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Annual Planning Chat
Italia
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Hey,
On Thursday 6pm-7.30pm we will be running a special group chat. The purpose of this chat is to give you, The Mix Community, a space to tell us what it is you think The Mix should be focusing on over the next year.
This chat will be lead by Elena who sits on our youth voice panel and will be representing your voices at our Annual Planning day in March. It promises to be light, fun and give you a space to really have your voice heard.
If you would like to attend sign up here: http://bit.ly/APchat
You can also have your say by heading over to @htwohig2412's post here and tell us what you think. The questions on the boards post will be slightly different from the group chat, so we would encourage you to take part in both if you can! We would love to hear your thoughts!
Any questions comment below or drop us a PM!
On Thursday 6pm-7.30pm we will be running a special group chat. The purpose of this chat is to give you, The Mix Community, a space to tell us what it is you think The Mix should be focusing on over the next year.
This chat will be lead by Elena who sits on our youth voice panel and will be representing your voices at our Annual Planning day in March. It promises to be light, fun and give you a space to really have your voice heard.
If you would like to attend sign up here: http://bit.ly/APchat
You can also have your say by heading over to @htwohig2412's post here and tell us what you think. The questions on the boards post will be slightly different from the group chat, so we would encourage you to take part in both if you can! We would love to hear your thoughts!
Any questions comment below or drop us a PM!
“People
who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their
stories are the real badasses.”
- Brene
Brown
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Yeah it is this Thursday the 5th (Sorry for the short notice). Are you free/ keen to come along?
“People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.”
- Brene Brown
"The way that I have found the light in my life is through the expressive arts because I know that I will be accepted for the way I am." ~ Me
"I'm going to get strong again and see you soon. " ~ Anonymous
We are looking forward to seeing you all and hearing what matters most to you in 2020.
Keep an eye out in your PMs and Emails for passwords etc tomorrow morning, and let me know if you have any questions!
It's not too late to sign up if your still thinking about it. Drop @The Mix a PM if you have any questions or are feeling worried about coming along.
“People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.”
- Brene Brown
You have a lot of body confidence ones which are great. Need to be comfortable. But we do need to look after our health physically too
Thank you to those who were able to come along to this chat, and @Shaunie thank you for sharing your ideas, we have made sure they are included.
@Aidan your summary is really helpful, and a good way to keep everyone else in the loop with what kind's of topics came up.
I just wanted to let you know, that we are currently bringing everything together and two of our Youth Voice Panel members are going to present this to the team tomorrow. We will keep you updated.
I hope this week is treating everyone okay.
“People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.”
- Brene Brown
"The way that I have found the light in my life is through the expressive arts because I know that I will be accepted for the way I am." ~ Me
"I'm going to get strong again and see you soon. " ~ Anonymous
Thanks for flagging this - I will add it in today Thanks for letting us know!
I would love to hear more about this from you. Can you tell me a bit more about what kinds of issues within criminal justice system you would like to see, and perhaps why?
Just to help us understand a bit more
“People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.”
- Brene Brown
"The way that I have found the light in my life is through the expressive arts because I know that I will be accepted for the way I am." ~ Me
"I'm going to get strong again and see you soon. " ~ Anonymous
This is a great idea, thanks for sharing. We don't have a huge amount of information about Autism, so it would definitely be good to get some more going. I know that our friends at Ambitious about Autism have heaps of information. They came and did a really amazing youth - led training with some of our staff and volunteers last year, which was quite helpful.
The youth panel presentation has been done now, and I missed your message but I will make sure it gets into the next round of suggestions. The annual planning process will continue for a few more months, so there will be opportunities for this idea to be heard.
“People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.”
- Brene Brown
Thank you to everyone who took part in our Annual Planning chat or contributed to Harry's post here.
Your insights and ideas were so valuable, and Emma from our Youth Voice Panel presented them to the staff last week along with a wide range of other young people's views.
Who did the Youth Voice Panel listen to?
- A group of young people who don't use The Mix also had a say through the Youth Voice Panel members personal social media accounts.
Overall the Youth Voice Panel consulted with over 50 young people.What did we hear?
There were a lot of really helpful ideas, all of which were presented to The Mix staff team skilfully by Emma.
After listening to everyone, the Youth Voice Panel selected three main themes that they recommend The Mix focus on over the next year. These recommendations were based on what came up the most.
These three themes were:
Raise Awareness of The Mix
Interestingly across social media, 28 young people took part in a poll, all of those who had heard of The Mix before were 14 years or under, all those who had never heard of The Mix were 15 or over.
- Would love to hear your thoughts on that?
Hopefulness
Money
These are the three strongest themes which came up, however the Youth Voice Panel still spoke to all of the other things you suggested too.. including but not limited to,
- Men's mental health
- Individual conditions - especially the lesser known ones
- Rights for people with disabilities
- Diets impact on mental health
- Workshops to cope with loneliness
- Not all disabilities are visible - suggestions for talking about invisible disability.
Of course we will still be doing work across all of these areas, so your ideas on these topics are really helpful and will help shape that work in the coming year.You also gave us a lot of ideas on how you would like to be involved in shaping our work - but this post is getting looong.
In a nut-shell - the way we are currently involving you works well and we offer all the options that you suggested for being involved. However we need to find a way to talk about these opportunities and advertise them better - so we will work on that.
Thank you for taking part and helping the Youth Voice Panel shape these recommendations, they are so much more powerful for having your voice at the heart of it.
Any questions or feedback welcome
“People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.”
- Brene Brown
I agree, having autism in there would be really beneficial!
There was a lot of talk about "invisible" conditions, which Autism could totally fit under. Also, as mentioned above this is not a definitive list, and the process is far from over. We can make sure it is included in our next Annual Planning meeting.
If we do some more work in this space, we will let you know.
“People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.”
- Brene Brown