The Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall and the Van Wezel Foundation highlighted an ongoing collaboration with Resilient Retreat, a not-for-profit organization utilizing innovative arts-based approaches to help those impacted by trauma. The foundation is providing funding for these community-based program through the generosity of its donors.

Through this collaboration, Van Wezel teaching artists, who are professionally trained in therapeutic arts practices and arts-based intervention, alongside Resilient Retreat’s certified trauma professionals, lead first responders and helping professionals in the creative process to address burnout, as well as vicarious trauma.