Final Program Results
PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS One Humanity Tour MAY 2019 - DECEMBER 2022
Palm Beach Dramaworks’ “One Humanity Tour” is a multifaceted, arts-based program created to use drama as a tool to present middle school students with ethical dilemmas around social topics. Dramaworks commissioned, cast, and staged a play for 7th graders in southern Palm Beach County to raise awareness of the teen human sex trafficking crisis. It also addressed how social media and digital apps can lead to teen sex trafficking. The play has three unique stories that specifically show how human trafficking might impact students or their classmates. After the play, there is a group discussion to address key messages and what students can do in such situations. Importantly, at the end of the post-test survey, students are asked if they would like to speak with an adult at their school. If a student checks ‘yes,’ the behavioral health specialist is given a copy of the survey in order to follow up with that student.
COVID and scheduling challenges limited the number of performances during the grant period; however, Dramaworks is committed to performing the play annually in perpetuity. Significantly, the National Endowment for the Arts recognized the value of this play with a grant to expand performances into north Palm Beach County.
1,190 students in southern Palm Beach County have seen the play to date.
2,750 students in all of Palm Beach County have seen the play to date.
Program success based on actual student responses:
" I feel much better about myself knowing if that happens then I know to say no.”
“I feel a sense of courage because I know what to do.” “I feel like I learned so much; I would never like to be in this situation, and this is what is really going on out there in the world.”
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