2020 No Place for Hate® Youth Summit

The 2020 No Place for Hate® Youth Summit is a newly designed and highly impactful series of virtual programming taking place during the week of October 5-9, 2020. We invite Middle School and High School No Place for Hate coalition members and coordinators from all around the Lone Star State to attend this week of content designed to inspire allyship and activism.

Sessions will be presented both live (required zoom registration) and recorded and posted to the Youth Summit website afterwards.

You can access this content with your coalition either synchronously or asynchronously.

For more information and to register for the 2020 Youth Summit, visit www.adl.org/npfhyouthsummit.

 

2019 No Place for Hate® Youth Summit Highlight Video

ADL Austin hosted the 12th annual No Place for Hate® Youth Summit on December 10, 2019. More than 550 seventh and eighth grade students and 120 educators attended.

The Youth Summit’s unique environment encourages students to confront their own biases and empathize with people from very different backgrounds. Students are divided into groups of thirty, with no two kids in one group coming from the same school. Each group runs through three to four activities that help students explore issues of diversity and identity. Over sixty volunteers facilitated the sessions, which requires three hours of training in ADL’s A World Of Difference® curriculum.

Our goal for the day is for students to better recognize and stand up to prejudice and hate when they see it. To do that, we spend the day exploring identity, examining bias, and looking at the ways in which hate can escalate. We want students to leave the summit knowing how to be an ally and inspire allyship in others.”

With over 30% of students reporting that they are victims of bullying, intolerance dominates as the most pervasive issue facing schools today. Both teachers and students need resources and guidance to navigate both the effects and causes of bullying. ADL’s No Place For Hate® resources attempt to teach children and adults how to learn from their peers and build communities of respect on their campuses.

Over 100 volunteers including representatives from the Austin Police Department, Austin ISD, University of Texas, and the National Council of Jewish Women joined ADL Austin to provides educators and students with the tools to stand up against hate and the resources to ensure that anti-bias and diversity education are a part of their school’s curriculum.

The next Youth Summit is scheduled to take place in the 2020-2021 school year. Please contact the ADL Austin office (austin@adl.org) if you are interested in volunteering for this event.