National Inclusion Week 2020
The theme this year is ‘Each One Reach One’ and its aim is to bring people and organisations together to connect and inspire each other to make inclusion an everyday reality.
The theme for National Inclusion Week 2020 is Each One, Reach One. It is about the opportunity that we all have to connect with someone else, or another organisation, to help them understand the opportunity of inclusion and connect. It is about individuals and organisations connecting and inspiring each other to make inclusion an everyday reality. Together, we will build the biggest inclusion chain ever.
Over the past few weeks we’ve been challenging our staff and the people who interact with our services to think about inclusion and what it means for them, and to ask questions of each other, to share knowledge and spread messages of diversity and inclusion throughout our Trust.
This week, we’re bringing this together and sharing it here to encourage us all to reflect on our own personal views of inclusion, and those of the people around us.
What does inclusion mean to you?
Inclusion means different things to different people.
Here is an inspiring film of our colleagues across different sites sharing what inclusion means to them, helping us all to recognise the role we have to play in creating positive change.
Why is inclusion important? – a panel discussion
Tricia Thorpe, our Videography and Anti-Stigma Lead, posed some questions to our panel of colleagues.
Panel:
- Wendy Tangen, Clinical Services Inclusion Lead and Chair of the Workforce Race and Equality Network (WREN)
- Kate Ward, Occupational Therapist and Chair of Rainbow Alliance the Trust’s LGBT+ network
- Munyaradzi Musasa, Community Mental Health Nurse
Watch a film of the discussion.
A message from our Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Caroline Bamford
“I believe that through encouraging each other to reach out, connect and taking time to have a conversation and learn from each other is a great way to celebrate National Inclusion Week. Building an inclusive culture is about everyone, and we all have a part to play.”
You can read Caroline’s blog for Inclusion Week: https://bit.ly/365LtfV
National Inclusion Week event in Leeds
Leeds City Council are hosting a digital partnership event, to share ways in which we can foster more diverse and inclusive workplace cultures.
It’s taking place on Thursday 1 October between 12.30pm and 2.30pm and you can find out more and book your place via Eventbrite.
What next?
We are committed to making our Trust an inclusive family – one where we can all work together to make real and lasting change happen. Our workforce is diverse, as are the communities we serve.
We’ve been introducing a number of new initiatives to do more to foster a culture of compassion, inclusion and belonging where we support each other. We are also encouraging all our staff to learn more about diversity, inclusivity, understanding prejudices that can shape our lives as well as exploring the health inequalities of our diverse communities.
Further information for LYPFT staff: https://bit.ly/WellbeingHubLYPFTStaff
Serving our diverse communities
We serve the diverse communities of Leeds and York and we aim to consistently deliver inclusive services, to meet their needs and make every effort to ensure that individuals are valued and treated with respect and dignity.
We know that sometimes people face discrimination and barriers to services because of any of the following characteristics; age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. As a provider of mental health and learning disability services, we are aware of the difficulties and distress caused by stigma and discrimination.
Equality, diversity and fairness are at the heart of our five year strategy: ‘Living our values to improve health and lives 2018 – 2023’. We believe we have a collective duty to tackle this and promote more positive attitudes and behaviour.