ADL’s A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute will hold its 25th anniversary Youth Congress on Friday April 12, 2019 at the Boston Sheraton Hotel. The event will begin at 8:30 am and end at 1 pm.
Youth Congress is ADL New England’s capstone education event. This one-day conference will bring together over 1,400 middle school and high school students, teachers and community leaders from over 80 schools across New England.
This year’s Youth Congress, “Leaders in Action,” will explore what it means to cultivate the courage, commitment, and community to stand up and speak out against hate and injustice. Through dialogue and workshops around issues of bias, prejudice, and discrimination, participants will be empowered with the knowledge and skills to respond to incidents of anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, ableism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia.
Following an inspirational keynote presentation, ADL peer leaders will facilitate breakout sessions in which participants will identify action steps to make their schools and communities safer and more inclusive and ensure that hate never goes unchecked. “Leaders in Action” is a day centering education, advocacy, and young changemakers in the lead.
“At a time when hate incidents in schools are increasing at an alarming rate, Youth Congress provides students and their teachers with the opportunity to learn what they can do to counteract prejudice and discrimination, support those who are targeted, and actively promote respect in their schools and communities, said Phil Fogelman, Director of ADL New England’s A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE ® Institute.
ADL’s A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE ® Institute Campaign was created in Boston in 1985 as a grassroots initiative to mobilize editors, youth, the media and broad-based community coalition to respond to racial, ethnic and religious tensions across the commonwealth of Massachusetts. More than thirty years later, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE ® Institute training programs and special projects have impacted over 500,000 educators and 36 million young people.
ADL is a leading anti-hate organization. Founded in 1913 in response to an escalating climate of anti-Semitism and bigotry, its timeless mission is to protect the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Today, ADL continues to fight all forms of hate with the same vigor and passion. ADL is the first call when acts of anti-Semitism occur. A global leader in exposing extremism, delivering anti-bias education and fighting hate online, ADL’s ultimate goal is a world in which no group or individual suffers from bias, discrimination or hate. More at www.adl.org.
