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CARES: Partnering with a Dynamic Site
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The Child and Family Institute at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals features a unique adolescent day program: the Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service (CARES). CANY is excited not only to be working with CARES again but to be expanding our program there. This year we are providing drama therapy as part of the group therapy curriculum offerings at CARES. We will be running two groups each week.
CARES provides a safe, therapeutic school environment for New York City public high school students with emotional and behavioral difficulties or alcohol and drug addictions that often stem from childhood trauma. CARES provides both educational and therapeutic components and group therapy sessions as part of the daily learning curriculum at CARES. Every student is assigned to a particular group schedule.
"This is such a wonderful program," says Meredith Dean, LCAT, RDT, CASAC-T, CANY group co-leader at CARES. "The teens, some of whom have had significant trauma in their lives, are smart, savvy, and most importantly, brave. When the students commit to the group process, they prove that they have the capacity for growth and are able to reach their goals. Even though our pilot group started out as a fractured one, they became a cohesive unit and truly supported one another. They worked hard to break down preconceived notions of themselves and of each other and used their imaginations to take on roles that may have seemed foreign to them in the past. It's fun and meaningful to work with the CARES students and in a therapeutic school-based environment that supports the creative arts. This Fall, I look forward to continuing our work with the two new groups at CARES."
It is an honor for us to be working with such a dedicated site with amazing students and staff. We are excited to have CARES as a program partner and look forward to the year ahead.
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If you're interested in learning more about our work with at-risk youth, visit www.cany.org or check out the photos on Facebook.
Learn more about the CARES program.
(photo credit: Cathryn Lynne Photography)
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Register Today for An Introduction to Drama Therapy
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CANY's one day drama therapy training workshops are back this Fall!
An Introduction to Drama Therapy will be held on Saturday, October 29th (for Artists) and on Sunday, December 4th (for Mental Health Professionals).
Six (6) CEUs from the NADT will be given for this one day workshop. Contact CANY for CEU information pertaining to your particular discipline. To read the complete description and fee structure, to print a flyer, to register visit www.cany.org.
Check out the playlist on CANY's YouTube Channel to see what other participants have to say about our training programs.
(Photo credit: Cathryn Lynne Photography)
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CANY Welcomes our First Occupational Therapy Intern
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As many of our E-News readers know, CANY hosts drama therapy interns year-round. This fall, however, an occupational therapist has joined the ranks. Dylan Shirek (pictured left) is an occupational therapy (OT) student from Creighton University's School of Pharmacy and Health Professions in Omaha, Nebraska. He is with us at CANY completing his professional rotation before he graduates in December with a Bachelor of Science in Health Science and a Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD).
"I am very excited to be here learning about and experiencing drama therapy groups first-hand from such experts in the field," says Shirek, "and I know I have an abundance of knowledge to gain." Shirek has done fieldwork at skilled nursing facilities and neuro-surgery units and his studies have taken him to every time zone in the United States. So, as we ask all our interns, why come to CANY?
Shirek is currently completing a 16-week self-directed Capstone project in which he takes the information that he learned over the past three years as an OTD student and analyzes a specific area of OT practice. "Having participated in theater in both high school and college, I am very interested in learning if and how theater can be incorporated into occupational therapy practice," notes Shirek, who was destined to join us at CANY. To continue reading this article, click here.
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CANY Announces Ann D. Gross as Board President
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We are proud to announce that Ann D. Gross
(pictured left)
will now serve as the President of the CANY Board of Directors.
All of us at CANY wish Ann a successful year in her new role.
Joe Shugart and Jonathan Grebinar continue serving our community in their roles as Board Treasurer and Secretary respectively. And Dick Latessa will serve as Board Honorary Chair and keep our always important connection to the Broadway community. The 2011-2012 Board of Directors also includes Elizabeth Goldstein, Ellen Kealy (Chair Emeritus), Jane Klemmer, David McCorkle, Betty Morningstar, Cheryl Rosario, Susan Sarandon, Ronald Tamler and Zena Tamler. |
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