With the support of the SBL staff team, Mentors and Westview students a video was put together in support of Vanessa’s nomination for Community Worker of the Year.
Archive for November, 2012
Executive Director Chris Penrose Wins York University Bryden Award
For remarkable professional and community accomplishments early in his or her career.
Chris Penrose (BA ’04)
Executive Director, Success Beyond Limits
Described as a “big-picture thinker with his feet (and heart) on the ground,” Chris Penrose has been working with youth in the Jane-Finch community for over a decade. As the Executive Director of Success Beyond Limits, he has had direct and positive impact on the lives of hundreds of youth in the community, drawing on his own turbulent adolescence to help them achieve higher credit accumulations, better attendance and higher grades than other students in their cohort. A regular invited guest on CBC Metro Morning, Chris has become an important voice in Toronto on violence, policing and community issues as they affect youth.
http://www.yorku.ca/alumni/awards/2012Bryden.html