Young Audiences of Connecticut’s VSA arts teaching artists provide arts workshops and residencies inclusive of children and adults with disabilities in schools, after school programs, museums, community centers, pediatric hospitals and in venues for organizations that provide arts programming for people with disabilities. Our programs support all learning styles, cultures, ethnic and socio-economic levels.

To insure that arts workshops and residencies support the mission, vision and goals of each partnering organization VSA arts teaching artists:

• Initiate planning meetings with key staff and participants at each of the thirty three locations that we are partnering with to determine program and residency content.
• Develop arts based residency content to support the mission and vision that each organization has for the children and adults they serve. For example for:
  • Educational programs, content is based on Connecticut Curriculum Frameworks
  • Programs in museums and historic sites, programming will support the goals of the venue for people who visit the site
  • Community and disability organizations, program content will be based on the educational, social, self-esteem and community development goals that the organization seeks to achieve.
• Invite key staff and participants at each location to create/use program evaluations to evaluate the succes of the program, whether the program meets the goals and content decided on during the planning sessions, and to inform future arts programming at each location.Evaluations will be completed by the artist, key staff and participants. 

Educational programs and residencies support the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Multiple means of representation, expression and engagement, to accommodate all learning styles.