Youth Friendly spoke with four young people from AWYF about what Black History Month means to them, the importance of implementing racial justice in Canadian systems, and how your organization can be more welcoming to Black and immigrant youth.

Becoming trauma-informed means making a commitment to changing the practices, policies, and culture of an institution in order to make everyone feel safe. It means members are involved in working toward this change and understanding the impact of trauma and the specific needs of trauma survivors.

With anti-Muslim hate crimes persisting, it's imperative that organizations and institutions work to make Muslim youth feel safe and welcome in their spaces. Dismantling anti-Muslim hate must start from our systems and structures of power. That means looking inward and taking accountability for how it may be present within your own organizatoin.