Creative Alternatives of New York honors Sandra Bloom

Creative Alternatives of New York, celebrating the use of theater to help New York’s most vulnerable children and adults, honored Dr. Sandra Bloom, creator of the Sanctuary Model® of trauma informed care and Co-Director of the Center for Nonviolence & Social Justice at Drexel University, at this year’s annual gala, Broadway at the Boathouse…Encore. The event was held at New York City's Loeb Central Park Boathouse and featured performances by Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes (of the current revival of Promises, Promises).
 

For over 25 years, Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY) has been helping children and adults across the New York Metropolitan area whose lives have been fragmented by trauma and mental health challenges by using the art of theatre as a therapeutic tool – helping them to imagine and envision new possibilities and discover their potential for change. Working in partnership with leading social service organizations and health care institutions, CANY provides approximately 1,400 therapeutic theater groups annually in residential centers for children, special schools, psychiatric care facilities, domestic violence safe shelters and community centers serving at risk youth.

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