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Marketing & Communication
Marketing & Communication
Part of the Anti-Hate Project with OASD is marketing and communication plan on raising awareness of identity-based harm. This was occurred in multiple ways:
Outreach and engagement during lunch tabling opportunities alongside surveys and interviews held.
Artwork created in previous Anti-Hate Campaign was decided to be used for marketing within this project instead of creating new artwork - stickers and posters were printed as giveaways.
Other giveaway items to promote anti-hate messaging involved lanyards during lunch tabling, sweaters for Youth Interns and staff, and water tumblers for participants in the photovoice and focus group.
Anti-Hate Artwork can be seen and downloaded on the BBAY webpage: https://www.brooklynsallianceforyouth.org/anti-hate-initiative
Outreach and Engagement
Outreach and Engagement
Outreach and Awareness at OASD Schools
Between November 21, 2024, and December 19, 2024, a series of youth engagement events were conducted to gather input from students at Park Center Senior High School and Osseo Senior High School. The events consisted of lunch tabling sessions focused on surveys and interviews, as well as a virtual focus conversation with members of the Youth OnBoard (YOB) at Park Center and general BBAY resource information. Over the course of five events, a total of 142 students were engaged, providing critical feedback and insights on various topics related to youth’s outlook on anti-hate. The highest turnout occurred during the lunch tabling survey event at Osseo Senior High on November 26, where 50 students actively participated. Staff members Bolatito, Kris, Alondra, Chia, and Mo played pivotal roles in facilitating the events, ensuring a welcoming environment that encouraged students to share their thoughts. Notably, the virtual focus conversation with Park Center YOB allowed for more in-depth discussions, with a smaller group of four participants. The data collected from these events will serve as an important foundation for improving the implementation of the Identity-Based Harm Protocol, ensuring that student voices are at the center of ongoing efforts.
2024 Youth to Youth Survey Insights
2024 Youth to Youth Survey Insights
Background
The Brooklyn Bridge Alliance for Youth conducts a biennial survey to capture the experiences and insights of young people in the Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center area. This year’s Youth to Youth Survey provided a unique opportunity for collaboration with the Anti-Hate Project in adding questions related to identity-based harm and safety. The Youth to Youth Survey utilizes a Youth-led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) approach in collaborating with youth in equipping them with the knowledge and skills to collect and evaluate data as they engage their community. A Youth Data Squad (YDS) was created with 2 BBAY staff and 6 Youth Interns in order to create, implement, and conduct surveys through the 2024 summer months into the fall. The survey engaged youth and captured the diverse perspectives and lived experiences of youth today throughout the Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center area. The YDS surveyed 411 youth at 34 community events.
There were six themes throughout the Youth to Youth Survey. In collaboration with the Anti-Hate Initiative, questions were added to address safety and anti-hate. The Anti-Hate Youth Interns created survey questions pertaining to incidences of hate or bullying (#17) and likelihood of reporting incidences (#18) which were added to the 2024 Youth to Youth Survey. Additional questions pertaining to safety included questions from previous Youth to Youth Surveys on rating safety in their home, school, and neighborhood (#19) and an open-ended question to further gather input of how to make spaces safer (#20)*.
*Please refer to the 2024 Youth to Youth Survey.
Discussion
Overall, 1 in 5 youth indicated they have been a target of hate or bullying based on their identity at school within the last school year. Overall, it was also indicated that 53% of youth would likely report an incident if it happened to them. There were significant differences in how likely youth would report incidences at school depending on the situations identified: (1) if it happened to them, (2) if they witnessed it, (3) if it was between students, (4) if it was a student towards a teacher/adult, and (5) if it was a teacher/adult towards a student.
Those who answered yes to being a target of hate for bullying ranged from 10-23 years of age with a bulk of youth being 12 to 17 years old. Out of the 84 who reported an incident within the last school year, about 58% answered they would likely report an incident if it happened to them. We are unsure whether they did or did not report their previous incident of hate or bullying. They were also more likely to identify as being female and Black American or African.
When Osseo Area School District youth is disaggregated from the overall surveyed youth, 17% reported being a target of hate or bullying in the last school year. The likelihood of youth reporting from OASD is represented in the table below.
Youth were also asked about safety at home, at school, and in their neighborhood. On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being Never and 5 being Always), 26% of youth from OASD answered they “Always” felt safe at school (36% rated “4” and 32% rated “3: Sometimes”). Youth were also asked suggestions of making spaces safer on the 2024 Youth to Youth Survey. Within the district, youth provide a range of comments:
Less weapons and less violence
More security (cameras, law enforcement, at schools, within community)
Spaces or people to turn to for help and support
Spread kindness, positivity, and collaboration
*Osseo Area School District is represented by youth ages 11-17 years old and from Brooklyn Middle, North View Middle, Osseo Middle, Maple Grove Middle, Osseo HS, and Park Center HS. All percentages (%) are rounded up to the whole number. Percentages are not 100% due to some who skipped to answer. For more information regarding data from the 2024 Youth to Youth Survey, please contact Chia Xiong, chia.xiong@brooklynsallianceforyouth.org.
2024 Youth to Youth Survey
2024 Youth to Youth Survey
2024 Youth Data Squad out in the community conducting the Youth to Youth Survey.
2024 Brooklyns Youth to Youth Survey DRAFT V4.docx (1).pdfTrainings Provided - YFL & ToP
Trainings Provided - YFL & ToP
As part of the larger BBAY work, we provided multiple training opportunities for the Anti-Hate Project Team. The Youth as Facilitative Leaders (YFL) Training was provided for Youth Interns and the ToP Facilitative Methods Training was provided to BBAY staff as part of the Anti-Hate Project.
Youth as Facilitative Leaders
The YFL Training is a youth-adapted version of the ToP Facilitative Methods of Focused Conversations and Consensus Workshop. One of our Youth Interns co-facilitated a YFL training and other Youth Interns were able to attend the other trainings held. Overall, YFL provided a resource for youth to use in developing materials for various parts of the evaluation of the Identity-based Harm Protocol.
ToP Facilitation Methods
The BBAY hosted a ToP Facilitation Methods Training for staff to attend in developing their skills in facilitation. This was essential in leading discussion and workshops for the project team as well as for the different evaluation methods used. It also served as a resource in the YFL training and materials for our Youth Interns to use.
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