Healing Through Art: Creative Therapies at Rikers Island

Forget what you know about jail-based health care. NYC Health + Hospitals’ Creative Arts Therapy program on Rikers Island is rewriting the rules on how healing happens for people in the City’s custody. In this episode of The Remedy, Dr. Michael Shen sits down with Dr. Barbara Bethea, Director of Correctional Health Services Creative Arts Therapy, and music therapist Jeff Angell to explore how poetry, music, dance, and drama are providing individuals with new language for hope, self-discovery, and healing.Learn how licensed Creative Arts therapists use intentional, trauma-informed arts interventions to spark connection for individuals with serious mental illnesses and histories of substance use. Listen in on a music therapy session, hear inspiring patient stories, and discover the program’s impact, from the dayroom at Rikers Island to the stage at Carnegie Hall.Is creative arts therapy the key to long-term healing? Don’t miss this episode’s honest insights, poetry and music from patients at Rikers Island, and groundbreaking approaches to jail-based care.Tune in now.Follow UsTwitter @NYCHealthSystemFacebook @NYCHealthSystemInstagram @NYCHealthSystemLinkedIn @NYC Health + Hospitals YouTube @NYCHealthSystem Presented by NYC Health + Hospitalswww.NYCHealthAndHospitals.org Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.