2024

  • Reaches four staff members

  • DC Office of the Attorney General recognizes Negotiation Works with a Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Violence Prevention grant

  • Spur Local accepts NW into their 2024 class 

  • Melissa receives a “Hero of Hope” award from the DC Department of Corrections for making extraordinary contributions to the residents of the DC Jail

  • Develops three new partnerships: HER Resiliency Center (NW’s first program in Baltimore), Urban Ed, and Free Minds

  • Creates new coil-bound guidebooks to accompany our class material

  • Holds a 3-day training program for new volunteer instructors, bringing the total number of  trained instructors to 50

  • Enters into agreement with the Dispute Resolution Research Center at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management to offer four NW role plays for sale; featured in their fall newsletter

TOTAL 2024 PARTICIPANTS: 274

Meridith Paulhus