Program: The Give Respect Get Respect Youth Program, sponsored by Edward Jones,is a yearlong anti-bias program to be administered during the 2011 – 2012 school year.  The program connects middle and high school students, their teachers/advisors, and Edward Jones associates in an effort to raise awareness around diversity issues and encourage respect and acceptance among peers/co-workers. 

The program gives students, teachers, and Edward Jones associates tools to become leaders within their schools or workplaces, identify and feel comfortable speaking about different diversity issues, and help break down the walls that separate people from each other. 

Two Edward Jones associates work with each 2 students from each school in a mentoring capacity in an effort to create a link between school and the workplace.  The program also offers participants an opportunity to get to know each other outside of the training sessions in the form of attendance at a St. Louis Cardinals home game (based upon ticket availability).  The program is facilitated by Diversity Awareness Partnership facilitators who will support the dialogue and discussion component of the program in the break-out rooms.  Break-out rooms are facilitated by competent and trained diversity facilitators hired by the Diversity Awareness Partnership.