Roots to Change

The Roots to Change podcast is hosted by Donya Lamrhari, Systems Change Lead at the Children's Society (https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/), a national children's charity. Our goal is to overturn the damaging decline in children's wellbeing by 2030 and we know that to do this systemic change is needed. The Children's Society defines Systems Change as a process of working collaboratively with people to understand and address the root causes of disadvantage for young people; an approach to redesigning and influencing the people, processes, rules, power and structures that make up systems, to achieve positive change. This podcast aims to make Systems Change accessible, by interviewing inspiring professionals and young people in the community and sharing their stories of change.

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Episodes

The Young Changemakers Movement

In this episode , I interview two incredibly self-aware, compassionate and driven young people Ashleigh & SJ who participated in the Young Changemakers programme , a collaboration between UK Youth, Centre for Mental Health and Diana Award. We talk about what systems change means to them, their experiences of racial inequality in the mental health and education systems and they discuss their social action projects ' Team Not So Micro ' and ' Team Change '. Trigger Warning: this episode contai...

Jan 30, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Intersectionality: Exploring our Identity

In this episode , I interview a stand-out leader Craig Pinkney , criminologist, youth specialist and chief executive of SOLVE, the center for youth violence & conflict ( https://solvecyvc.com/home) . We talk about his journey into youth work, why self-exploration is so important for systems change and what it means to be anti-racist. Trigger Warning: this episode contains reference to violence. If you are affected by any of the issues raised, please check out the link below for further suppo...

Jun 22, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Part 2 YLCSC What do we stand for in the UK?

Part 2 This is a 2 part episode, featuring an inspirational group of young people known as the Youth Led Commission on Separated Children (YLCSC) and Hilda, Youth Led Campaigns officer at the Children's Society. They are campaigning for all unaccompanied young refugees, who arrive in the UK alone to get a legal guardian. In these episodes we hear from Phoenix, Ayo, ibrahim, TJ and Ope and it features the song 'Human Kindness' by singer, songwriter Carrie Tree https://carrietree.bandcamp.com/trac...

Mar 15, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Part 1 YLCSC 'They see you as a document, they don't see you as a human'

Part 1 This is a 2 part episode, featuring an inspirational group of young people known as the Youth Led Commission on Separated Children (YLCSC) and Hilda, Youth Led Campaigns officer at the Children's Society. They are campaigning for all unaccompanied young refugees, who arrive in the UK alone to get a legal guardian. In these episodes we hear from Phoenix, Ayo, ibrahim, TJ and Ope and it features the song 'Human Kindness' by singer, songwriter Carrie Tree https://carrietree.bandcamp.com/trac...

Mar 15, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Cultural Competency and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

In this episode I interview Ghino Parker, Centre director at Barnardo's who has worked across many communities to ensure that diverse voices are heard. In this episode we talk about: Systems Change as 'common sense youth work' Kimberle Crenshaw's movement around intersectionality Cultural competency crucial for Systems Change Real life examples of applying cultural competency Resources: Kimberle Crenshaw TED talk intersectionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o Ghino Parker TED tal...

Mar 02, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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