InIt - The Leadership Initiative

The Leadership InItiative – known as InIt - unites a highly diverse group of students from the city and the suburbs, public and private schools, and many different personal backgrounds. InIt grows out of a trusting community formed by these highly diverse youth. That community allows teens to discuss tough issues like race, class, and gender that affect them personally and often divide society. They understand themselves more fully and can set new goals. They then pursue those goals as leaders - both in their personal lives and also in schools and communities. BCCJ takes InIt students through that process - from learning to leading.

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An InIt year includes:

• The powerful overnight “InIt Immersion Week” at Rolling Ridge, North Andover in August – packed with exercises, discussions, and training to deepen understanding of diversity, society, and self.
• InIt program days meet monthly on Saturdays to help students stay focused, build new skills and strengthen the new InIt community they have established during Immersion Week.
• Coaching and support all year to help delegates take action as leaders
• The opportunity for mentoring from BCCJ’s adult alumni
• BCCJ Youth Council activities such as the fall retreat, reunions, Friday Night Flicks and special events
• A spring graduation and celebration ceremony
• Lifelong membership in the BCCJ Alumni Network along with adults and businesses who care about social responsibility, diversity and social justice

Examples of leadership InIt alums take include:

• Running student assemblies about ways class, race, and sexual orientation affect today’s youth
• Educating younger teens about racial diversity and helps them run presentations for others
• Founding a Diversity Alliance to bring all a school’s culture and diversity groups together

Delegations from the following schools and organizations are represented in the InIt Class of 2010:

Thanks for your support and sponsorship of InIt! 

Dana Farber Cancer Institute
National Grid
The Boston Latin School Foundation
The Charlotte Foundation
The Devonshire Foundation
The Milton Interfaith Clergy Association
The Sheehan Family Foundation