`Resilience After Trauma`
(WorldNews Health)

CITC`s Recovery Manager Venus Woods is featured in one of a series of murals that are part of a project by artist and UAA Professor Steven Gordon that highlights the connection between trauma and addiction. `Art inspires change because art is always about the things that move the human heart,` reflected Steven Gordon, a painter and adjunct professor at University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). Steven is the creator of Resilience After Trauma, a mural project that paired artists with individuals who have experienced childhood trauma and addiction and are now working to help others overcome addiction. Artists sat with their subjects for over an hour, listening to their stories of recovery and...