YOUTH PROGRAMS

Programming for Youth Locally, Statewide, and Nationally

The LGBTQ+ Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights cultivates the next generation of advocates by engaging our most dynamic and diverse community leaders and organizations committed to human dignity. We do this by connecting LGBTQ+ history to our present advocacy and by facilitating educational initiatives, social programming, and civic engagement with a particular focus on the US South. The Institute acknowledges that youth and young adults, both historically and currently, play a huge role in advocating for the communities who are most marginalized, mobilizing values-aligned advocates for social justice, and working with a broad and diverse group of cross-generational leaders, mentors, and community members who are committed to justice for all.

Whether it be through monthly programming that integrates history, advocacy education, and the arts and performance monthly YOU(th) Belong events held throughout Metro Atlanta, or our first National Youth Advocacy Corps who are learning from advocacy experts and practitioners to shape their own policy, research, educational, or creative interventions, or our Georgia Youth Advocacy Fellowship, where young leaders, statewide, convene monthly to get critical learning and development about how to mobilize for a range of social justice issues that will impact their experiences as young people in or from Georgia.

Finally, special programming such as the YOU(th) Belong Freedom Summer 3.0, enables the LGBTQ+ Institute at National Center for Civil and Human Rights to deepen its investment in youth advocacy, believing that future leaders will be cultivated right here at our center, through our programming and leadership development.