Partnership with Children
  • DONATE
    • Donate Now
    • Ways To Give
  • Search
  • Menu Canvas
    • ABOUT
      • Our Mission
      • Our History
      • Our Commitment to Antiracism
      • Our Team
      • Financials
    • PROGRAM
      • Approach
      • Program Model
      • PWC Community Schools
      • Clinical Supervision
      • Our Impact
    • ARTS EDUCATION
    • IMPACT MAP
    • JEPPE HEIN ART
    • NEWS
    • CAREERS
    • EVENTS
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • YouTube
Partnership with Children
  • NEWS
  • CAREERS
  • EVENTS
  • NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Youtube
  • ABOUT
    • Our Mission
    • Our History
    • Our Commitment to Antiracism
    • Our Team
    • Financials
  • PROGRAM
    • Approach
    • Program Model
    • PWC Community Schools
    • Clinical Supervision
    • Our Impact
  • ARTS EDUCATION
  • PWC IMPACT MAP
  • FEATURED ARTISTS
    • JEPPE HEIN ART
    • JEREMYVILLE
  • DONATE
    • Donate Now
    • Ways To Give
  • LEARN ABOUT US
    • Our History
    • Our Team
      • Staff
      • Councils
    • News and Media
      • News
      • Media
    • Supporters
    • Financials
    • Careers
  • FEATURED ARTISTS
    • Jeppe Hein Art
    • JEREMYVILLE
  • PROGRAM
    • Program Model
    • Extra content
    • Success Stories
    • School Map
  • FOR SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
    • PWC Community Schools
    • Testimonials
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Volunteer
    • Careers

Michelle Welk

Homepage Michelle Welk
Read More
0 Comment
159 Views
News

Student Voice and Engagement: A Model for Healing-Centered Education
September 29, 2026
By Michelle Welk
For four years, Partnership with Children set out to test something we've always believed: Arts education and mental health support… more
Read More

