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Shining Stars on Stage

Written by Seven Hills Foundation | Jul 15, 2024 1:48:00 PM
The Integrated Arts Program has partnered with Rhode Island’s Trinity Rep Theatre’s Active Imagination Network program (TRAIN) to implement a robust and successful performing arts program for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Since 2011, the two organizations have worked together to enhance access to the arts and provide a creative outlet that helps participants improve social and emotional skills and well-being. Seven Hills Rhode Island is grateful to The Fogarty Foundation for funding this program since its inception and for its most recent grant of $5,000 to support the program in FY25.
 

Founded in 1963, Trinity Rep is nationally recognized for excellence and innovation. The company received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater in 1981, produced four television productions for PBS, toured India and Syria, and was the first American theater company to perform at the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland. Trinity Rep’s Project Discovery program, which celebrated 50 years of student matinees in 2016, is a national model for arts education. 

Trinity Rep shapes the future of the nation’s theater through the development and production of new plays, as well as the Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA program — a tuition-free, three-year program that is one of the leading actor and director training programs in the world. Their mission is to reinvent the public square with dramatic art that stimulates, educates, and engages our diverse community in a continuing dialogue. They achieve this through nationally recognized stage productions, community engagement programming, a professional artistic and resident company, graduate training programs offered in partnership with Brown University, lifelong learning opportunities, and arts education programs for students in grades K-12. 

Seven Hills Rhode Island is a comprehensive health and human services organization supporting more than 1,000 residents throughout the state. Seven Hills has more than 60 years of experience providing a wide range of supports for infants, children and their families, adults, and seniors with various disabilities and life challenges. Our integrated supports are individualized, person-centered, and community-based. Our holistic approach provides a range of health care, behavioral health, community supports, assisted living, day habilitation, educational, and vocational expertise.

Partnering with other providers, businesses, cultural organizations, and the Rhode Island State Health and Human Services system, Seven Hills Rhode Island provides a comprehensive approach to ensuring that each person has access to the supports needed to achieve his or her goals and dreams.

Our Adult Services provide a comprehensive array of supports including adult day health, day habilitation, community-based day supports, adult residential services, shared living, RIte @ Home, brain injury supports, Alzheimer's and Related Dementias, and more. Our philosophy of Community First uses a person-centered approach to ensuring individual choice in supporting each person’s activities. Employment First is the driving theme in the development of skill-based and community-based workforce development options at Seven Hills. Our staff develops integrated community employment that is individualized based on each person’s interests and abilities.

Our full array of Children’s Services starts with infants through our Early Intervention program and continues with specialized community-based HBTS (Home-Based Therapeutic Services), PASS (Personal Assistance Services and Supports), ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) and Respite Services. Seven Hills provides a continuum of care through the developmental stages and supports families along the process.