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CREATIVE ALTERNATIVES OF NEW YORK

AKA CANY

New York, NY

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Also Known As:: CANY
Physical Address:: New York, NY 10025
EIN:: 13-3204610
Web URL:: www.cany.org
Leadership:: Jonathan Hilton, Chief Executive

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Fiscal Year Starting: July 1, 2007
Fiscal Year Ending: June 30, 2008

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Total Revenue	$601,112

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Total Expenses	$612,445

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CREATIVE ALTERNATIVES OF NEW YORK

Also Known As:: CANY
Physical Address:: New York, NY 10025
EIN:: 13-3204610
Web URL:: www.cany.org
NTEE Category:: F Mental Health, Crisis Intervention; F99 Other Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.; A Arts, Culture, and Humanities; A99 Other Art, Culture, Humanities Organizations/Services N.E.C.; O Youth Development; O99 Other Youth Development N.E.C.
Year Founded:: 1983
Ruling Year:: 1984
How This Organization Is Funded:: Earned Income/Service Fees - $200,000; Corporation/Foundation - $200,000; Individuals - $250,000

Mission Statement

Since 1983 Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY) has worked to achieve its mission of bringing healing through the use of creative expression to the most vulnerable in New York City. CANY has over time developed a model of combining drama and group therapy to create an effective creative arts therapy, now providing programs in partnership with 18 leading social service agencies in the greater New York City area in a wide range of community based settings - mental health centers, residential settings and special schools.

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Impact Statement

An evaluation of programs with youth completed in 2010 using the Individual Protective Factors Index (IPFI): A measure of adolescent resiliency. The evaluation measured improved social competency, social bonding and personal competency. CANY also implemented a scale to measure improvement in creativity. The evaluation showed statistically significant improvements in Social competence and Creativity of youth participants.

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Chief Executive

Jonathan Hilton

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Since Jan 2004

Chief Executive Profile:

Mr. Hilton originally joined CANY (then called Imagination Workshop) in 1978 while pursuing an acting career in New York. Working first as a theater artist and then as the Program Coordinator at the NYU-Cornell Medical Center program in White Plains, he left in 1982 to found a new therapeutic drama program for troubled adolescents in Orange County, New York, which he ran while simultaneously completing his Bachelor's Degree in Drama Therapy at the State University of New York. Later, as faculty member and administrator of the Speech and Drama Program of Sunbridge College in Spring Valley, NY, he designed and taught a special drama course for the teacher education students. Mr. Hilton has also been Executive Director of The Actors' Ensemble theater company and continues to serve on their Board of Directors.

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Funding Needs

Program Funding for various programs providing services to women, youth at risk, veterans with traumatic stress, psychiatrically disabled children and adults.
Individual programs range in annual costs from $15,000 to $85,000

Volunteer Needs

No program volunteers as program staff require special training. Board members needed. Finance and design volunteers needed.

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News

CANY to offer one day Drama Therapy training workshop for Mental Health Community

December 04, 2011

An Introduction to Drama Therapy

Sunday, December 4, 2011

10:00am - 5:00pm

One day workshop for

Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers & Counselors, Creative Arts Therapists and Psychotherapists

This training workshop will introduce you to the principles of drama therapy. Throughout the day, you will examine ways in which theatre can be used to transform lives. Join us and explore the basic tenets of the CANY model of drama therapy through theory and group activities.

Participants will...

> Experience the drama therapy process in action

> Gain practical skills in how to safely explore trauma & challenging life experiences through metaphor and play

> Participate in drama therapy interventions aimed at improving client relatedness, self-esteem, emotional expression and self-regulation, spontaneity and the capacity to play a diverse range of life roles

Led by Registered Drama Therapist Heidi Landis, RDT-BCT, LCAT

For more information, visit CANY online at www.cany.org.