Educator Professional Development

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.

Founded in 2005, CONTRA-TIEMPO is a bold, multilingual activist dance theater company based in Los Angeles. We create a new physical, visual and sonic vocabulary that collages salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary dance with theater, compelling text, and original music to bring dynamic multi-modal experiences to the concert stage.

POIETO is a creative technology and arts education organization dedicated to expanding access to creative expression, digital literacy, and community wellbeing. Through media arts, sound design, movement, creative coding, and critical AI literacy, POIETO creates learning experiences that connect artistic exploration with technical skills and personal expression.

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.

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.

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

African Soul International is a cultural institution with nearly 3 decades of experience in youth, family and community development through the arts. They integrate traditional cultural experience in modern ways that engage, educate and inform. From high energy presentations, to drum circles of all sizes, their programming will inspire joy and healing for all audiences.

Los Angeles Arts Group (L.A. Arts Group) is committed to excellence in arts education and believes the arts are powerful tools for expression and communication and vital to the development of every child. Our goal is to provide high quality, standards-based arts education for grades K-12 in creative environment that promotes collaboration and respect. Our programs aim to engage students, teachers and the community to provide learning in and through the arts. L.A. Arts Group consists of trained and experienced professional artists in dance, music, theatre and visual arts.

Aman Dance Educators present the Creative World Dance Curriculum, a unique program that teaches students dances from around the world and leads them through creative activities that expand their understanding of their bodies in action as tools for communication. Students will expand their knowledge in geography, history and culture, and gain skills in cooperation, coordination, creativity and rhythm. The curriculum includes dances from Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.

Angels Gate Cultural Center brings art and culture to the community through interactive classes, gallery exhibits of both local and international artists, professional artists’ studios, art education programs in the schools, and cultural events.