POWER THE FIGHT 

To support Power the Fight with the delivery and development of your Therapeutic Intervention for Peace Programme (TIP) in three secondary schools in South East London.

Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift

This grant will empower Black children and young people from Southwark and Lewisham to deliver Social Action in their community.

Power the Fight tackles violence affecting young people. They work to create long-term solutions for sustainable change and act as a link between the community and policy makers. This grant will fund ....more

Power the Fight tackles violence affecting young people. They work to create long-term solutions for sustainable change and act as a link between the community and policy makers. This grant will fund an event and accompanying report to highlight the contributions of Black professionals in safeguarding Black children in the UK. The event will foreground anti-racist methods of knowledge creation and healing.

Increasing culturally competent training and services for BAME communities in London to reduce incidents of youth violence

Power The Fight was launched in 2019 in response to the UK?s rapid increase in serious youth violence and its disproportionate impact on people of colour. Our vision is a society in which no young ....more

Power The Fight was launched in 2019 in response to the UK?s rapid increase in serious youth violence and its disproportionate impact on people of colour. Our vision is a society in which no young person is the victim or perpetrator of violence. This translates to a just world in which no child or young person experiences racial injustice, social inequality or developmental trauma, requiring all community members and service providers to acknowledge and challenge the root causes of these interrelated factors. We want to implement ?Therapeutic Intervention For Peace? (TIP) in multiple London Boroughs over three years, working with schools, youth service providers and educational and health professionals. TIP will deliver an innovative, evidence-based model to address the lack of relevant and accessible therapeutic support available in the aftermath of traumatic loss resulting from youth violence, as well as to young people at risk of involvement in violence before such an event occurs. By providing a new approach to psychological support for individuals and families affected, TIP will forge new ways to improve mental health and reduce youth violence in BAME communities. We aim to show the positive impact of a culturally competent, co-designed therapeutic service on the mental health of communities of colour, its potential for indirect social and economic benefits, and the possibility to interrupt cycles of youth violence for lasting change. This is particularly important at the present time, given the acknowledged systemic inequalities and injustices experienced by communities of colour, which have been further exposed and exacerbated by the Covid19 pandemic. As Comic Relief recognises, poor mental health is a major global problem. For individuals and families in minoritized communities, services which could help following trauma often seem to neither understand nor reflect them. Combined with deep-rooted cultural stigmas around psychological help, accessing mental health services is effectively unavailable to this group. Structural inequalities and barriers continue even when it comes to getting much-needed support. Our intention over three years is to develop and refine an effective culturally competent therapeutic model, with a longer-term vision for Power The Fight to share TIP's strategies and learning with organisations beyond London and to equip them to deliver similar services across the UK. We aim, therefore, to contribute to a national reduction in racial inequalities and associated poor mental health outcomes for communities of colour.

Towards unrestricted core costs to expand culturally competent training and services in diverse communities, partnering with schools, councils and others to address the racial injustice contributing ....more

Towards unrestricted core costs to expand culturally competent training and services in diverse communities, partnering with schools, councils and others to address the racial injustice contributing to youth violence

A grant of £4000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.