Tuesday, 13 October 2009

SAAN Potential Future Activities

Subject to the agreement of the organisation, the list of activities is growing and it reads as follows:

[1] Working with Connexions in addressing NEETs [Not in Education, Employment or Training] who are of Somali origin. This includes helping to produce a database of those aged under 21 in the West London Alliance boroughs and sharing this data with other interested bodies. This could involve a massive amount of research and will look to be backed by the LEA [Local Education Authority] bodies in the boroughs concerned.

[2] Following on from the above, working to engage the ever-growing prison/youth offender/mentally ill population of Somalis. Helping to produce an outreach system that has been sorely lacking, in particular re-integrating inmates from HMP/youth offender institutes back into society with existing organisations who can provide the necessary support. This could include a process that begins engaging inmates in said institutions and working with them through to their release date and re-integration back into general population.

[3] Working with the law enforcement professionals in helping to disseminate information to the previously excluded Somali community in West London and possibly beyond. This provides the ideal opportunity for those members of the community to dictate to the servants of the public what they are expecting from their law officers. The emphasis here is on engagement and change.

[4] Moving into First Base/UPG office space along the Uxbridge Road, in Shepherd's Bush; with a view to helping the organisation grow from strength to strength.

Our presence was felt at the Community Relations Group meeting on Monday 12 October, contacts were made and activities for the future look promising.

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