Program Initiative: Health & Wellness / Community Voices
Project Description: The Partners That Heal program exists to create an outlet to help ease the tension, nervousness, and fear that an individual and/or family experiences while receiving care for a prolonged period of time. By using creative drama techniques such as story drama, improvisation, puppetry, as well as music, dance and comedy, actors create a fun and engaging experience. While working with children, actors may use everyday care utensils (tongue depressors, face masks, stethoscopes, cotton swabs, etc) to unlock a patient’s imagination while helping to affirm care providers as heroes.
Serving youth and adults, our program becomes part of a total care package that:
- Strengthens the human connection by bringing people together as members of one community
- Improves the quality of life for children, adults and families in long-term care.
- Alleviates fear and provides normalcy, through entertainment and consistent visitation.
The Actors:
Terey Summers
Brian Sweis
Kim Manning
*Contact Phoenix Theatre's Director of Education, Beck for more Information