Organizations Filed Purposes:
Promote mental wellness by creating space for young people to learn and connect through art and media. We work in colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Canada, leveraging the arts to eliminate the stigma around mental illness.
Movies for Mental Health and Movies for Mental Health Online: Hosted by colleges and universities throughout the U.S., Movies for Mental Health is a two-hour workshop where students watch three films from OLIVE (AWI's diverse Online Library for Interactive Video and Engagement), discuss them, and then hear from a panel of mental health resources. Through film, these workshops encourage reflective dialogue around often taboo topics related to mental health and proactive steps to seeking support. These workshops aim to create an open and inclusive environment. During the 2020 fiscal year, AWI hosted 48 Movies for Mental Health workshops in person, in CA, CT, MD, NJ, NM, NY, OH, and PA. 2,847 students were served through this program. In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Movies for Mental Health was moved online in March 2020 and updated to achieve similar outcomes in a new format. AWI completed the semester online, with 19 additional workshops serving an additional 926 people.
Voices With Impact: Art With Impact partnered with the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC) and the California Institute of Contemporary Arts (CICA) for our second year of Voices With Impact. This year-long program was designed toidentify top emerging filmmakers, ready to tell the stories that arent being heard, and provide them with the support they need to create original short films about underrepresented mental health issues. Approximately 100 filmmakers submitted proposals to create short films about mental health specific to LGBTQIA+ people, and mental health issues that result from the culture of masculinity. A dedicated group of judges, comprised of mental health professionals, professional filmmakers, and mental health subject matter experts, reviewed the proposals and identified the five filmmakers in each category with the strongest proposals. The 10 filmmakers selected by the judges each received $5,000 production grants to support the creation of their short films. In the following three months, they wrote, cast, filmed, edited, finished, and delivered beautiful, impactful, five-minute films. In June 2020 AWI hosted an online premiere followed by a week of twelve interactive, educational sessions. Approximately 3,200 people participated throughout the week-long event.
Our Bodies, Our Minds: Our Bodies, Our Minds (OBOM) is a two-hour workshop that uses theater and embodied activities to explore the mental health impacts of sexual violence on survivors, and those who support survivors. The workshop uses interactive discussion, theater activities, three original monologues, embodied exercises, and improvised scene studies to help students step in and out of the experiences of survivors and those who support survivors. The activities are designed to meet people where they are; participants dont have to have any theater background, or direct connection to sexual violence, to engage in or benefit from the workshop. In 2019-20 13 colleges and universities offered this program, serving 788 students in three states.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Cary Mcqueen | President & ED | 40 | $46,000 |
| Joseph Kumph | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Dawn Mcguire | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
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