The students who submitted work to ARTifacts had access to a "first aid kit" of creativity to assist in their recovery. What does this work mean about the young artists and writers included? How did the creative process help them in their recovery? A group of interested adults reviewed the work. They include mental health care practitioners, an artist and a writer.

B.J. Adler
Executive Director
Alliance for Young Artists & Writers

	Dr. Larry Aber, developmental psychologist, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and Director of Columbia's Project on Children and War
	Dr. Ted Becker, psychiatrist, Manhattan
	Martha Ferguson, teacher, Martin Van Buren High School, Queens
	Dr. Patti Feuereisen, clinical psychologist, Brooklyn
	Esmeralda Santiago, author, Katonah, NY
	Kit White, artist, teacher and juror for The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
	Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University