Doing Right Together for Black Youth
YouthREX is commited to addressing the racial and structural inequities that Black youth and communities across the province experience.
Doing Right Together for Black Youth summarizes what was learned from over 1,500 community members during community consultations to co-develop the Ontario Black Youth Action Plan (BYAP) in 2017.
This report shares the top 10 issues for Black youth and their families, ideas on the best ways to engage Black youth in meaningfully shaping the development and implementation of the BYAP projects, as well as the important characteristics of organizations that can meet the needs of Black youth.
JUNE 2020
Will this be the ONE?
Reflection, Engagement and Action against Anti-Black Racism in Ontario
Related
Resources
These resources were created to share findings from Doing Right Together for Black Youth and to offer critical perspectives on these issues in various accessible formats.
"Black youth have a stake in - and the skills and experience to contribute to - the issues that impact their daily lives. Their involvement is key to resisting the stigma associated with 'Black youth at risk', a stigma that wrongly and violently tells a single story of Black youth in media and public discourses."
- Dr. Uzo Anucha, Lead Author, Doing Right Together for Black Youth
Required Reading & Viewing
These resources provide critical, evidence-based perspectives on the intersecting historical, social, and systemic forces that play out in the lives of Black youth, families, and communities.
REPORT
Towards Race Equity in Education: The Schooling of Black Students in the Greater Toronto Area
York University, 2017
REPORT
This Issue Has Been with Us for Ages:
A Community Assessment of Police Contact Carding in 31 Division
Logical Outcomes, 2014
REPORT
A Better Way Forward: Ontario’s 3-Year Anti-Racism Strategic Plan
Government of Ontario, 2017
ACADEMIC LITERATURE
The Contours of Anti-Black Racism: Engaging Anti-Oppression from Embodied Spaces
Journal of Critical Anti-Oppressive Social Inquiry, 2014
REPORT
One Vision One Voice:
Community Engagement Workers
Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies, 2019
FACTSHEETS
One Vision, One Voice:
Frameworks Summary +
Strategic Map
Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies, 2016
VIDEO
(RE)Imaging Trauma Recovery:
Black Youth Redefining Collective Healing Through Social Action
Society for Social Work & Research, 2020
VIDEO
#KtA2018: Samuel Sinyangwe, Using Data for Racial Justice
YouthREX, 2018
FACTSHEET
TAKE 5: Using Data for Racial Justice by Samuel Sinyangwe
YouthREX, 2018
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