Development Without Limits is often engaged by organizations to support the implementation of special projects. With a team of 30 consultants with a range of specialties and experience in youth work and education, DWL is well-suited to create custom made programmatic plans and strategies to engage young people and educators.
Development Without Limits is engaged by Inwood House to provide youth participants and staff with an overnight summer camp experience, with teambuilding, arts and crafts, thematic activities, nature walks, swimming, campfires and more.
Development Without Limits was engaged by Grand Street Settlement to facilitate a group mentoring project between Americorps participants and elementary school students. From its kickoff at a weekend retreat, to the culminating event at the end of the year, DWL consultants designed and facilitate activities with the young people and kids, alongside agency staff.
Development Without Limits is engaged by The After School Corporation to provide professional development to support the Building Healthy Communities initiative, a program where kids learn about the epidemic of childhood obesity within the context of their own communities. This program operates in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia. For more information, please click here
As part of New York City’s Out of School Time initiative, Development Without Limits was engaged by The After-School Corporation to provide the trainers for a youth development program for teens in all ten regions of the New York City Department of Education. Over thirty Development Without Limits consultants provided workshops that explored issues of professionalism, time management, financial literacy, communication, conflict resolution, working with young children and many other issues. They also guided the teens to develop creative community projects based on their own needs and concerns.
Development Without Limits was engaged by The After-School Corporation to provide the trainers for a professional development program for teens who work with younger children in summer youth programs all over New York City. Workshops focused on professionalism, time management, financial literacy, communication, conflict resolution, and working with young children.
Development Without Limits was engaged by Children’s Aid Society to work with afterschool programs in New Britain, CT to help them to expand and improve their outcomes with youth. Services included professional development, assessment, and program development.
As part of an effort to provide youth development supports to young people disproportionately affected by the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the Christian Children’s Fund engaged Development Without Limits to provide Project Unity, a summer youth internship program for teens in Queens, NY. Development Without Limits partnered with Forest Hills Community House and South Asian Youth Action and guided the young people to help them to develop a theatrical production in their own words, based on their stories.
Check out these links for news on Project Unity:
Christian Childrens Fund
Interaction.org
"We must become the change
we want to see in the world"
-M.K. Gandhi
“How to work with kids and not be mean.’ That’s the subtitle of today’s “Positive Discipline” seminar, conducted through one of the nation’s most extensive training networks for after-school workers. The staffers discuss the problem behaviors they face with kids in the program here: not listening, teasing, lying, not trying, talking back and stealing. Then they try to figure out what to do about it.”