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CreatiVets

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1123 12th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203

EIN Number: 46-3617663

contact information

Phone: 888-585-3799

Hours: Closed

Mon - Fri 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM (EST)

Sat Closed

Sun Closed

Website: http://creativets.org

Email: info@creativets.org

NTEE Code: W30: Military & Veterans Organizations

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MISSION - WHAT WE DO

CreatiVets’ mission is to provide combat disabled veterans with the opportunity to use art, music, and creative writing to address the psychological and emotional needs that arise from combat-related trauma. Our goal is to empower veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury with tools they can use for the rest of their lives to combat stress, depression and other side effects of war.

VISION - GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS

Our ultimate goal is to end veteran suicide. Currently, 70% of veterans that commit suicide do not reach out for help. So, we are developing unique ways to reach veterans where they are at. We are releasing veteran created music and you can find it anywhere you stream music. Also, if you have Amazon Music you can say "Alexa, play music by veterans" and CreatiVets music will play. We also have a portrait series art exhibit installation at various airports throughout the country to hopefully find veterans as they are traveling.

SERVICES - HOW WE DO IT

CreatiVets offers art and music programs that are 100% free to veteran participants. Our art programs are hosted at some of the best art schools in the country and our songwriting programs are hosted in Nashville, TN backstage at the Grand Ole Opry. We offer these "bucket list items" to outweigh the veterans anxiety and depression with excitement. Many veterans isolate themselves and won't attend programs, but once they hear everything they get to do in our programs they want to attend. We focus on "storytelling through the arts" so that veterans can put their trauma in their art form where it can live, instead of bottling it up inside of them.