How To: Create a Vision Board for Those At-Risk or Recovering

A vision board is visual artwork that represents a person's goals. Help at-risk adults, teens or children in school, at shelters, or in the community keep motivated to graduate, land that job, or achieve any other form of improvement. Art skills are helpful, but not required.

1. Determine where you want to lead your workshop.
   • Contact a local homeless or family shelter through Shelter Listings or Homeless Shelter Directory.
   • Reach out to a local substance abuse treatment center.
   • Call local schools that can connect you with at-risk students.
   • Talk with a school club that deals with a cause, such as a GSA or a positive mental health club.
2. Collect art supplies. Your goal is to collect:
   • Scissors
   • Blank papers (colored or white) and Posterboards
   • Glue, tape, or rubber cement
   • Markers or colored pencils
   • Magazines and Newspapers
3. Ask the audience you are leading to think of a goal. What do they want in the coming months? Do they want to find a job? Study for a test?
4. Make a collage.

Using the art supplies and magazines/newspapers, each person should create a work of art representing that goal.

• To encourage teamwork and equality, you should make one in the session as well.