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Multicultural Peer Support
The Center's artists at the Portland Museum of Art in January 2003
The Multicultural Peer Support Program
continues to grow. Since 1999 we have worked with Riverton
Elementary School in Portland. In 2002, The Center reached out to add
Lincoln Middle School to our existing program. Today the program now serves over
forty children from eight countries each year. The peer groups provide support to
children who have relocated to the Portland area from war torn countries and
have experienced trauma and loss. The program has an artwork and creative play
focus.
In 2003 the children from the Multicultural
Program produced forty-one pieces of artwork which were exhibited at Portland Museum of
Art under the title “Changing
Worlds” as part of a collaborative project with the PMA in conjunction with
the exhibition “Migrations: Humanity in Transition” photographs by
Sebastiao Salgado. Several thousand museum patrons viewed the exhibit.
For more information regarding the Multicultural Program, please contact
Jodie Lane.
For volunteer information click here
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