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Inclusion Network

Inclusion Network. Supporting BAME young people in youth organisations. Fiyin Oyedele. Voyage Youth. Sabah Choudrey. Gendered Intelligence. working with BAME trans youth. Sabah Choudrey. @ Genderintell @ SabahChoudrey. About GI. Who is Gendered Intelligence?.

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Inclusion Network

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  1. Inclusion Network Supporting BAME young people in youth organisations

  2. Fiyin Oyedele Voyage Youth

  3. Sabah Choudrey Gendered Intelligence

  4. working with BAME trans youth Sabah Choudrey @Genderintell @SabahChoudrey

  5. About GI Who is Gendered Intelligence? Community Interest Company est. 2008 Our vision is a world where people are no longer constrained by narrow perceptions and expectations of gender, and where diverse gender expressions are visible and valued Our aim is to increase understandings of gender diversity and improve trans people’s quality of life • Work with all those who impact on trans lives • Specialise in supporting young trans people from 8 to 30 years old Everyone can be intelligent about gender!

  6. Increasing understandings of gender diversity and improving trans people’s quality of life

  7. About GI Who am I?

  8. How confident are you with your knowledge on trans people/issues?

  9. Break (30 minutes)

  10. What are the experiences of our BAME trans young people? “When given the space and resources and compassion, I can look after myself better and I can rest better.” “I’m a non-binary lesbian, I’m Chinese and I’m proud” “Feeling like I’m part of a community, I’m not weird or other or alien here. I’m home.”

  11. About GI How to support BAME trans young people Our role as youth workers What am I doing as a youth worker to think about my cis privilege/white privilege? What am I doing as a youth worker to integrate anti-racist, anti-Islamophobic and trans-positive practice? What am I doing as a youth worker to celebrate trans people of colour?

  12. About GI How to support BAME trans young people Our role in a youth setting How does my youth space ensure trans people of colour are safe?

  13. About GI How to support BAME trans young people We do have differences and that’s okay Focus on your language – naming transphobia/racism/Islamophobia, calling it what it is What is considered ‘neutral’ in our space? Is it really ‘neutral’? Take an intersectional approach – when looking at gender expression, look at race and culture too Think about planning and outreach, welcomes and first sessions, setting up a safe space – what does this look like for a BAME trans young person?

  14. About GI Further information ‘BAME LGBTQ Youth Workers Network’ Facebook group ‘Inclusivity: Supporting BAME Trans People’ https://t.co/fBGl2ARDkl blackgirldangerous.org beyondthebinary.co.uk

  15. Resources and links • GI info & resources • Trans youth sexual health booklet & others: genderedintelligence.co.uk/professionals/resources • Knowledge is Power: • genderedintelligence.co.uk/KIP • Law: Equality Act (2010) protected characteristic: Gender Reassignment • Trans/ gender & queer theory favourites: • Meg-John Barker & Alex Iantaffi: How to understand your gender (2017) • Kate Bornstein – My Gender Workbook (2013) • b.binoahan – decolonising trans/gender 101 (2014) • TravisAlabanza.co.uk – black trans-femme artist, performer, writer • Soofiya.com – intersectional feminism, non-binary, Muslim, zines, art • Cartoons: Adventure Time, Stephen Universe (non-binary, feminist, queer characters & stories) • Non-binary gender factsheet http://www.allabouttrans.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/non-binary-gender-factsheet.pdf

  16. Good Practice – Toilet Image thank you sabah.choudrey@genderedintelligence.co.uk @Genderintell @SabahChoudrey

  17. Andrew Crisp UpRising

  18. UpRising - Theory of Change

  19. UpRising • UpRising is a national youth leadership development organisation. We are recognised at Government-level as a pioneering charity championing the critical issues surrounding diversity, social mobility and equality. • Our important work provides routes to leadership and employment for 18-25 year olds who have talent, but lack opportunity. • The mission is to break the cycle of unrepresentative power in the UK, by developing new, community-minded and socially-conscious leaders; so that our future decision-makers truly represent our diverse communities.

