This four part webinar series brings together sector specialists, youth workers, academics, and lived experience voices to explore what truly inclusive and transformative youth work looks like for disabled and neurodivergent young people and youth workers.
Facilitated by Abbee McLatchie and developed with expert guidance from Zara Todd—trainer, researcher, and disability activist—and supported by BSL interpretation across all sessions, the series offers practical knowledge, reflective dialogue, and actionable strategies for the youth sector.
Across the collection, viewers will deepen their understanding of disability rights, inclusive practice, neuro affirming approaches, and the vital role of disabled people within the youth work workforce. Each session centres the social model of disability and challenges ableist assumptions, offering real world examples and tools that support more equitable, empowering youth spaces.
The series includes:
#1 Assume We Can: Advocating for the rights, choices, and autonomy of young disabled people through a social model lens.
#2 Beyond Inclusion: A panel discussion exploring transformative youth work shaped with and by disabled young people, inspired by Crip Theory and intersectionality.
#3 Agency, Identity and Belonging – Neuro Affirming Youth Work: Insights into supporting neurodivergent young people through affirming, accessible, trauma informed practice.
#4 The Impact and Value of Disabled People in Youth Work: A powerful exploration of representation, workforce inclusion, and the experiences of disabled youth workers.
Ideal for youth workers, leaders, educators, and policy makers, this series invites the sector to move beyond basic inclusion—towards youth work that is radically accessible, rights based, and centred on young people’s agency and belonging.
