Are you looking for a unique experience- to learn about and promote dance/movement therapy, to exercise your leadership potential, and to serve the Dane County community?  

Hancock Center Board members oversee and facilitate the mission, goals and other activities of our non-profit organization. They advise on the management of the Center's business, and have fiduciary oversight of the Center.    

Members serve renewable two year terms. One must have the ability to attend regular meetings and serve on active committees. At this point we are especially interested in individuals with finance, marketing, fundraising, and business experience!

This is your chance to help a local non-profit organization.  

To find out more about HC Board Membership click here or contact Buff Brennan.

In-coming, Out-going

Hancock Center is privileged to welcome new members Mary Ann Fahl, Kelly Anderson, and Rosalie Migas on Board! We say goodbye with much gratitude to outgoing members Tarek Said, Alison Roberts, and Glenis Benson. "...And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne."

Hancock Center's In-School Therapy and Prevention program--partially funded by a grant from United Way of Dane County--has had a middle school component to its Therapy program since 2007.  

Therapists have been leading an Empowerment DMT group for girls at Sennett Middle School which originally focused on Latina teen cultural issues. More recently the group is for multi-cultural at-risk girls to support healthy attitudes, behaviors, and choices. This program has a goal to follow the girls from 6th grade through 8th grade.  

This year Hancock Center was invited to bring the same program for girls to Whitehorse Middle School. HC's commitment to this is in response to the United Way's priority to provide mental health services to teens.  

Please consider the United Way of Dane County in your annual giving. 

Tara Rollins, MA, R-DMT joined Hancock Center staff over a year ago. She has been working with adults with chronic mental illness at Cornucopia, with children in the In-School Violence Prevention and Therapy program, and helping with our outreach events and program development. Tara has been acquiring supervised hours while working toward her final level of accreditation with the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA). She is currently volunteering with us in the In-School Violence Prevention program one day per week. We enjoy her delightful enthusiasm and wish her luck as she pursues state licensure and full-time professional employment. Another dance therapist is born!

This fall we welcomed Allison Steele as the HC dance/movement therapy intern. Allison is from the DMT program at Antioch University New England in New Hampshire. So far she has been co-facilitating the Women's Empowerment group, the middle school girls' therapy group at Whitehorse, and a therapy group for kids at The Canopy Center in Madison. She is also working in our In-School program, teaching Violence Prevention through Movement skills to classrooms and co-leading therapy groups for at-risk kids. This winter she will offer a DMT group for LGBT adults in collaboration with OutReach Center of Madison, and a dmt component to ArtSpeak, a group for LGBT teens through Community Partnerships. Allison has much to offer and we will no doubt learn from her as well!

Thank you to both Tara and Allison for their many hours of service on behalf of the Hancock Center community!