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Empowerment and Recovery Through Creativity!

PSA Art Awakenings is a psycho social rehabilitation program for adults and youth who are challenged by serious behavioral health issues and mental illnesses. Studios throughout Arizona offer therapeutic programs in a supportive setting to promote mental health, personal growth, vocational training, and physical wellness through the performing and visual arts. Downtown Phoenix, Casa Grande and Tucson Galleries, art exhibits, First Friday and other venues offer artists opportunities to sell their paintings, sculptures, mosaics, jewelry, fine art, music, poetry, and writings to benefit from art sales.
Art Saves Lives!

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Contact Information

Karen D. Puthoff, President 602-393-3155 or karen.puthoff@azpsa.org
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News

  • Recipient of 7th Annual ASU Center for Behavioral Health Policy Leadership in Service Award

  • Services now provided in Yuma

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  • Glendale students completing mural to preserve Sahuaro Ranch’s rich history, January 11, 2010 Arizona Republic Article

    www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2010/01/11/20100111gl-mural0109.html

  • KNXV ABC 15 coverage of Art Awakenings on December 17, 2010

  • Quick Video of mural unveiling at Sahuaro Ranch Historic Park on Saturday November 7, 2009

    Video courtesy of Ed Sharpe, Glendale Daily Planet. www.smecc.org/media/psa_mural_short_1_512.wmv

  • Arizona Republic publishes article about Lori Wilson

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  • The Next Step Studio Opened October 2009

  • The Las Artes Program Expands to Serve Greater Number of Youth – The Glendale Las Artes de Maricopa program has doubled in size and opened a second location respectively in the Maryvale area located @ 4380 N 51st Ave., Phoenix.

  • EXEMPLARY RANKING - PSA Art Awakenings receives “Exemplary Ranking” in recent PSA Behavioral Health Agency CARF Accreditation. Oct. 2009