An interactive online networking and learning session for –

• Community & Voluntary Third Sector organisations or groups in Chesterfield and immediate surrounding areas. You could be a member of staff, a manager, volunteer, supporter, trustee or member.

• Staff and Students of the University of Derby who have an interest in Chesterfield. Do you live, work, study in or care about Chesterfield?

• Individuals working within Health or Social Care in Chesterfield. Do you work or volunteer in any capacity for the NHS, Local Authority or a private health or social care provider, providing a service to people living in Chesterfield?

These sessions aim to CONNECT the community, health & social care, and the university to discuss, learn from and REFLECT on the common experiences we have.

There will be a presentation from Tom Harrison the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Facilitator from Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Intersectionality is a framework for understanding how social identities—such as race, ethnicity, social class, religion, sexual orientation, ability, and gender identity—overlap with one another. All these different identities that can interplay and are subject to systems of power that privilege certain people over others.

Why should we care about intersectionality? Since everyone faces challenges in their life based on their identity, doesn’t that mean we’re all intersectional in our own ways?

You can have multiple identities, but the difference is how those identities are affected by deep-rooted institutional bias.

Understanding intersectionality - how social identities overlap with each other to advantage or disadvantage people within in Health and Social Care services - is a critical component of any diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative.

Who has power? Who gets the benefit of the doubt? Who doesn’t? Who is automatically included in groups? Who isn’t? What do you do to control how others perceive you? What parts of your identity help you fit in? What parts of your identity make you stand out? The answers to all these questions are rooted in intersectionality.

People’s interlocking identities illustrate the diversity that exists within any broad social group and where there are similarities and differences in experiences within these groups.

Do you have an experience to share?

Would you like to hear & learn from others?

Would you like to make links within the wider H&SC Community in Chesterfield?

The Zoom link and password will be sent out before the event – when you receive this link please do not share it with anyone else. Places are not transferable and the name/email used to book must be for the person attending. Each person attending must be booked separately via Eventbrite. If you can no longer attend please cancel your place to allow others to book.

Have a look at our other sessions listed separately on Eventbrite here. Funded for you by ‘Community Chesterfield’, putting the UNI in COMMuniTY!

Please let us know if you have any suggestions for Connect & Reflect topics or if you need any further information by contacting community@dva.org.uk.

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Further sessions are scheduled to take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month with topics TBA .