Champions Against Violence Workshop 6.3.2012

Champions Against Violence Workshop

Tuesday, 6th March 2012, 10.30am to 3.30pm, at 73 Churchgate, Leicester, LE1 3AN

Champions Against Violence (CAV) is an experiential learning programme for young people, tackling issues of bullying and domestic violence. Diversity Hub (www.diversityhub.org.uk) in collaboration with local schools has been running this programme for almost 3 years. Diversity Hub is now reflecting on our experience of delivering the programme and the evidence gathered through our evaluation with the aim of consolidating our learning for what might come next.

You might come to this workshop if;
• Bullying and domestic violence (DV) is a new area of work for you and you are interested in CAV, or
• You have experience in this area of work and would like an opportunity to share your experiences, or
• …you are interested in influencing what happens next and answering the question……so what?

The final outline of the day will be settled when it is clearer who is coming and what their interest is; at the moment the day could look like:

10.30 start
Hellos and introductions
Then a mix of;
• Outline of Champions Against Violence
• Evidence from the evaluation and feedback from schools
• Challenges and learning for Diversity Hub
• Some Diversity Hub/CAV methodology
With space for questions, comment and discussion.

12.00/12.30 lunch, 13.00/13.30 re start
The afternoon is likely to have three elements;
• An opportunity for people to share there practise relating to DV
• Discussion of the implications for working with young people
• Shaping learning opportunities and youth work responses to DV and young people
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15.00/15.30 Close

There will be no fee for this event, but we will ask you to cover the cost of providing a sandwich lunch.

If you have an interest in participating in the workshop please contact Bill on bill@billmalley.org.uk . Places will be limited, so if you are interested, then please contact Bill asap and no later than, 23rd February to enable us to finalise planning.

Note that the access to the workshop venue is poor. Entry via three flights of stairs. If this creates an access problem for you please speak to Bill and we will organise an alternative venue.

Champions Against Violence!

Back in April Liz, Cindy & Fatima delivered a 3-day Champions Against Violence training, for a group of young people from The Samworth Enterprise Academy, at The Linwood Centre (Saffron Lane).  And what a 3 days it was…what a super group of students and staff they were…what a dedicated Diversity Hub team they were!!  We looked at issues relating to bullying and domestic violence:  how to be assertive; macho man vs mature man; skills to tackle name-calling; what makes a good listener?; where to go for help and support.  We role-played, discussed, debated, agreed, disagreed, laughed, cried and generally worked and played hard whilst studying relevant, serious issues…it doesn’t get better than that!

Liz

Happy Vaisakhi

Good wishes to all of our Sikh friends who celebrated Vaisakhi yesterday and as they move into celebrating Khalsa.

All at Diversity Hub

Change of Address and new telephone

Hi All

Well it has been all change here at Diversity Hub. All change of address that is. We have moved from Wygston’s House to:

Diversity Hub
73 Churchgate
Leicester
LE1 3AN

Tel: 0116 222 9977 Mobile: 07875 585 593 Email: info@diversityhub.org.uk

Look forward to hearing from you all and keeping in touch in our new home.

Decade Lady!

According to Cindy, today, I am the ‘Decade Lady’!  You may well ask what does this mean and it is this…

On February 18^th 2001, I started work at Diversity Hub (or NCBI as we were known then).  Where oh where have 10 years gone?  Well, you know what they say about time flying when you are having fun – that is so true at DH!

I was asked for a few highlights of the past 10 years and that is so difficult.  Mostly, I have loved the way we (staff and volunteer team) support and nurture each other and how, through difficult times, we continue to look to the future.

The support I have received in my work (and through periods of personal loss and sorrow) has been astounding and I think (sadly) rare.  I have grown professionally and personally and count all of our team (past and present) as my valued friends.

I think what is so special about DH is that “we walk the talk“.  We demonstrate this in the services we provide and our treatment of each other.

Here’s to another decade…

Jacquie x              

Millgate Champions Against Violence!

The sun was shining brightly and the birds were singing tra la la!  Actually the weather was a bit dull, the birds were few and far between but…Liz, Cindy and Ian were excited in anticipation of working with 6 young men and 2 members of staff from Millgate School on our Champions Against Violence training.

Last Tuesday and the Tuesday before that, we covered a whole range of topics under the umbrella of bullying and domestic violence.  Young People, Males and Mixed Race People got to say what they didn’t want others to think, do or say about them in Stop Bugging Us groups, which was really good information for the rest of the group and brilliant the young men standing up and taking their space.  Several took their courage in their hands in Speak Outs and shared with the group their personal experiences of domestic violence. It was sobering to hear what they had experienced, but also hopeful and heartwarming that they wanted to talk about it, and trusted the group enough to do it.

On a lighter note we played Pictionary GOES LARGE! beautifully facilitated by Ian.  We were also surprised and delighted to hear from one of the young men that he knew Diversity Hub were on Facebook.  ’Gosh’ we thought to ourselves ‘this social networking really does work!’ until he revealed he’d been looking for the dance group Diversity and found us instead!  Oh well, we haven’t got the fancy dance moves but then you can’t always be good at everything can you?  ;)

Liz

I stepped out of my office yesterday…

Why is that so unusual you may ask?   Well obviously I do move around the building, attend meetings, make drinks, look after the building etc. – but generally I can be found in my office working at my main computer or on the accounts computer – writing funding bids, working on budgets, writing reports, doing the admin and so on.   But yesterday I was delighted to lead a workshop on bid writing.

Five of our young volunteers (Shama, Fatima, Lusinda, Ian and Lyvia) spent the day with me covering the basics of bid writing, listening skills, research and information gathering. It was great to be training again (I used to do it all the time) and find that I wasn’t completely rusty.

Everyone was looking forward to learning some practical skills that will help them write bids (that will generate income for the charity) and that they can use outside of DH. Using a mix of written and practical exercises we achieved this goal.   I was delighted with how well the day went and want to thank everyone for their support.  Now – with their first bid to be worked on – I look forward to supporting the team meet their goals.

Yeah team!!!

Jacquie