Although memories of past summers evoke images of our old location, Stong College, Success Beyond Limits is forging ahead with new memories at our new home, Osgoode Hall Law School.
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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
Success Beyond Limits – Toronto, Canada
Success Beyond Limits is a youth empowerment and mentorship program that operates in Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighborhood. The program runs a summer camp to help youth transition into high school, in addition to providing support programs throughout the year at Westview Centennial Secondary School. This short documentary about SBL was shot, edited and directed by five students from the program, as part of SkyWorks Charitable Foundation’s Real Change Youth Filmmaking Mentorship program.
