Overview
Good intentions are often where inclusion work begins. Too often, they are also where it ends.
This online conversation invites participants to slow down and examine what happens after intention. After statements of care. After funding cycles. After inclusion becomes a word that is repeated so often it starts to lose meaning.
Hosted by CCGBA+, this session centres a reflective dialogue on how institutions, nonprofits, and public systems engage with Black youth, and where those efforts fall short even when the desire to do good is present.
The conversation will be guided by lived experience, policy realities, and an intersectional lens that resists one-size-fits-all approaches. Rather than offering templates or quick fixes, the session creates space to examine assumptions, power, and accountability in how inclusion is designed and practiced.
Why This Conversation Matters
Many programs intended to support Black youth are built with care and still miss the mark.
Exclusion does not always look like overt harm. It often shows up quietly, through assumptions, silence, or environments that signal a space was not designed with certain people in mind.
This conversation asks organizations to look honestly at where complexity gets flattened, where lived experience is invited but not trusted, and where cultural elements are included without sufficient care. It challenges participants to move beyond intention toward responsibility, relationship, and sustained practice.
About CCGBA+
CCGBA+ works at the intersection of gender, race, and lived experience to improve how systems are designed. Through education, research, and public conversations, we support organizations to move beyond good intentions toward approaches that are grounded in accountability and the realities of the communities they serve.
