VELNONART TRANSFORMATIVE HEALTH
Arts-based community health.
Who we are
VelNonArt Transformative Health (VTH), is a community and arts-based 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation that provides education, overdose prevention training and services, mental health support, medication assisted treatment (MAT), intensive case management, and re-entry services to individuals and organizations around Los Angeles County.
We’re working to listen, understand, and apply an intersectional approach to community health.
We provide education and prevention services through Expressive Arts to youth and supportive services for other underserved communities from a whole person lens.
Through ongoing feedback and perspectives from the populations we serve, support and guidance from people with lived experience, and evidence-based strategies we’re working to create innovative, holistic, and transformative services.
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
(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.
Our Services
Empowering communities through education, support, and innovative approaches to wellness.
Education & Training
Case Management & Re-entry
Medication Assisted Treatment
Employment Training & Job Readiness
Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention
Expressive
Arts
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'
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.
Make a Difference Today
Every donation fuels transformative change, empowering youth and marginalized individuals through compassion, creativity, and evidence-based care.