SUBSCRIBE

Sign Up for Our Newsletter

INDEX

  • News
  • Uncategorized

ARCHIVE

2026
  • Student Voice and Engagement: A Model for Healing-Centered Education
  • Partnership with Children CEO Wesner Pierre on ABC7 to Share Tips on Children’s Summer Mental Health
  • PWC and Soles4Souls Host Exclusive Shoe Distribution Event at P.S. 194
  • Anu Willoughby named to Partnership with Children’s Board of Directors
  • Chief Program Officer Angela Jefferson Named to City & State’s Black Trailblazers List
2025
  • Partnership with Children Named to City & State’s Top Mental Health Care Providers List
  • PWC Partner Schools Rally for Breast Cancer Awareness in Brownsville
  • Partnership with Children Recognized Among City & State NY’s 2025 Top Workplaces
  • Partnership with Children Welcomes John Walsh to Board of Directors
  • 2025 Inspiration Gala Featured on WCBS-TV News by Host and Gala Emcee Kristine Johnson
  • Wesner Pierre Named to City & State’s 2025 Nonprofit Trailblazers List
  • Jerry Hyppolite Named to City & State’s 2025 Who’s Who in Government Relations
  • PWC Takes Part in Arts Education Funding Conversation
  • Partnership with Children Welcomes Nancy Hall to Board of Directors
  • PWC CEO, Wesner Pierre, Honored As One Of Crain’s New York Business Notable Black Leaders of 2024
  • PWC’s Senior Director of Equity Lola Martin Featured As One Of City & State New York’s 2024 Responsible 100
  • PWC CEO, Wesner Pierre, Recognized As A PoliticsNY & amNY Metro Nonprofit Power Player
  • Partnership with Children Students Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness
2024
  • Helena Willner named Partnership with Children Board President
  • Freedom Schools Students speak out against gun violence in Brownsville
  • CBS NEWS: Annual Inspiration Gala held in support of Partnership With Children
  • Bronx Times: Leaders discuss youth mental health, its causes and ‘real solutions’ during panel at Bronx Borough Hall
  • NYN First Read Opinion: Addressing mental health solutions for Bronx youth
  • North Arrow: Impact Mapping for PWC
  • Mayor Adams Announces New York City’s First-Ever Nonprofit Advisory Council
  • CBS NEWS: Councilwoman wants to expand laundry facilities in high-rate shelter student schools
  • PWC CEO Wesner Pierre Honored Among City Luminaries 2024 Manhattan Power List
  • CityLimits Opinion: Restoring our Children’s Future Through Ecosystems of Support
  • News 12 Brooklyn: PWC & Riverdale Avenue Middle School New Food Pantry & Parents Resource Center
  • PWC & Robin Hood Investment of “Next Generation” Community Schools
2023
  • ABC Here and Now: Supporting Youth Mental Health in Schools
  • Helping kids post-COVID-19: A Q&A with Partnership With Children’s new CEO Wesner Pierre
  • Partnership with Children Names Annie Cleary Chief Development Officer and Promotes Franklyn Pintado to Chief Financial Officer
  • Partnership with Children CEO speaks to News 12 State of Our Schools
  • Rockaway Collegiate Students Collect Food to Help Support the Community
  • School social workers are an essential support for children’s mental health: Read our Op-Ed
  • Our Holiday Wish: Deep, Necessary Investments in Children’s Mental Health
2022
  • FPWA 100th Year Anniversary!
  • Virtual Job Fair October 26, 2022
  • A Message From Our CEO, Wesner Pierre
  • Partnership with Children awarded the UHC Empowering Health grant!
  • Partnership with Children’s Theater Programs Featured in City Limits News!
  • Read PWC’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Newsletter, April/May 2022
  • Partnership with Children’s CEO, Wesner Pierre, was featured on News 12!
  • Partnership with Children featured on PIX11 News
  • Read PWC’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Newsletter, February/March 2022
  • 2022 Inspiration Gala!
  • Partnership with Children Names Wesner Pierre as CEO
  • Join Partnership with Children and Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
2021
  • To Meet Children’s Mental Health Crisis, Support Our Social Workers: Read our op-ed
  • Partnership with Children Names Tom Booker, André Branch and Castleigh Johnson to its Board of Directors
  • Partnership with Children Names Angela Jefferson Chief Program Officer
  • Watch our Year In Reflection Town Hall and SEL Discussion: Social Emotional Learning with an Equity Lens
  • CAE’s Senior Program Director published in the New York Daily News
  • Partnership with Children featured on NBC News
  • Partnership with Children’s Inspiration Gala in NYN First Read
  • Meredith Sherman named Senior Program Director at The Center for Arts Education at Partnership with Children
  • Partnership with Children Welcomes Jessica Rawlins as Chief Development Officer
  • Our vision for re-opening schools: Read our op-ed
  • 2021 Inspiration Gala!
  • PWC Offers Crisis Counseling Support for New York City During COVID-19
  • Partnership with Children Welcomes Travis Rodgers as Chief Equity and Strategy Officer
2020
  • Watch our 2nd Virtual Town Hall: Advancing Equity for NYC Children during the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond
  • PWC Town Hall: Advancing Equity for NYC Children during the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond
  • Our Commitment
  • Watch our Virtual Town Hall- PWC on the Ground: COVID-19 and Children’s Mental Health
  • Partnership with Children will be a Recipient of the BET Relief Fund
  • PWC on the Ground: COVID-19 and Children’s Mental Health
  • COVID-19 Response: Meeting the New Needs of Students
  • Partnership with Children Joined by The Center for Arts Education to Broaden Social-Emotional Learning and Improve Schools
  • PWC CEO Joins City Officials at Press Conference Celebrating Community Schools
  • PWC CEO’s op-ed on the proven need for social workers in schools
