Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - the charter OAK cultural center, a multicultural arts center doing the work of social justice through the arts, fulfills…

Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - the charter OAK cultural center, a multicultural arts center doing the work of social justice through the arts, fulfills its mission in several ways including through its youth arts institute that provides 1,000 hartford children with a free, high quality arts education. Virtually all of our classes have waiting lists so, to be able to serve an additional 250 children, charter OAK purchased the building next door, 25 charter OAK avenue, in 2021. The project is to renovate this new building, so that the first floor and the garage out back (which needs to be torn down and rebuilt) can be turned into classrooms and the top two floors into offices. In this way, the spaces in original building, 21 charter OAK avenue, can be converted entirely into classrooms. 25 charter OAK avenue will provide something else. IT will house an office in which psychotherapy sessions can take place. Our youth arts institute has just become what we call aces-aware/trauma informed. As part of this, we are offering psychotherapy to our students and their families. For those without therapy, we will provide subsidies. One of the rooms on the first floor will be a dedicated office for 2ASSUREUS, the psychotherapy practice we have hired.