Art as Healing : Yayaporvida.org

Yaya Por Vida is a local nonprofit that uses art to connect the community in the areas of

overdose prevention, awareness, substance use recovery, and harm reduction. Click the link here to donate today: yayaporvida.org

 

Yaya Por Vida holds a monthly outreach for the houseless in the areas of Overtown and Miami Downtown. During this outreach, we not only provide food, harm reduction kits, resources, and Narcan with training but also incorporate our Art as Healing sessions. Our houseless rarely (if at all) have direct access to healing-based resources where the programming is created to meet them where they are. Substance use disorder compiled with other co-occurring mental illnesses is one of many challenges that our houseless could be facing as a barrier to housing. Through relationship building and bonds built with our houseless friends, we found out that bringing much-needed resources to them beyond feeding and harm reduction items helped to take them to the next step in recovery.