JUST Community Leadership Institute

Just Community
Leadership Institute

  

JUST Community is a week long residential experience for youth 15-17 years of age who are ready to confront tough issues and bridge the differences that divide us as people. Fifty Greater Cincinnati high school students are selected to attend and participate in workshops, adventure/challenge activities, ropes courses, and dialogues, along with our counselors and advisors, to create a community that learns to embrace diversity and practice inclusion, equity and justice for all.

Are you: 

• Committed to creating an inclusive community in your school or youth organization 
• Recognized for emerging leadership potential 
• Open to exploring complex issues 
• Ready to change your world! 

JUST Community participants: 

• Take pride in their backgrounds and beliefs 
• Become critical thinkers who seek to understand and suspend judgment 
• Challenge themselves and support others in doing so as well 
• Stretch their comfort zones 
• Define their own style of leadership 
• Become change agents for their communities and schools 

Who will be there?

• Delegates – students from high schools all across the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region

• Adult Advisors – provide experienced insights and well-rounded views into the world beyond high school

• College-Age Counselors – live with the delegates, giving constant guidance and understanding throughout the week

All staff members have completed background checks and participated in training sessions. Many staff members are also JUST Community alumni.

 

July 17-23, 2011
Wilmington College


2011 Registration Documents

Just Community Flyer

Delegate Application

"Honestly I didn’t even know what it was when I signed up for it… When it was over, I found myself wishing I never had to leave. I will never forget the people I met and the lessons I learned there. I wish I could put the whole world through this program."

-2008 Participant

"Our differences make us beautiful. I won't forget my first and last days at JUST Community. I didn't know how changed I would be in just one week."

-2008 Participant

  Imagine a place where your spiritual beliefs are respected and valued. 

Imagine a place where your race is only one part of what defines you, and not the total measure of who you are or will ever be. 

Imagine a place where what it means to be rich, poor or someplace in-between is something you get to define for yourself and not have assumed about you. 

Imagine a place where violence is unnecessary because understanding and respect are actions, not just words.

Imagine a place where being, thinking, feeling or loving someone different isn't wrong, bad or immoral… it's just different. 

For more information about the 2011 JUST Community Leadership Institute, contact Shawn Jeffers atshawn.jeffers@bridgescincinnati.org.