Velnonart Transformative Health

VELNONART TRANSFORMATIVE HEALTH

Arts-based community health.

Creating transformative social change through compassion, authenticity, and intersectional approaches to care for youth and underserved communities throughout Los Angeles County.

Poetic Freedom as True Freedom Workshop

(2025) R.A.P. Ferreira facilitating a 6-week Expressive Arts workshop focused on 'uncovering poetic freedom from lived experience while developing an eye and an ear for the lyric in our lives'

Out in the community

Brief video highlighting our work in and around various communities in the San Fernando and Antelope Valleys of Los Angeles County.

Featuring a custom track by R.A.P. Ferreira

Previous funding - Expressive arts

HEAR US - Health Equity in Access to Behavioral Health Recovery Services

(2024-2025) VelNonArt is pleased to share that the California Department of Health Care Services has awarded us funding for the Health Equity in Access to Behavioral Health Recovery Services (HEAR US) Phase 2 funding opportunity. Through this funding and the project period, we will work to use our unique, innovative, and expressive arts programming and therapeutic modality to increase access to mental health services for underserved and underrepresented communities and individuals throughout Los Angeles County. We recognize that countless individuals within the county are unable to access the most basic mental health services they often need to function daily. Through the HEAR US project, we aim to address and help remove the health disparities that function as barriers to care.

Who we are

VelNonArt Transformative Health (VTH), is a community and arts-based 501(c)3 providing education, overdose prevention training, mental health support, medication assisted treatment (MAT), intensive case management, and re-entry services to individuals and organizations in and around Los Angeles County. We are focused on being part of a paradigmatic shift by working to listen, understand, and apply an intersectional approach to community health.

We provide education and prevention services to youth and other underserved communities.

Our team is made up of passionate and dedicated professionals who bring a range of skills and experiences to our work. We lean on the support and guidance from people with lived experiences as we work to create innovative services and disseminate appropriate educational materials. We work to promote evidence-based strategies that prioritize the health and well-being marginalized individuals.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide low barrier, holistic, community health services through a trauma informed and intersectional approach to care. We strive to achieve our goals of transformative change through compassion, art, and creativity, while simultaneously working to address and eradicate health inequities. We work to provide services and advocate for underserved communities, youth, and other marginalized populations.