HAI Programs for Healing & Growth in NYC Schools

HAI has contracts in several program areas with the New York City Department of Education. Services to NYC schools include a group discount ticket service; hands-on arts workshops for students; professional development assisting teachers in using the arts in their general curriculum; youth leadership workshops; theatrical performances addressing important youth topics for student audiences; and professional development for educators and school administrative personnel, which uses role-play and other theatrical techniques to explore ways to address crucial topics with their students and each other.

Theatrical Productions
Utilizes performance and interactive role-play to address conflict resolution, bullying, peer pressure and other issues. Theater performance pieces include Respect, Peace by Peace, and Take Ya Time.

Professional Development for Educators
HAI offers two unique professional development services. One enables educators to gain skills to
use the arts in their general classroom curriculum. The other provides educators with strategies to aid
them in discussions with their students about sensitive issues. The latter uses role play, whereby HAI's actor facilitators and peer educators dramatize scenarios in which educators participate and acquire techniques to better relate to and help their students.

Arts Workshops
Provides hands-on participation for students in visual and media arts, music, dance and drama. HAI works with all grades and abilities, including special education.

CASA
(Cultural After School Adventures)
Provides cultural programming to three out-of-school-time programs run by F E G S Health & Human Services System.

Live Performances
Presents a wide variety of cultural presentations schools throughout the metropolitan area.

Parents as Arts Partners
Provides arts workshops for parents with their children.

Above: Image by Laura Wise

Youth Leadership Workshops
Utilizes role play led by HAI-trained professional actors to assist
students in developing skills to cope with peer pressures.

NYSCA Arts-in-Education Animation Workshops
Teaches special education students media arts at Linden Hill School, which serves students in residential treatment at Hawthorne Cedar Knowles Center, and at P811M, which serves students in the Adolescent Treatment Program of Bellevue Hospital.

Group Ticket Sales
Enables school groups to purchase tickets to Broadway and Off Broadway plays and other cultural events. In the first week of May alone, 1,874 NYC schoolchildren attended a total of 41 performances, including The Color Purple and Ailey II.