  20. Our Programmes • Leadership/Environmental Leadership programme • Runs ene evening, every other week for nine months • Young people attend alongside 40 like-minded and diverse future leaders • Get to know top UK leaders and discover how they make decisions that affect them. • Meet campaigners and organisations fighting for social change and learn first-hand how they do it. • Create their own social action campaign to make a difference on the issue they care about most. • Fastlaners employability programme • 8 day programme, running four times a year. • Unemployed young people (18-25 years old) • Employability skills workshops (CV writing, mock interviews, networking skills etc.) • Visits to a variety of different London-based employers.

  21. Who we work with • 18-25 year olds in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff and Luton. • Our mission is to help young people from underrepresented background. • In most regions in which that we work this means that the majority of the people that we work with are from BAME backgrounds.

  22. Theory of Change • Our Theory of Change underpins the work that we do across our programmes, especially our Leadership Programme. • We believe that we can help young people on their path to leaderships by working on four key areas with them over the course of our programmes. • Knowledge, Networks, Skills and Confidence.

  23. Knowledge • Those in power and leadership positions demystify the ever changing local, national and international power landscape - they open their doors and tell their stories. • For example, we run a session called ‘Parliament, policies and the people behind them’ that takes young people to parliament for the day. • Participants understand the opportunity for individuals to contribute to change, and how this fits with their own abilities and interests.

  24. Networks • Peer support: participants work with a cohort, who coach each other, and subsequent cohorts. They come together as regional and national alumni – a self-governing network with Uprising support. • Senior networks: participants build relations with senior leaders and role models (speakers and mentors) who support their learning and broker informal pathways to power. Alumni events will also continue throughout the year. • By building social, professional and cultural networks, participants gain a better understanding of our ever changing world and how to effectively navigate it as well as having concrete opportunities to tap into it.

  25. Skills • We identify the skills needed to contribute to influencing existing power structures, and deliver training to develop those skills. • For example, we run sessions on public speaking, goal setting, project management, effective campaigning, and personal branding.

  26. Confidence • Each young person leads their own social action campaign. • They identify real community need and design and deliver an action to deliver on that need. They gain the confidence and learning that comes from practical experience. • Young people will also be given an opportunity to pitch their campaign to a panel of leaders from organisations across London.

  27. Inclusion Sports Festival Emma Thome, Sports & Culture Learning Assistant

  28. Policy Update Samuel Howell, Policy Officer

  29. Policy Advisory Group • We want to put our members at the heart of the policy and media work that we do to best represent you and the youth sector in London. • The support and expertise of our incredibly diverse membership of 450+ youth organisations across London is our biggest strength in making a case for strong and sustainable support for young people. • Sign up here: https://londonyouth.wufoo.com/forms/zfgee4a1y11juf/

  30. Policy priorities

  31. Champion London Youth https://londonyouth.org/champion/

  32. Upcoming consultations • Commons Women & Equalities Committee: Mental Health of Men and Boys Inquiry • Closes: Mon 18 Feb • Consultation workshop: Mon 4 Feb • Department for Education: Out-of-school Settings Voluntary Safeguarding Code of Practice • Closes: Sun 24 Feb • Comments by: Fri 15 Feb • London Assembly Economy Committee: Tackling the Disability Employment Gap • Closes: Mon 4 Mar • Consultation workshop: Mon 18 Feb (TBC)

  33. Updates • Mayor of London: Review of MPS’s Gangs Matrix • Grant Givers Movement: Discrimination, Prejudice & Isomorphism • Joseph Rowntree Foundation: UK Poverty 2018 • IPPR: Move On Up? Social mobility, opportunity and equality in the 21stCentury • London Violence Reduction Unit

  34. Keep in touch Samuel.Howell@londonyouth.org, 07553 1013177 • @LondonYouth • @London_Youth • /LondonYouth • London Youth • Londonyouth.org/newsletter #ChampionLondonYouth

  35. Thank you for coming! Next meeting is in April marco.alidoro@londonyouth.org

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