by Lindi Duesenberg | Dec 18, 2019 | News
School is the main priority for most kids. However, according to Jen Rinehart, VP for policy and research at the Afterschool Alliance, kids only spend about 20% of their time in school. So what about the other 80%? With such a relatively small amount of time spent in...
by Lindi Duesenberg | Nov 26, 2019 | News
Every holiday season we gather with friends, family, delicious foods, and we are reminded to be grateful. But what exactly does it mean to be grateful? Gratitude can be hard to define – is it an emotion, a behavior, a personality trait? Although landing on an...
by Lindi Duesenberg | Apr 5, 2019 | News
MINDFULNESS. Rethinking wellness at DMF Youth. When you look at the #mindfulness hashtag on Instagram, you would think mindfulness is impossibly fit yoga instructors or effortlessly designed bohemian bedrooms. Mindfulness, however, is much more than a wellness trend....
by Lindi Duesenberg | Sep 27, 2018 | News
DMF Youth is one week in to our fall programming and nearly 100 children attending Title 1 schools and/or living in homeless shelters are dancing their hearts out and learning valuable life skills that will help them thrive in and out of the classroom. This fall we...
by Lindi Duesenberg | Sep 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
Happy September! DMF Youth starts our fall programming this week! We are thrilled to begin our 4th season of afterschool programming and serve nearly 100 kids at four sites across East Harlem, the Bronx, and the Lower East Side! We can’t wait to dance, laugh,...
