Pattie Kurtz’s brother, Don, was a long-time client of CSA. Don had several psychiatric diagnoses in adulthood, and eventually qualified for disability. Had he lived in southeast Iowa with the rest of his siblings rather than in Des Moines, he might not have had access to many of the different support agencies available in Polk … CSA’s

Standing with eight other students in a warm-lit sun-bleached room, I stared at my progress of a still life composed of wine bottles and cloth draped over a table. I’m crying. I had imagined painting a beautiful, epic piece, full of color with the right proportions- a piece an artist would be proud of. At … Definition of an Artist by Emily Ma