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Guest blog by Jennifer Scott (Spiritfinder.org) For young people in Scotland, and the youth workers supporting them, life transitions like moving to a new area, starting college, losing a job, or joining a new community can feel chaotic and isolating. Cultural integration challenges can add pressure to “fit in” fast, while mental health stigma makes it harder to ask for mental health support when things start slipping. The same disruption that knocks routines off track can al

When I think about the Scotland I want to see, it is one where every young person feels safe, valued, and able to thrive. But the reality is that young women and girls of colour often face unique barriers: racism, sexism, and cultural expectations that can make those opportunities harder to access. At Intercultural Youth Scotland (IYS), we are working every day to change that. IYS was founded to put Black and People of Colour (BPoC) young people at the centre of conversations

Youth work is about understanding young people in the fullness of who they are. Intersectionality helps us do that by recognising how different parts of identity shape experience, opportunity, and exclusion. In a nutshell intersectionality is a way of understanding the different parts of our identity and where they crossover. This has an impact on how we experience different situations and means that one individual’s experience of something can contradict the experience of so

The Growing Impact of Racist Rhetoric in Scotland: How Increasing Hate, Bias, and Microaggressions Are Shaping the Lives, Education, and Wellbeing of Young Black People and Young People of Colour.