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Center Theatre Group, one of the nation’s preeminent arts and cultural organizations, is Los Angeles’ leading not-for-profit theatre company and programs the Mark Taper Forum and the Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.

The Arts for Healing and Justice Network (AHJN) provides structure and coordination for the collaborative work of community-based arts education organizations serving system-impacted youth in Los Angeles County to create alternatives to incarceration, build resiliency and wellness, increase community health, eliminate recidivism, and center arts as a change strategy for young people, communities, and systems

Our mission at Arts & Healing Initiative is to transform lives through the innate power of the arts, guided by mental health practices, to foster healing, connection, and resilience for all. Through community service, free program offerings, virtual trainings, and curriculum manuals, we empower the public to apply mental health-guided arts practices sustainably in their own lives and communities.

ZEAL Co-Op (Zeal Press LLC) is a worker-owned cooperative of teaching artists and creative practitioners in Los Angeles. We bring community-based arts education to children, youth, and families across LA County, working with teaching artists who are rooted in the communities they serve. As part of the county’s Creative Wellbeing program, we use creative practice to support mental health, connection, and wellbeing. We are growing our presence across the city, county and state, we welcome partnerships with schools, community centers, and organizations.

Center for the Empowerment of Families Inc. is a grassroots organization which was founded in 2006 by the late Dr. Sharon Jacques-Rabb, a Clinical Psychologist and Licensed M.F.C.C. , educator, lead pastoral counselor and guest speaker at various conferences and workshops. Dr. Rabb’s purpose was to address the problems of disintegration of family systems.

Rhythm & Truth brings people together through creativity to cultivate connection, resilience, healing, and joy. Founded in 2008 by board-certified music therapist Summer Lall, our multidisciplinary team of creative arts therapists and teaching artists offers music, visual art, dance/movement, drama, and adaptive arts experiences throughout Los Angeles County and virtually throughout the U.S.

Justice for My Sister equips women of color, nonbinary youth, and survivors of violence with trauma-informed filmmaking training, creates career pathways for underrepresented storytellers in TV and film, and advances public education to make the studio system a safer and more equitable place to work.

Drama Education Network provides standards-based curriculum products, teacher training services, and school residencies in arts and literacy for grades PreK-12. Our mission is to empower educators to use creative drama and theatre arts to create an optimal learning environment in any classroom. We specialize in theatre education, literacy development, and arts integration across the curriculum. Our curriculum program, Drama Works!

The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company (US) is a recognized leader in the fields of arts education, mentorship and community building, having been a thriving force in the underserved neighborhoods of Los Angeles County for over two decades. Our participant-driven theatre-arts programs utilize arts education to mitigate the underlying family and community risk factors that threaten the healthy development of the 1,000+ children and adults we serve annually (90% in grades 5-12), including foster youth and incarcerated minors.

Get Lit – Words Ignite fuses classic and spoken word poetry to increase teen literacy and cultivate enthusiastic learners emboldened to inspire social consciousness in diverse communities.