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Transcript: Ralph Forquera

Importance of art in helping individuals believe they can be healthy

[Forquera:]
We understand that in a city like Seattle the importance of things like art, the importance of things like design, the importance of color, the importance of these things that are inherent in a lot of the cultural orientations of the people that we serve. Again, we have to use those as tools to bring people in, to engage the people, and to hopefully make them feel comfortable enough, again, where we can get them to believe that they can in fact be healthy.