APP among the Awardees for Round 2 of the Wisconsin Medicaid HCBS Grant have been selected $12 Million Awarded to 90 Applicants Across Wisconsin. I believe we are the only arts project! Here is what they wrote:
“Congratulations on your recent grant award as part of the American Rescue Plan Act Home and Community-Based Services Grant Initiative. We will be featuring success stories about our grants on our Department of Health Services website. Your application had innovative ideas that we want to highlight for our audiences.
In partnership with the managed care organization Community Care, Inc., this project will offer the Poetry for Life program. This participatory arts program helps older adults and people living with dementia create and perform poems, stories, and songs. Poetry parties at select locations, home visits, and arts support calls will bring creative programming right to participants and families.”Poetry on Wheels
Super excited to announce that St. Peters Cultural Arts Centre, Aging Ahead, St. Peters Meals on Wheels and Poetry for Life are presenting: Poetry on Wheels! This pilot project that launched on July 21st, 2021 and was completed in Sept. 2022. We brought poetry to the participants of the Meals on Wheels program in St. Peters, Missouri. Partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
This page will host a series of inspirational poetry videos to help people create and perform poems.
Upon getting his double vaccination, in April, poet Gary Glazner has traveled almost non-stop to among other places a Maryland beach; Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Baltimore; California where his brother recites poetry while sitting in a tree, and a Cubs Game at Wriggly Field to sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” Check back as we release weekly videos.
Click here for all the videos http://www.alzpoetry.com/poetry-on-wheels