Author: Good Grief – MacKillop Family Services
Location: North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Funding Body: ?
Description: Stormbirds is a program designed for children and youth to process the effects of experiencing a natural disaster in a safe and creative atmosphere delivered over four sessions.
Author: Rita Seethaler and NSF Consulting (Natalie Fisher)
Location: Marysville, Shire of Murrindindi, Victoria, Australia
Funding Body: Regional Arts Victoria – Arts Recovery Quick Response Grant
Description: Local regional musician engages the community of Marysville post Victorian Fires 2009 in a Steel Pan Band. This project was such a success that it still runs today.
Author: Creative Resilience Alliance and NSF Consulting (Natalie Fisher)
Location: This case study was created as part of an evaluation of the Creative Recovery Pilot Project for Arts Queensland. It illustrates the power of creative education and its ability to help children overcome their fear of rain, following the floods in Queensland’s Lockyer Valley in 2011, Lockyer Valley Regional Council, Queensland, Australia
Funding Body: Arts Queensland and Australia Council for the Arts
Description: Primary School and Artists create a claymation to develop positive relationship to rain and the water cycle post Queensland Floods 2011 to overcome student absentism.
Author(s): CFA Survive and Thrive Program, Strathewen Fire Brigade and Strathewen Primary School
Location: Authors Creek, Nillumbik Shire Council, Victoria, Australia
Funding Body: Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal
Description: This bushfire preparedness message is a joint project of the Strathewen Primary School, Arthurs Creek & Strathewen CFA. It is a claymation video made by the students of Strathewen Primary School, and is aimed at children and adults.
Further information: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-29/strathewen-children-bushfire-education-program/11459508
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