By offering meaningful social, economic, spiritual, and political alternatives you can discourage participation in hate groups by the very people most vulnerable to recruitment. Target your own community as well as the hate group. The enemy of community harmony is not always the hate group itself, but the existing bigotry and division the group can exploit. For these and other reasons it is also essential to conduct anti-bigotry education programs on an ongoing basis, after the hate group has left your community. Encourage peer-based responses among youth.
Young people respond best to leadership that comes from within their peer group.
While adults can provide valuable resources and insight, it is essential that youth groups develop and cultivate their own leaders and implement programs of their own design to combat bigotry. Remember that hate groups are not a fringe phenomenon and their followers don't always wear white sheets. Although the number of active white supremacists and neo-Nazis probably totals no more than 25,000 in the United States, as many as 500,000 Americans read their literature. This movement is complex and made up of numerous sometimes competing and sometimes cooperating organizations. Broaden your agenda.