Unity Project Partners: We Work Better Together.

The Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC): Since Hurricane Katrina, the Unity Project has provided resilience training to teachers throughout Mississippi through MAC's Whole Schools Initiative.

The Department of Youth and Community Development of the City of New York (DYCD): A partnership between UP and DYCD post 9/11 to create in-depth resilience building programming for 23,000 high school students in 201 after school programs throughout the city.  

• Launched at Gracie Mansion, March, 2003.
• Provided training to 80 DYCD “Beacon Program” sites that serve nearly 700,000 children.
• “The Healing Arts” symposium at NYU gathered over 250 community agencies to support the city post 9/11.
• Youth Week, June, 2003 city wide displays of kids’ art depicting resilient growth and unity in diversity after 9/11.
• Plans to continue work in 201 high school after school programs beginning in the fall of 2007.

Young Audiences (YA): The Unity Project has provided training and arts based programming to the extensive network of YA throughout the Hurricane Katrina affected areas of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas reaching many thousands of children.

School Arts Rescue Initiative (SARI):Training teaching artists for work with thousands of children throughout New York City and Westchester County, NY.