About — Creative Coping

Creative Coping empowers youth and adults to manage adversity and life changes. Whether you have experienced injury, illness, or loss, it is possible to apply coping skills in your life. You may not be able to fix it all, but you can learn tools to make life more manageable.

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 how to build support systems. Aviva has presented in collaboration with nonprofits, professional development, hospitals, schools, HUD Housing, city government, and more. Publications on loss and resilience have appeared in the Huffington Post, Scattergood newsletter, medium.com, Chestnut Hill Local, and more. Aviva studied trauma at Temple University, Council for Relationships Transcending Trauma Project, Drexel University, and University of Texas at Austin.