Authoring Our Own Stories: Year Three - Explores Emotional Wellbeing and the Value of Intergenerational Dialogue when understanding Mental Health
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Exploring Mental Health Through the Lens of Race and Ethnicity
Authoring Our Own Stories is now in year three! The focus for this year has been on the mental well-being of young people of Black and Asian heritage. We are delighted to have formed new partnerships with Hoxton Hall, National Citizenship Service, Spotlight and Lewisham Young Mayor’s Advisors. Participants from these organisations have offered insight and skills to support peer researchers and workers to develop resources that we hope will be the catalyst of critical thinking and behavioural change on how we understand and work with young Black and Asian people to address the systemic inequalities that so often impact their mental health.
We have been delivering a series of events to explore some of the issues emerging from the work that we are developing through Authoring Our Own Stories. The first was an online session, which looked at the problematic ideology of ‘the strong Black woman’. This will be our focus for research in 2025. We are interested in addressing this construct within the youth sector. We want to better understand how to examine the underlying assumptions we may make about young Black and Brown women’s capacity to endure hardship and cultivate enduring resilience.
To get involved in the research project for 2025 contact sandra.vacciana@cityoflondon.gov.uk.
lara Akingbade, a Young Leader with Authoring Our Own Stories, is proud to launch the first in a series of resources developed for young people to promote conversations about mental wellbeing. Clara created the Wellbeing Gallery with artist and youth worker Ilaria Di Fiore based on data analysis from our research this year. All the Young Leaders engaged in Authoring Our Own Stories facilitated focus groups using the Gallery and helped code and theme the data. This is the final product!
Please use this resource (alongside the ‘How to Use this Resource’ sheet) in your youth projects and share your feedback on how effective you think it is.
Clara Akingbade, a Young Leader with Authoring Our Own Stories, is proud to launch the first in a series of resources developed for young people to promote conversations about mental wellbeing. Clara created the Wellbeing Gallery with artist and youth worker Ilaria Di Fiore based on data analysis from our research this year. All the Young Leaders engaged in Authoring Our Own Stories facilitated focus groups using the Gallery and helped code and theme the data. This is the final product!
Please use this resource (alongside the ‘How to Use this Resource’ sheet) in your youth projects and share your feedback on how effective you think it is.
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