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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

In 2006 I had the honor of being part of CCSJ's Civil Rights Conference. It was everything that I imagined it to be and more … it increased my knowledge of my history and ways that I can make a change. I was motivated to go back to my community and influence other youth on how to become community builders for a more just society. 

Derrick Lewis,
Philip O Berry

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SUMMER LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS
  
Anytown
Sponsored by Deloitte & Touche LLP, Dow Chemical Company, and Duke Energy Corporation.
Anytown has been part of the experience of thousands of Charlotte-Mecklenburg high school students for 20 Years.  It is a life-changing, ever evolving, program that will continue to be the flagship of the Charlotte Coalition for Social Justice long into the future – as long as it is needed!  Anytown brings together a diverse group of youth from 10th to 12th grade with peer counselors and adult advisors to engage is a series of powerful workshops and activities designed to build understanding of difference, challenge negative assumptions and stereotypes, celebrate diversity, explore experiences of discrimination and injustice and motivate and equip the participants to become leaders in relation to issues of equity and inclusion.  Young people leave Anytown with confidence in who they are, appreciation of others and a strong desire to work for positive change our community.
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Anytown II
 Anytown II is a relatively new program, and it is a response to a need expressed by our young people.  It is for those who attended Anytown and who have continued to work to fight bias, bigotry and racism since their initial Anytown experience.  In the course of their involvement, these youth have realized how much more there is to know and to learn, and so they come to Anytown II to deepen their understanding and strengthen their leadership skills.  Anytown II is mandatory for Anytown participants who want to be peer counselors at future Anytown programs.

Bring It On!: Rising to Meet the Challenge of High School
Sponsored by: Bank of America
The transition from middle to high school is a challenging one in many ways. Many of our high schools are more diverse than are elementary and middle schools.  The high school years are also very formative in terms of identity, confidence, the development of personal ideas and beliefs and group affiliation. Bring It On! offers 9th graders the opportunity to address issues of self-awareness, diversity and inclusion as they prepare to take on this challenge, and encourages them to become leaders whose minds are open to difference and who exhibit and promote respect for themselves and others.
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