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A team of current and former students from the school's art therapy masters program headed to Louisiana to aid hurricane victims. The students used art as a cathartic process to help Louisiana residents come to grips with their painful memories.

"I'll keep going back as long as they'll have me," said Lesly Van Sloten, who graduated from Loyola in 2006 and works locally with at-risk teenagers.

It was tough at first convincing the residents that art could help them sort out what happened, the women said. They used media such as drawing, painting, construction and photography to get the survivors to confront what they went through.

Check out the rest of Melissa Evans' story.


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