DRAFT 01/11/08LGBTQ Youth Consultation 2009: Reforming the Movement

Dear Friends,

The Queer Youth Network would like to invite you to take part in a new and important pilot nationwide consultation project that aims to explore and comprehensively review the issues Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Asexual, Pansexual, Intersex, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Queer and Questioning young people as individuals, communities groups and organisations currently face. This initiative is being led and managed by young people themselves and has been developed into three distinct strands - which we've nicknamed DARCI, CLAIRE and ELLIOT!

We will be conducting the projects via a variety of methods including online surveys via our website and hopefully a number of events, focus groups and informal interviews in your all over the United Kingdom over the next six months. As it is vitally important we engage with as many groups and organisations as possible please feel free to forward this invitation on to your colleagues and networks as we accept we may not be able to make direct contact with everyone at this initial stage.

As this is a national project and it is currently being conducted entirely by volunteers and with limited financial resources we do not yet have a final time-scale for completion of the consultation however we are aiming to present our findings as part of our wider consultation early next year at the National Queer Youth Conference and also via a printed report, video resources and online publications that will be available to download and disseminated through a wide variety of networks and electronic forums.

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DRAFT 01/11/08Consultation Structure

Project DARCIProject DARCI will aim to engage with individual LGBTQ Young People.

Develop the skills of individual volunteers to

support their future potential Acknowledge and celebrate recent

achievements within the organsation Rejuvenate our existing volunteer structures

and opportunities Create and encourage proposals for our

advancement into new areas of work Implement proposals for new projects and

initiatives where capacity allows

Project CLAIREProject CLAIRE will aim to engage with all groups and organisations that work with LGBTQ Young People.

Celebrate the diversity and value of our ideological and geographical differences

Link similar past, current and future consultations together

Asses levels and types of service provision available to LGBTQ Youth

Identify and prioritise the specific needs LGBTQ Youth Groups have

Review existing and future opportunities for and partnership initiatives

Enhance our strengths by establishing a longer term supportive infrastructure

Project ELLIOT Operation Elliot will achieve the following objectives by combining the work of ProjectDARCI and the work of Project CLAIRE.

Engage and facilitate discussions on the evolution of the LGBTQ Youth movement Listen to the diverse needs LGBTQ Young People feel are important to them Learn from our history of tackling and overcoming multiple social challenges Improve upon our existing strengths and enhance our impact where needed Organise new work based on evolving youth sub-culture and changing terminology Transform even more LGBTQ Young People's lives by restructuring the network

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