The Importance of Whole Person Approaches

“The trip exceeded my wildest expectations,” shares Melissa Sawyer, Executive Director of the Youth Empowerment Project (New Orleans) following a (Re)Connecting Youth learning exchange in Brazil. For Sawyer and her team, the 5-day immersion in Rede Cidadã’s holistic, movement-based, employability model was transformational. An initiative of IYF, (Re)Connecting Youth is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Learn more at: http://www.iyfreconnectingyouth.org.