Clean and Sober Streets Arts Program began in 1989 with Ruth Stenstrom, ATR-BC, and a small grant from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Ruth worked hard to attain many grants to support the arts program over the years. Although technically retired, Ruth continues to provide art therapy services and often shows up on a Sunday to take clients to the museums.

The arts program continues to evolve as an integral part of our therapeutic work at CSS.

• The Martin Luther King Memorial Library
• The Children’s National Medical Center
• The Congressional offices of Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton
• Ingleside at Rock Creek

• Clean & Sober Streets, Inc.
• Federal City Recovery residences
• American Art Therapy Association National Conference
• National Geographic Holiday Craft Fair

In partnership with the George Washington University Graduate Program in Art Therapy, 28 art therapy interns under the guidance of Ruth Stenstrom, ATR-BC, have received training and assisted the program since 2002.

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