Include Everyone Project SCV
Include Everyone Project SCV, 23734 Valencia Boulevard, Santa Clarita, CA 91355
About
Include Everyone Project SCV offers performing arts classes that include music, dance, acting, voiceover, improvisation, and performing art classes for all abilities. The program also offers an adaptive tap workshop, Premier Musical Theatre's summer program, a summer theatre camp for kids, and performance opportunities. Families can take part in family dance party nights, family drum circles and jam sessions, creation nights for visual arts, picnics, movie nights, special fundraising events, inclusive events, an annual summer camp, and sensory friendly spaces at community events.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Sessions are now 12 weeks of classes
Include Everyone Project SCV offers self-care workshops and classes for caregivers, as well as wellness classes and resources for caregivers in one central location, and provides a respite of support, self-care, and socialization for people who love the disabled artists. Its mission is to provide creative spaces that encourage all members of the community to come together while embracing those with disabilities, to support disabled artists’ social and emotional growth while they explore and learn all aspects of the arts in a supportive, positive, and inclusive environment, and to provide a respite of support, self-care, and socialization for the people who love them. The program states a long-term goal to have a community center and performance space where all members of the disabled community have a place to express themselves, explore their creativity, practice their social skills, and grow, and it has begun an outreach program by bringing sensory friendly spaces to community events.
Include Everyone Project SCV is described as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization, and ReMo Inc. is listed as a benefactor sponsor that has helped to subsidize the program. The leadership team includes founders Kristen De Benedetto (Founder, Executive Director, Dance Instructor), Rodney Dong (Founder, Board President, Music Director), and Kathleen “Kate” White (Founder, Vice President, Drama Instructor), along with board members Adam M. Greenwald, M.B.A.; Neil Fitzgerald; Caroline Daniel; Diane Ortega, M.A.; Flo Loring, M.A. (Adjunct); and Connie Vandarakis, M.A., Ed.D. (Adjunct). Kristen De Benedetto began formal dance training at age five with a focus on classical ballet, received summer intensive grants for the Homer Bryant School of Ballet in Chicago, earned a Bachelor’s degree in Dance Education with a focus on Dance and Movement Therapy from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, completed post-graduate studies in dance and movement therapy, and obtained Autism Movement Therapy Certification in Spring 2017 as a certified provider in the Santa Clarita Valley. Rodney Dong is a Board Certified Music Therapist with a Bachelor’s of Music Therapy Degree from Capilano College in Vancouver, Canada, is a professional member of the American Music Therapy Association, has served as Music Therapy Program Coordinator for two pediatric clinics in the Los Angeles area, and works within Santa Clarita’s school districts with children and youth with developmental disabilities such as Autism, Down Syndrome, and Prader-Willi Syndrome. Kathleen “Kate” White received her B.F.A. in Theatre from Pace University in New York City and a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education with a focus on mild/moderate special education from the University of Southern California.
Include Everyone Project SCV offers inclusive events and performing arts classes for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cerebral Palsy, Prader-Will Syndrome, Downs Syndrome, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, physical disabilities, and all differently abled members of the Santa Clarita community, and describes IEPSCV as a creative space where everyone is included, including 2E, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, Prader-Willi Syndrome, Downs Syndrome, all differently abled artists and their families. The program also offers an annual summer camp for artists and performance opportunities, and it aims to form a supportive community that extends past its walls and into the Santa Clarita Valley. Masking at indoor events is strongly encouraged if a student is coughing or sneezing when COVID, cold, and flu season are at a peak due to a large population of higher risk participants. Include Everyone Project SCV is bringing sensory friendly spaces to community events.
One parent states that the Include Everyone Project has provided an 8-year-old daughter with meaningful opportunities to participate in performing arts classes, and describes the instructors as patient, kind, and well versed in handling behaviors and helping children of all abilities thrive in their classes, and notes appreciation for both fun classes and chances to perform newly learned skills in front of family and friends. Another parent states being grateful the program exists and that a very outgoing son who loves to perform has a place where he is accepted and allowed to be himself on stage.
Last updated March 12, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Sessions are now 12 weeks of classes
Include Everyone Project SCV offers self-care workshops and classes for caregivers, as well as wellness classes and resources for caregivers in one central location, and provides a respite of support, self-care, and socialization for people who love the disabled artists. Its mission is to provide creative spaces that encourage all members of the community to come together while embracing those with disabilities, to support disabled artists’ social and emotional growth while they explore and learn all aspects of the arts in a supportive, positive, and inclusive environment, and to provide a respite of support, self-care, and socialization for the people who love them. The program states a long-term goal to have a community center and performance space where all members of the disabled community have a place to express themselves, explore their creativity, practice their social skills, and grow, and it has begun an outreach program by bringing sensory friendly spaces to community events.
Include Everyone Project SCV is described as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization, and ReMo Inc. is listed as a benefactor sponsor that has helped to subsidize the program. The leadership team includes founders Kristen De Benedetto (Founder, Executive Director, Dance Instructor), Rodney Dong (Founder, Board President, Music Director), and Kathleen “Kate” White (Founder, Vice President, Drama Instructor), along with board members Adam M. Greenwald, M.B.A.; Neil Fitzgerald; Caroline Daniel; Diane Ortega, M.A.; Flo Loring, M.A. (Adjunct); and Connie Vandarakis, M.A., Ed.D. (Adjunct). Kristen De Benedetto began formal dance training at age five with a focus on classical ballet, received summer intensive grants for the Homer Bryant School of Ballet in Chicago, earned a Bachelor’s degree in Dance Education with a focus on Dance and Movement Therapy from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, completed post-graduate studies in dance and movement therapy, and obtained Autism Movement Therapy Certification in Spring 2017 as a certified provider in the Santa Clarita Valley. Rodney Dong is a Board Certified Music Therapist with a Bachelor’s of Music Therapy Degree from Capilano College in Vancouver, Canada, is a professional member of the American Music Therapy Association, has served as Music Therapy Program Coordinator for two pediatric clinics in the Los Angeles area, and works within Santa Clarita’s school districts with children and youth with developmental disabilities such as Autism, Down Syndrome, and Prader-Willi Syndrome. Kathleen “Kate” White received her B.F.A. in Theatre from Pace University in New York City and a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education with a focus on mild/moderate special education from the University of Southern California.
Include Everyone Project SCV offers inclusive events and performing arts classes for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cerebral Palsy, Prader-Will Syndrome, Downs Syndrome, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, physical disabilities, and all differently abled members of the Santa Clarita community, and describes IEPSCV as a creative space where everyone is included, including 2E, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, Prader-Willi Syndrome, Downs Syndrome, all differently abled artists and their families. The program also offers an annual summer camp for artists and performance opportunities, and it aims to form a supportive community that extends past its walls and into the Santa Clarita Valley. Masking at indoor events is strongly encouraged if a student is coughing or sneezing when COVID, cold, and flu season are at a peak due to a large population of higher risk participants. Include Everyone Project SCV is bringing sensory friendly spaces to community events.
One parent states that the Include Everyone Project has provided an 8-year-old daughter with meaningful opportunities to participate in performing arts classes, and describes the instructors as patient, kind, and well versed in handling behaviors and helping children of all abilities thrive in their classes, and notes appreciation for both fun classes and chances to perform newly learned skills in front of family and friends. Another parent states being grateful the program exists and that a very outgoing son who loves to perform has a place where he is accepted and allowed to be himself on stage.
Last updated March 12, 2026.
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