colorful art piece for CFI Black History Month event

CFI’s Adult Day Services Honors Black History Month Through Music, Art Programming

CFI’s Life Services and Brain Health Adult Day Services programming includes educational and interactive activities, known as tracs, every day of the week. These tracs include pet, horticulture, art, and music therapy, fitness classes, sensory experiences, nutrition and cooking opportunities, community integrated outings, multicultural and seasonal activities, and more. Tracs are designed to create an environment of success for the clients and help them achieve their goals. Often, tracs are ways clients can honor different cultural events, learn about current events and celebrate diverse cultures.

During the month of February, The Day Services team and clients have been honoring Black History Month through music and art therapy and makerspace tracs. Through music therapy tracs, clients learn about influential Black musicians by viewing documentaries, listening to music, as well as playing instruments and singing in a choir. Additionally, a group of clients attended a Black History Month Event Program at Curative, which featured performers, speakers, games and traditional recipes.

During art therapy, our case manager featured several Black artists as inspiration, allowing clients to learn about the history and influence of these artists while expressing creativity, gaining confidence, and finding emotional stability.

Caption: Works by notable Black artists Charles McGee and Ed Johnetta Miller provided inspiration. For McGee's sculptural work, clients watched a short video about the artist before creating their own paper sculptures. For Miller's collaborative quilt piece, clients used different types of paper with various patterns to recreate a quilt-like display.

About Day Services Art Therapy

Art therapy is an essential part of CFI’s Day Services programming, offering a scaffolded approach to set clients up for success. Clients work towards personal goals that are tracked daily, and art therapy helps address communication needs, mood regulation, neurological concerns, and more. Creative expression fosters emotional stability, self-regulation, and confidence.

About CFI’s Adult Day Services: Life Services and Brain Health Day Program

CFI’s Adult Day Services, also known as LIFE (Leisure, Inclusion, Fun and Employment), offers a range of experiences and opportunities that help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities increase their independent living skills, improve health and well-being, prepare for employment (if that’s their goal), socialize, and be an active part of the community.

CFI’s Brain Health program helps people who are recovering from a brain injury, stroke or neurological condition get the rehabilitation help they need and build skills to help them live their best lives.