While leading an art therapy workshop, Sarah Falk taught young girls how to make vision boards and prayer boxes — helping them set boundaries and build self-esteem with an activity called “creating your own Garden of Eden.”
She couldn’t have expected her nonprofit, Spirit Led Art Therapy, would soon place her under the microscope of a scathing state audit.
Falk’s organization was one of two county grant recipients mentioned by name in a report released by the Florida Department of Government Efficiency Jan. 28. The state labeled her $2,500 in grants as excessive spending with minimal oversight on the county’s part…