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Empowering Leaders for Inclusion

NCCJSTL conducts the region's premiere training programs for leaders who want to build inclusion in organizations.  The organization works to impact  education equity and end disparate educational outcomes between groups.  In addition, the organization is developing products that will address healthcare disparties and the needs of human resources departments that seek to build inclusion in all aspects of a business.

Designing "Promising Practices" Training and Technical Assistance for Leaders

Nationally recognized programs like the Dismantling Racism-Classism Institute, the Dismantling Racism Institute for Educators and the Anytown Youth Leadership Institute strengthen the region's leadership to build inclusive organizations. These programs are also laboratories for continuing innovation and design.

Focusing on Individual Leaders and Their Role in Building Inclusion

As institutional/organization policies and practices become more inclusive, equity can be achieved for all people in the community. Empowered Leadership that combines awareness and critical change agency on issues of race and difference promotes institutional/organizational change for inclusion. NCCJSTL's work focuses on individual leaders and their growth in the work of creating and sustaining processes for inclusion.

Building Inclusion Through Mutual Relationships of Respect and Commitment to Collaboration

NCCJSTL training programs build networks of trust and mutuality among leaders. NCCJSTL training institutes are longer-term, residential programs that create learning communities (i.e., groups of leaders who develop their own interactions, processes and learning opportunities, taking advantage of their own skills, knowledge and expertise). NCCJSTL training institutes provide a common experience and "language" for collaborative action. Skilled facilitation, innovative process and feedback mechanisms, and participant involvement and expertise provide leaders with the opportunity to address personal bias, bigotry and racism. In this way, leaders are strengthened to focus on structural and institutional issues that perpetuate inequalities in education, housing and employment. They are also strengthened to build collaborative, community-building initiatives that take race into account. Graduates of NCCJSTL's institutes can "lead with race" effectively.

Creating and Sustaining Community-Building Initiatives that Take Structural Oppression Into Account

NCCJSTL has partnered with many other organizations to establish community-building initiatives that strengthen the St. Louis region's capacity to fight bias, bigotry and racism, promote understanding and respect, and produce strategic, measurable action that changes institutions for the betterment of all in the community. NCCJSTL is a founding partner of:

The U.S. Attorneys' Hate Crimes Task Force
The Diversity Awareness Partnership
The Education Equity Action Team
The Racial Equity Collaborative

NCCJSTL works effectively in the interfaith community to build relationships of trust and mutual respect among faith groups and to collaborate in effective public policy work

The Interfaith Partnership of Metropolitan St. Louis (Cabinet Level Membership)
American Jewish Committee (Sponsor AJC Lecture Series)
The Greater Islamic Foundation of St. Louis
The Jewish Community Relations Council (Breakfast Dialogue Group)
The Anti-Defamation League (U.S. Attorneys Hate Crimes Task Force)
Metropolitan Churches United (education equity movement)

Promoting A Vision For Community Transformation for All of Us - Not Just Some of Us!

NCCJSTL's strategic focus is to empowers leaders to change institutions and thereby transform the entire community, making it more inclusive and just. Program strategies for this work include cutting-edge training and technical assistance, intergroup research, and focused public policy work. NCCJSTL is a human relations organization that focuses on a broad range of "isms," the multiple manifestations of discrimination and oppression that are based on one’s religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or other human identity. From bias crimes to racial profiling - the challenges ahead are real. To confront and overcome them, NCCJSTL maintains an abiding commitment to work with decision-makers and leaders to support their work to build an inclusive society.