“We form an assembly line,\" Chelsea said. \"It's great bonding time for the family.\"
Chelsea's Charity has sent art kits to foster care agencies, families, the homeless and school districts in over 23 states, according to her mother.
Stefanie Pocaro, an art teacher at Rotella Interdistrict Magnet School, which is an arts integration school in Waterbury, Connecticut, received Chelsea's art kits for her classes. Pocaro contacted Chelsea's Charity after seeing a news segment on the work Chelsea had been doing.
Pocaro's pre-K through fifth grade students received 50 art kits from Chelsea during a student pick-up week on June 9. Pocaro gave the kits to student families in need of art supplies.
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Courtesy Stefanie Porcaro
PHOTO: Art kit pickup
\"Chelsea is very much an advocate in her own right. She gives these kids a voice with these art kits,” Pocaro said. “She understands ... that these simple tools (art supplies) can provide us with the ability to communicate our joy, our fear, how it can heal us and mend us, and help us to work out our experiences in life.\"
Art as healing
During the family's self-quarantining amid the COVID-19 pandemic, art has remained Chelsea's outlet, so she knows what a powerful form of therapy it can be for kids. When her fifth grade graduation and summer camp were canceled because of coronavirus, she said she turned to her art.
\"I painted a lot of pictures and drew a lot of new characters,\" Chelsea said. \"Art really helped me get through those disappointing times.\"
Before the pandemic, Candace Phaire said the family would drive the kits to foster agencies, homeless shelters and schools themselves, but since March they have not been able to make in-person deliveries.
\"The lockdown really heightened Chelsea’s motivation to keep making the kits,\" she said.
Chelsea's ambitions are global: to grow her organization to help kids around the country and eventually the world.
\"I want it to become a global organization, have a big headquarters, deliver art kits to every state and afterwards deliver art kits to kids in other countries,\" she said.
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