Youth Education

The Young Leaders Emerging (YLE) is a community program for young, Black and racialized people, committed to racial and social justice.

The program offers a space to learn, exchange ideas, support, care, build capacity, increase resilience, and work together in anti-racist and anti-oppressive action.

YLE members will work collaboratively to interrogate and decolonize current practices in the economic justice movement and will look at how they can be part of creating inclusive social justice spaces where Black and minoritized people feel safe, valued, and able to challenge current narratives around economic improvement. As part of this program, YLE members will co-design protype projects that aim to empower Black and minoritized young people to create, navigate and occupy space in the field of social and economic justice with confidence and self-esteem.

All YLE sessions will be facilitated by the AFIWI team with support of external facilitators.

We aim to research and analyze the needs, future training and employment opportunities within the manual trades sector with a focus on young people aged 16-29. The study will aim to better understand young people’s thoughts around manual trades, their participation in programs focussed on the construction industry and manual trades- as well as any barriers or perceptions of the industry. We will also be looking at what routes exist to enter the manual trade industry amongst other areas of concern.