Initiatives and programs
At ADI, we place the lived experiences of community members at the heart of our work, believing that communities should lead and shape the pursuit of transformational justice in the Adirondack Park and beyond. Our programming, outreach, and advocacy primarily concentrate on three areas: Safety & Belonging, Nature Stewardship and Community Building.
Safety & Belonging
Training for police and schools, conversations for workplaces, and retreats where leaders of color and LGBTQIA+ leaders can rest.
Safety & BelongingCommunity Policing Initiative
The goal of our Community Policing initiative is to enhance the relationship between police agencies and the Adirondack communities they serve.
Safety & BelongingCultural Consciousness Building
It’s not diversity training! Our Cultural Consciousness Building is facilitated as active conversations, rooted in education, and tailored to meet the specific needs of the community, organization, or business that initiated our services.
Safety & BelongingWelcoming & Belonging Micro-Credential Course
Our Welcoming & Belonging Micro-credential Course offers local businesses, chambers of commerce, and community groups essential knowledge and best practices for creating inclusive and welcoming spaces for all staff and clientele.
Safety & BelongingSchoolyard Response Toolkit
Resources to help teachers, schools, caregivers & families, and community members respond swiftly and compassionately when a child is targeted.
Safety & BelongingSustaining BIPOC Leadership Initiative
This program aligns with our mission to support racial, social, and economic justice by empowering those who aspire to lead within their communities.
Nature Stewardship
Scholarships, spring breaks, birding days and first trips outdoors, so more people know the Adirondacks as theirs to explore and protect.
Nature StewardshipEmerging Stewards Initiative
The Emerging Stewards Initiative aims to develop new generations of Adirondack stewards from marginalized communities throughout New York State.
Nature StewardshipVisitor Use Management Initiative
Making sure the High Peaks Visitor Use Management plan protects people as well as places, and asks why some people never visit.
Nature StewardshipLand Trust Alliance Initiative
Partnering with land trusts so more people from diverse backgrounds experience and benefit from the natural world.
Nature StewardshipADK Black Birders
A day of birding at John Brown Farm in Lake Placid to build community, deepen our connection to the land, and celebrate Black birders.
Community Building
The symposium, speakers, listening sessions, art, and the celebrations that bring the North Country together.
Community BuildingADI Symposiums
The ADI Symposium is a unique community gathering designed to empower residents, organizations, and businesses to increase understanding and awareness, and enact positive change, toward a more welcoming and inclusive Adirondack North Country.
Community BuildingArts Inclusion Initiative
ADI deeply believes in the impact that art has on inclusion.
Community BuildingListening Series
The practice of listening is fundamental to building understanding.
Community BuildingSpeaker Series
Diverse and knowledgeable speakers from within and beyond the region.
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Cultural Celebrations Support
At ADI, we believe that celebrations can help individuals feel valued and recognized within their community.
Bring ADI to your community
Schools, businesses, agencies and groups can ask ADI for a talk, a training, or a Schoolyard Response Toolkit presentation.