SJRK Face to Face Meeting - Toronto, Oct 17, 2019

Agenda

Story Example

Story Template

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Project Retrospective

What went well

• Systemic changes at TiG around thinking about accessibility and doing audits of the work.
• Regular meetings helped in order to get feedback on how projects were going.
• Bringing together youth at the margins of society.
• Diverse inclusion.
• Capacity building.
• Openness and flexibility of the project.
• Ability to explore.
• Each of the partners brought parts of what they were working on and what they knew and enhanced it through the project.
• Diverse products were generated.
• Connecting with community and seeing the impact in people’s lives.
• Co-designing with young people - inclusion by design

What didn’t go well

• At the beginning it was difficult to understand - what we were doing and how
• Challenge in visualizing all the products that were generated and share them
• Couldn’t make people feel ownership of the tool (wikipedia). Only a few teachers were interested. Even with a dedicated person working with them
• Difficult to change habits
• We didn’t get the content translated 

What can we do differently

• Shared metrics or performance indicators. Setup and agreed to at the beginning of the project. How many people? How many events? How many stories did we collect?
• Find a way of having the youth take on the mentorship of the things that we helped to initiate.
• Clarity around budgets and plans from the beginning
• Instead of formal report, report in a way that can be put on the website to be generally shared
• Website design work could have started sooner
• Simplified website - more adaptability, more alternatives
• Figure out translation for the website early
• Meeting in different places would be nice
• Getting the youth from different places together to share their experiences
• Create more practical guides for people to enact inclusion - making ramps, accommodations etc.
• Create more collaborative resources together among the partners. Making sure one groups website is inclusive of other groups - language, context etc.
• Translation is paramount in this type of project and will allow for more cross pollination between partner groups.
• More brainstorming between groups instead of so much independent work.
• Use more social media
• Bringing young people into regular meetings and a co-design process.
• Budgeting translation and accessibility services from the beginning.