Responsive Education Accessing Creativity for Healing (REACH)

Mission: to bring the healing power of arts to those in need.

The REACH Program recognizes that arts education is an essential element to a healthy community.

REACH OUT provides an opportunity for those in crisis to access the amazing restorative powers of the creative experience. Through classes and workshops taught by area arts professionals and educators, REACH provides a venue for area social service organizations to expand programming for those they serve, utilizing the therapeutic possibilities of the arts.

REACH BEYOND provides professional support programming and resources to benefit the careers of local working artists.

REACH IN gives anyone the opportunity to explore creativity and get in touch with the artist within.

Currently Arts 2 People is looking for teachers. We are creating a pool of class offerings for our partnering organizations. Turn your expertise into a class! Download the Class Proposal Form. It can help you transform your idea into a class format. Experienced teachers, please use the Class Proposal Form.

Quotes about the Reach Program:

As a teacher at Emma Elementary, it was awesome to see a community activity that appealed to and reached out to my students - Heather Nagle

Quotes about the Reach/With Our Hands Workshops:

Thank you so much for offering these classes.  They really bring together a diverse set of people. - Erin Fussell

New horizons have opened for me creatively – and I am more hopeful!- Lynne Gillespie

Thanks for these wonderful classes.  Healing and art are forever intertwined. This gives a way for survivors to also feel strong, worthwhile, capable, confident, and give back to the community in some way. - Anonymous

I "outed" myself so to speak, with this class, and gained the courage to seek more formal help in my journey toward healing. - Maria Weinstein

The class inspired me to return to creative endeavors. - Sara May

I liked the safety and acceptance that I felt there.  I didn't realize how anxious I was until I took a deep breath and realized "all was ok"! - Lynne Gillespie

I got a real sense of achievement in making a piece and how much I learned about myself making that piece.  I started off with a plan of how it would look and let's just say it turned out very different – as if it was changing to test me.  I really enjoyed the awareness of my reactions in accepting these things and comparing these to things that happen generally in life. - Jude Lally

It was a chance to be myself, to try something new without intimidation.  Many thanks for offering something I would never have signed up for by myself. - Susan Denne