Michael Prosserman

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Job role:

Executive Director

Affiliation:

UNITY Charity

Member type:

Practitioner/Implementer

Other

Brief Biography:

Learn how 27-year-old Michael Prosserman (aka break dancer “Bboy Piecez”) built an organization from scratch around an alliance of community-minded urban artists. Recognizing that 13- to 18-year-old youths in priority communities needed to find better ways to express their stress and anger, Michael founded UNITY Charity and grew it from an idea in high school into a national charity. In this presentation you’ll experience the exciting journey of UNITY Charity’s rapid growth and how it has built a network of supporters through sponsors, government funders and individual donors that share its values. Michael will also share the key strategies UNITY used to identify partners that share its vision and grassroots values and align with its organizational culture and creativity, ultimately resulting in successful long-term partnerships.

Approach:

Human rights

Empowerment and service user involvement

Advocacy

Technology

Detection and diagnosis

Training, education and capacity building

Regions of interest:

North America

Setting:

Community

Workplace

School

Population:

Children and adolescents

Adults

Minority populations

Disability

Disorders of interest:

Child behavioural and developmental disorders

Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders

All disorders

My contributions

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UNITY

Arts-based leadership training programme that supports and empowers youth to address the critical challenges facing them through positive and constructive outlets

Region:

North America

Population:

Children and adolescents

Disorder:

Child behavioural and developmental disorders

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