Programs

Law Enforcement Training
ADL offers a variety of interactive training opportunities for law enforcement professionals including extremist training and hate crime training. The St. Louis Regional office of ADL has a long track record of working effectively with the law enforcement community to combat extremist groups and the threat they pose to American security.

Glass Leadership Institute
Recognizing the need to build a younger constituency, this program provides a forum to educate young Jewish leaders about ADL and contemporary issues relating to the Jewish people and Israel. The GLI is a tool to help build the next generation of ADL leaders by providing these promising young adults with leadership skills and an understanding of the Jewish community both in the U.S. and abroad.

Diversity Awareness Partnership
The Diversity Awareness Partnership is a collaboration of more than 30 St. Louis organizations that have demonstrated leadership in diversity work and have combined resources to create an inclusive community on every level, a community that celebrates diversity and practices equality. Themed Make a Difference by Accepting Everyone Else's, the Partnership's efforts are designed to promote the value of difference and to reduce bias and discrimination in both individuals and institutions.

Concepts of Beauty and Bias
The Concepts of Beauty and Bias program, in collaboration with the Saint Louis Art Museum, provides opportunities for middle and high school students to study selected works of art from differing cultures across various time periods to consider how the standards of beauty vary from time period to time period and from culture to culture. Before visiting the museum, students have the opportunity to develop descriptive, analytical and evaluation skills needed to investigate and appreciate “works of art” from an anti-bias perspective.

Reading Bias/Writing Tolerance
The Missouri History Museum and the St. Louis regional office of the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute are collaborating on a dynamic and innovative program, Reading Bias/Writing Tolerance: Using History's Powerful Stories. This multidimensional program developed with grant funds, meets a number of needs identified by teachers.

No Place For Hate®
No Place for Hate® is a program that enables people to challenge anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, and all forms of bigotry in their communities and schools. No Place for Hate® in schools seeks to provide a model for combating intolerance, bullying and hatred, leading to long-term solutions to these problems in schools.

Give Respect Get Respect
The A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute, as a member of the Diversity Awareness Partnership launched the Give Respect – Get Respect Youth Program as 5 years ago, and connected middle and high school students and their teachers from 24 schools throughout the St. Louis region in an effort to address the increasing diversity in today's schools and encourage acceptance and respect among one another. Working with Edward Jones, whose associates also take part in the program, they create a link for the students between school and the workplace.

Peer Training Program
The A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute Peer Training Program was founded in 1991 while working with students from Clara Burton High School following the riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Since 1991, over 7,000 young people have been trained as Peer Trainers, and the program is now operating throughout the United States and in 15 countries overseas.

Preschool Anti-Bias Initiative
ADL's Preschool Anti-Bias Initiative was designed to help create and sustain early childhood classroom and home environments that encourage children to appreciate diversity at an age when the seeds of hate begin to take root. Through curriculum materials designed by the A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute, the Initiative offers stimulating, experiential and age-appropriate resources and activities for use within the preschool setting.

Legislative Action
The ADL takes an active role in identifying emerging issues as they take place in Washington and helping to craft legislative and policy initiatives. A national network of ADL activists assumes a key role in educating and activating Regional leadership, which is crucial to the advancement of the League's legislative priorities.

A World of Difference® Institute
The A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute is an international institute with anti-bias and diversity education programs used by schools, universities, corporations and community law enforcement agencies throughout the United States and abroad. Founded in Boston in 1985 when the Anti-Defamation League and WCVB-TV joined together to fight prejudice, the A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute came to St. Louis in 1987.

Meyer and Marcelle Kranzberg Memorial Scholarship
The Kranzberg Memorial Scholarship was established to recognize young people who have made outstanding contributions to the Jewish community. The winners are chosen among a number of youth nominated by Jewish community leadership.

Confronting Anti-Semitism
The Confronting Anti-Semitism Project empowers the Jewish community to identify and respond to acts of anti-Semitism and to challenge the anti-Semitic stereotypes at the root of such acts. CAS Programs, which take place in synagogues, religious schools, Jewish community centers, youth groups and camps, are designed as two hour, interactive family workshops geared towards students in grades 6-12 and their parents. Led by trained facilitators from the ADL, the workshops are based upon a series of video vignettes that help promote healthy discussions, the sharing of personal experiences, and the group exploration of effective strategies to fight anti-Semitism. Recently the Kranzberg Family Foundation awarded the ADL a grant to expand CAS to 20 and 30 somethings, called the Millennials, who are often removed from the anti-Semitism experienced by their parents and grandparents.

Racial Equity Collaborative
The Racial Equity Collaborative (REC) was founded in July 2002 by Anti-Defamation League of Missouri and Southern Illinois, The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiative, FOCUS St. Louis, National Conference for Community and Justice – St. Louis Region, and RegionWise. These founding partners are united in the fervent belief that for this region to prosper as a healthy community in which to live, learn, and work; racism must be addressed with the clear goal of accomplishing measurable, positive, and significant change.

Cyber-Bullying: "Trickery, Trolling, and Threats"
The ADL is very concerned about the increase of cyber-bullying on the Internet. For the current generation of teens, e-mailing, IM-ing, text-messaging, chatting and blogging are a vital means of self-expression and a central part of their social lives. There are increasing reports that many are misusing online technologies to bully and harass others, and even to incite violence against them.

Tear Down the Walls
A brand new initiative with St. Louis Jewish rocker, Rick Recht, Tear Down The Walls builds on our NAMES anti-bias program, and includes a special concert featuring Rick's album released in December 2005. Teens participate in a multi-session peer training program which is enhanced by Rick's music.

US Attorney’s Hate Crimes Task Force
The idea to develop a regional response to hate crimes and bias incidents grew out of the St. Louis 2004 Living Together in Community Task Force. The task force brought together more than 70 representatives of organizations and agencies engaged in the work of decreasing racism, bias, bigotry and discrimination and promoting diversity and inclusion from throughout the region.

Israel Task Force
The Israel Task Force is a very successful component of the ADL's advocacy agenda. The group aims to counteract the dissemination of inaccurate and misleading information about the conflict in the Middle East, and to address the global rise in anti-Semitism as it relates to public's perceptions of Israel and Middle Eastern politics.

Names Can Really Hurt Us
Names Can Really Hurt Us is an anti-bias program, geared toward middle and high school students, to combat name-calling and prejudice. Developed in 1995 by the A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute, NAMES was created in response to educators' requests for a vehicle to teach students respect for differences.