The Youth First/Artist-In-Residence Program addresses the diverse needs of our youth ages 4-18 through customized, long-term, quality, multidisciplinary, standards based workshops in visual and performing arts. Every program is a model of inclusion, crossing lines of race and cultural difference. Programs reach children everywhere - in the heart of their neighborhood, schools, churches, community centers and libraries.

The mission of Theatre Of Hearts/Youth First Artist-In-Residence program is to prevent and intervene in youth-on-youth violence by involving youth and their families in on-going, high quality, multidisciplinary educational arts workshops offered at schools and community-based sites countywide.

Theatre Of Hearts, founded in 1987, is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation whose vision is to promote understanding between people through cultural and artistic forums, and to empower local communities through education in the arts.