway Street, Pavilion C, MC 6343, Redwood City, CA 94063
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services address-ing both emergency and long-term needs, they help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
Send donated Coloring Books to:
N Street Village
1333 N Street, NW |Washington, DC 20005
The Family Resource & Information Center supports patients and families by providing resources to help cope with hospitalization, health and condition information. Caregivers at the Center appreciate the depth of these coloring books and are plan to use them as a healing and creative complement to the many relaxation techniques they use with the families.
Send donated Coloring Books to:
Attn: Artist in Residence
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
747 - 52nd Street, Oakland, CA 94609
Interface Children & Family Services provides 24 hour safety net for 27,999 local children and families in crisis. Their pioneering work includes stopping family violence and child abuse, sheltering homeless teens and teaching struggling parents the skills they need to succeed. They have found that all youth that come into the shelter have such a creative mind and no outlet to express their feelings or heal from their often traumatic experiences. They are finding these emotionally-supportive coloring books to be highly beneficial.
Send donated Coloring Books to:
Interface Children and Family Services
Attn: Melissa Perezchica-Ramirez
4001 Mission Oaks Blvd, Camarillo, CA 93012
The mission of the Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center is to provide recreation, vocational and educational opportunities for people with disabilities through programs and services that encourage self-expression, promote personal achievement, and lead to greater independence. The 64 Faces of Awakening Coloring Books are being used in support of this Center's vision: a stronger community providing opportunity and respect, embracing diversity, and inspiring people with disabilities to live a full life.
Please visit the website to find out if they are currently accepting in kind donations.
St. Vincent DePaul Community Center serves the Oakland downtown area's homeless as well as nonworking and working poor. The Happiness Practice Group aims to encourage, empower and awaken resilience, self-efficacy and flourishing in the community by offering juggling instruction, drawing, and the opportunity to color in (and reflect upon) the beautiful 64 Faces of Awakening Coloring Book.
Send donated Coloring Books to:
SVDP Community Center
Attn: David Scheel & The Be Happy Practice Club
2272 San Pablo Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
CASA of Los Angeles improves the lives of children in the dependency system by pairing them with trained volunteer advocates. CASA alleviates the feelings of abandonment and alienation that scar these young lives by harnessing the compassion and generosity of caring adults who can and do have an enormous impact on the development of the child at all ages. The 64 Faces of Awakening Coloring Books will be used to serve the children assigned to CASA, many of whom have learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and sig-nificant emotional and mental health problems.
Send donated Coloring Books to:
Attn: Adriana Lopez: Senior Program Coordinator, CASA of Los Angeles
Edmund D. Edelman Children's Court, 201 Centre Plaza Drive, Suite 1100,
Monterey Park, CA 91754
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