  • PWC Chosen as a Holiday Feature on Bloomberg Businessweek
2019
  • PWC Featured in Enterprising Women
  • P.S. 67 Freedom School Summer Programming Featured on CBS New York
  • PWC Partnering with the Children’s Defense Fund on 3 Freedom Schools this Summer
  • PWC Welcomes Four New Board Members
2018
  • LaToya Williams-Belfort named one of The Network Journal’s “40 Under Forty”
  • Franklyn Pintado Recognized by NYN Media
  • PWC to partner with the Children’s Defense Fund and the Ford Foundation on 3 Freedom Schools this summer
  • Op-ed by PWC Executive Director highlights successful ‘Renewal’ school partnerships
  • Principal Kyesha Jackson shares her school’s successes in “PS 67: A Brooklyn School On The Rise”
2017
  • Maria Astudillo awarded NASW Image Award
  • Partnership with Children on Broadway!
  • PWC Staff Interviewed by Education Week About Community Schools
  • Coalition School for Social Change profiled in Chalkbeat
  • The Atlantic highlights our successful partnership with PS 67
  • Martin Van Buren H.S. Shows Academic Improvements
  • Jan 17: Omino Gardezi’s documentary, Lead the Parade, launches in honor of MLK Day.
2016
  • The Atlantic and Politico feature our work with homeless students
  • Positive school climates shown to narrow achievement gaps
  • National Leader on Restorative Justice Visits Our Program
  • Partnership with Children goes Back to School
  • Education Dive features our partnership with Riverdale Avenue Community School
  • Partnership with Children in The New York Times
  • CityLimits features one of our community schools, PS/IS 284
  • Slate features Partnership with Children and emerging science that informs our work in schools
  • “Ushering in a Process of Change: Introducing Restorative Practices at the Middle School Level”, Brooklyn Community Foundation
  • New talent featured in New York Business Journal
2015
  • New York Knicks star takes our students on a shopping spree for the holidays
  • “Help With School and Life in East Harlem”, The Wall Street Journal
  • “At a school in Brooklyn’s poorest neighborhood, literacy is up and disciplinary problems are down”, The Hechinger Report
  • “Crown Heights Middle School Getting Special Staffer to Lower Suspensions”, DNA Info
  • Press Release: Brooklyn Community Foundation Funds Restorative Justice Programs in 4 Brooklyn Schools to Reduce Suspensions and Arrests
  • “CEO Corner: Margaret Crotty, Partnership with Children”, New York Nonprofit Media
  • “As city acts on their cause, community school advocates carve out a new role”, Chalkbeat
  • “Chocolateship with Children” for Partnership with Children!
  • Partnership with Children’s Summer Quest Featured on NY1
  • Partnership with Children Raises $1.16 Million at Annual Spring Gala
  • Partnership with Children Staff is New Yorker of the Week!
  • TD Five Boro Bike Tour
  • “Partnership with Children Elects Four to Board”
2014
  • Partnership with Children to run 3 programs under Community School Intiative
  • “Rockaway communities still feeling emotional toll of Sandy”, Queens Ledger
  • Partnership with Children Awarded $6.5 Million for the Social Services Block Grant
  • “How to Get Kids to Class”, New York Times
  • “In its third year, an expanded Summer Quest looks to prove its academic effects”, Chalkbeat
  • Partnership with Children Raises $800,000 at Spring Gala!
  • Red Cross Awards Grant to Provide Emotional and Mental Health Supports in Schools
  • Partnership with Children Elects Two New Board Members
2013
  • New York Times article focuses on a Partnership with Children student
  • Our Advice for NYC’s Decision Makers
  • Closing the Achievement Gap During the Summer
  • Partnership with Children Conducting Year 2 of NYC Summer Quest
  • Camp Robin Hood visits Partnership with Children at P.S. 3
  • Park Avenue Garage Sale benefiting Partnership with Children
  • Partnership with Children participates in Skype’s Read Aloud Program
  • Robin Hood Receives the Anne Vanderbilt Award for Achievement
  • Partnership with Children Gala Raises $750,000
  • Partnership with Children 2013 Gala Kick-off
2012
  • Celebrating The Staten Island Foundation
  • Sharing Our Response to FEMA “Project Hope”
  • Students Invited to New York Theatre Ballet’s “The Nutcracker”
  • A Taste of the Good Life 2012
  • Partnership with Children chosen for FEMA “Project Hope”
  • Hurricane Sandy Update
  • October is Bullying Prevention Month
  • Partnership with Children featured on WNET!
  • Associate Executive Director Barbara Cavallo cited in School Board News Today
  • Partnership with Children Selected as Part of NYC Summer Quest
  • Margaret Crotty named new Executive Director
  • Councilman Jackson takes MS 296 Students on Tour of City Hall
  • Spring Gala Success!
Donate today

CONTACT

One Battery Park Plaza, Suite 200
New York, NY 10004
212-689-9500
info@partnershipwithchildren.org

SITEMAP

  • About
  • Program
  • Center for Arts Education
  • News
  • Careers
  • Events
  • Newsletter Sign-Up
©2018 PARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

We appreciate your support and we look forward to sharing
updates about our programs, events, and impact.

SearchPostsLoginCart
Tuesday, 29, Sep
Student Voice and Engagement: A Model for Healing-Centered Education
Wednesday, 12, Aug
Partnership with Children CEO Wesner Pierre on ABC7 to Share Tips on Children’s Summer Mental Health
Thursday, 2, Apr
PWC and Soles4Souls Host Exclusive Shoe Distribution Event at P.S. 194
Tuesday, 3, Feb
Anu Willoughby named to Partnership with Children’s Board of Directors
Sunday, 1, Feb
Chief Program Officer Angela Jefferson Named to City & State’s Black Trailblazers List
Friday, 12, Dec
Partnership with Children Named to City & State’s Top Mental Health Care Providers List

Welcome back,