Arthropy
Turning trauma into power, healing, and professional growth
kansas city, mo
Oct. 11, 2024
Black Archives of Mid-America
1722 E. 17th Terrace
Kansas City, MO 64108
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nationally recognized experts on trauma and resilience
Founded in 2009, Arthropy’s (formerly known as Poetry for Personal Growth) mission is to use art to show that emotional distress is temporary and transformative. Funded by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Arthropy was the first organization to receive two SAMHSA grants in one year (2016). As the largest recovery movement organization in the United States, Arthropy promotes trauma, mental health, and substance abuse recovery through three main programs:
- career development for sponsored artists/advocates,
- award-winning health care messaging,
- and a peer support program modeled after New York’s Peer Bridgers.
Over the years, Arthropy has expanded its network to Missouri, Colorado, and Illinois, working with various community groups to adapt to changes in mental health care delivery. Arthropy’s initiatives build resiliency, reduce behavioral health stigma, and increase community capacity to prevent mental health crises, helping treatment organizations deliver person-centered services with the consumer voice integral to their workforce.
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Programs
Arthropy has proven that education, advocacy, peer support, and the arts are revolutionary tools that can help peers make sustainable changes in behavioral health care. Our evidence-based programs work towards helping people rebuild themselves, and when people are built up, we are able to build healthy, recovery-oriented communities.
All Arthropy programs ask one very important question: What helps YOU overcome adversity?
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Arts
What if we had a world in which artists had greater power and resources for meaningful, sustainable careers? They can do so with Arthropy’s initiatives in health messaging and advocacy. Arthropy has proven that performance poetry and art are revolutionary tools that can help peers make sustainable changes in behavioral health care. With us, you can build your art career and your community.
Advocacy
At Arthropy, we are dedicated to facilitating community engagement, research, meetings, coalitions, and advocacy efforts. We also train advocates! As an organization, all of our community engagement efforts are focused on creating resilient communities where people can safely recover from trauma, behavioral health issues, and substance abuse. Everyone deserves to live in communities where they can learn, grow, and be heard.
Mental Health
This outreach is done through events and advocacy within health coalitions and other sectors to give community members and health care consumers a voice, as well as education on resources. Our non-clinical peer support specialists and peer recovery coaches deliver education about resilience, health, wellness tools, and resources that aid in trauma reduction and recovery support.
Entrepreneurship
With our organization’s mission always in mind, our sponsored artists present resilience message outreach. Our artists are working each and every day to make a positive impact in three states. Contact us to learn more about our commitment to this cause.
Supporters
Arthropy (formerly Poetry for Personal Growth) is a 501(c)(3) nationally recognized expert on trauma and resilience, incorporated in Wyandotte County, Kansas, and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.