Project Description
OUR PROGRAMMES
We are influencing policy through our Collective Voice
OUR PROGRAMMES
We are influencing policy through our Collective Voice
What we influencing policy through our collective voice
Our members use their collective voice to influence how policy is developed and how services are designed and delivered. They speak up in the interests of all refugees and asylum seekers living in the region.
Our members meet to discuss persisting and emerging challenges. They compare and share evidence from their communities and identify what is common and recurring. They prioritise issues for action and build recommendations for what would work better.
Then we identify opportunities for the collective voice to be heard. This includes speaking up at relevant platforms across the region, or contributing a response to a consultation call or to research, or getting involved in a campaign. And we invite decision makers to events and workshops to hear our voice.
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Our Programmes
We are empowering refugees and asylum seekers to support their communities
Are you a refugee or an asylum seeker living in the North East region with an idea to help your community? We want to help you turn your ideas into action. In the last 3 years we have supported over 100 refugee and asylum seeker community mobilisers, activists and advocates to organise support for their communities, increase their advocacy skills, build community organisations and widen their networks of influence and support.
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We are supporting members to share new, urgent and sometimes difficult messages with their communities
Newly arrived communities need a lot of information to help them adapt quickly to life in the UK with its unfamiliar systems, laws, norms, responsibilities and expectations. Communities are more receptive to messages that are co-produced and delivered by trusted peers.
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We are influencing practice by building the knowledge and skills of front line professionals
We deliver training to front line staff and students that provides insight from lived experiences and builds empathetic understanding about challenges to family resilience, health and wellbeing, and safety. It helps trainees look behind the labels of ‘asylum seeker’ and ‘refugee’ and imagine themselves in their shoes.
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We are influencing policy through our Collective Voice
Our members use their collective voice to influence how strategies and services are designed.
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What we are doing to deliver change
We empower community mobilisers to turn their ideas to support their community into action
We present evidence of what works and what would work better for refugees and asylum seekers
Members meet to share and compare evidence from their communities and identify what needs to change and how
Members broker links between their communities and local services
Members work collaboratively with key services to co-produce messages
We deliver training to social workers on the challenges of parenting and family resilience in the UK
We deliver training to the police on what deters asylum seekers from seeking support as victims of crime
We created video guides for newly arriving families, based on what our members wish they had known
We made video guides for newly arriving families to help them adjust to unfamiliar system, laws and norms
We organise training to help members build their knowledge and skills for effective advocacy in the UK
We deliver training to front line workers to help them gain insight
Members speak up about issues shared across the communities and make recommendations for change
We arrange learning visits for members to local community projects
Members campaign for change
We broker links between members and local services
Members speak up for change
CONTACTS
If you have an idea to improve lives in your community, and want to join action for change, then get in touch with us today.
CONTACTS
If you have an idea to improve lives in your community, and want to join action for change, then get in touch with us today.