New Haven
Art Helps Clients Cope
by | Sep 25, 2024 10:35 am
Posted to: Visual Art
Brian Slattery photo
One of the many artworks on display at the first ever show hosted by a Legion Avenue mental health, addiction, and homelessness services nonprofit.
The pill bottles hang suspended in the air, a testament to their ubiquity and the damage they cause. Behind them are arrayed a series of facts and statistics about drug overdoses. Over 1,000 people die from them in Connecticut every year. Since 1999, almost 1 million have died nationwide, with opioids accounting for two-thirds of those deaths.
Sarah, a client of Continuum of Care, made the piece to commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day, on August 31, tied to an event with Musical Intervention on the Green.“There were a lot of people looking for resources to help,” she said, after“mental health crises that they had.” Sarah’s piece now hangs alongside the work of many others in Continuum of Care’s first art show, running now for a month at the organization’s headquarters on Legion Avenue.
