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The Strive to Prosper Project.

Yesterday, The Strive to Prosper Project was at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls to deliver training to the Bright Futures SCITT team around Adultification using a Lived Experience Lens. ✨ We used the story of Kenya to look at how certain viewpoints, attitudes and language used to describe her, removed her vulnerability and innocence. ✨ We spoke about how Parentification in the home & Adultification from professionals led Kenya into a world of exploitation, gangs and violence. ✨ We looked at ways in which certain cultural nuances can be forms of adultification and the dangers this can have on Black children. ✨ We explored at how professionals often have cultural biases about particular cultures, which often results in black children being adultified. ✨ We looked at approaches in which we can safeguard our black children better, by remembering first and foremost they are CHILDREN & should be treated as such & SHOULD be safeguarded and they should NOT be trying to safeguard themselves. ✨ When black children are adultified & parentified, they begin to program this and their childhood and identity is robbed from them, because they believe they have to behave in a particular way. This is dangerous, again leads to a world of extra-familial harm & can have negative implications in adulthood. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ If you will like to know more about what The Strive to Prosper Project do, please do not hesitate to drop a DM or email katrina@strivetoprosper.co.uk. #Training #Adultification #Freelancer #LivedExperience #Safeguarding #RaisingYoungKingsandQueens #Manchester #UnitedKingdom #Gangs #SeriousYouthViolence #Parentification #SafeguardingBlackChildren

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