racial equity

In order to promote racial healing among diverse youth in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties, the Academy for Better Communities at Barry University’s School of Social Work will provide facilitation, training, consultation, and evaluation of the “Intergroup Dialogue Initiative (IGD),” targeting 7th and 10th grade students.

Providing direct racial healing and cultural awareness to students through a unique, intergroup dialogue process – the initiative comes in response to the documented tensions among the racially/ethnically diverse youth in South Florida. Spanning a two-year period, the project will: increase the number of local interventions; collaborate with partner schools for youth recruitment; train facilitators and provide IGD consultation to school staff and program alumni; collect and analyze data; and extend IGD strategies to serve additional schools and other racial/cultural conflicts. It is the intent to have IGD’s become an important, self-sustaining component of the Miami Dade and Broward counties' school systems and racial healing curriculum – benefiting youth for years to come.