Our Voices
Exclusion – Parents Often the Last to Know
Doreen from Elevated Minds talks about how parents are often the last people to know if a child is facing exclusion. This raises some important questions: Why? Shouldn't schools be [...]
“What can we do to help stop knife crime?”
Chris asks young people at Bede Youth Adventure Project what can be done to help stop knife crime. The children ask for more funding for youth clubs and education to [...]
Would You Talk To Your Family?
... or would you rather talk with a youth worker? In a Let's Talk session held at Bede Youth Adventure Project Chris talks to young people about how they feel [...]
Donya – Look at People from a Positive Viewpoint
Donya talks about how young people are often stereotyped or labelled and young people often feel judged by society, teachers, etc. She says it is far more positive and better [...]
Doreen Sinclair-McCollin – “Your Map Is Not Your Territory”
Doreen Sinclair-McCollin from Elevated Minds talks about the meaning for "Your Map is Not Your Territory" ahdn how she uses this phrase to help young people realise that with a [...]
“It’s not about where you come from; it’s about where you’re going”
Sherifa talks about how mentoring can help with low self-esteem and lack of confidence which may stem from being born on an estate. She talks about how a change of [...]
Sherifa talks on mentoring parents
Sherifa talks about the kind of work she is inolved with helping families and mentoring parents to better cope with their circumstances (34s)
Professionalism, Values and Society
Sherifa talks about how although we have ready access to many kinds of health professionals, from psychotherapists, criminologists and social workers, our society is continually on the brink of crisis, [...]
Let’s Talk – Origins and Purpose
Chris Haydon talks about the origins of CTVT and the 'Let's Talk' project. The Let't Talk project began after a spike in Knife crime in London, and an event was [...]
Media Focus on the Negatives
Black people are often portrayed in a negative light by media who want them to conform to stereotypes. Gang members, stabbings, drugs and violence. But this is something that most [...]
Young People from Elevated Minds Training Police Recruits
Elevated Minds is an organisation that works with young people who are at risk of becoming vulnerable through being excluded from school, or who are regularly absent from school. It [...]
Audio Bites: No Black Female Role Models in the Media
A young black lady feels there is a lack of role models for young black females to look up to
What people have to say…
Sometimes boys just going to football and home ... to basketball and home ... they’re getting stopped and searched and its kind of like a panic for them.
HAP student Year 11
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