Art Circles: An Outlet for Traumatized Children
Helping youth express themselves after traumatic experiences... Read more.
Howie Dotson is an interfaith chaplain and art therapist in the Twin Cities. He is one of the chaplains at Gillette Children's & Regions Hospital in St Paul and the founder of Howie's Art Circles, a new non profit being established to train and deploy psych-social volunteers to help nurture and support refugee children fleeing conflict zones (Ukraine & Syria). Howie has served as a missionary in South Africa, Kenya and Bahrain. As a chaplain/art therapist, he has provided art circles for Syrian refugee children in Beirut, Lebanon and Amman, Jordan and art circles for Ukrainian children in Warsaw, Poland and Lviv, Ukraine.
