Creative Coping empowers youth and adults to manage adversity and life changes. Whether you experienced injury, illness, or loss, it is possible to learn more and apply coping skills in your life.
Photo: Survivors, artists, and community members came together at the Free Library of Philadelphia to speak, listen, be witnessed, decrease isolation, build resilience, and enhance neighborhoods. Speakers included: Stephanie who lost a child due to gun violence, Reverend Dr. Jewel who speaks about sexual violence, and Garth who shared about his near-death experience on bicycle when a stranger saved his life. Creative Coping sets safe space for people to connect and share from the heart.
Aviva Perlo, MSW, LSW, founded Creative Coping in 2011 to empower youth and adults to manage adversity. As a health educator and social worker for 20 years, programs promote health and wellness while exploring violence prevention and how to build support systems. Programs occur in collaboration with nonprofits, professional development, hospitals, schools, HUD Housing, city government, and more. Aviva has published over 20 articles on loss and resilience in the Huffington Post, Scattergood newsletter, medium.com, Chestnut Hill Local, and more. Aviva studied trauma at Temple University, Council for Relationships, Drexel University, and University of Texas at Austin. She loves to hike and eat guacamole.