Ecosystem Coldharbour: a network of interconnecting and interacting drivers of change.
The newly formed Ecosystem Coldharbour Consortium brings together well-respected community organisations with experience of leading violence reduction initiatives in the area. Ecosystem Coldharbour aim to address the root causes of violence affecting young people and provide positive opportunities for their development.
The area of focus is the Coldharbour Ward Lambeth, and while the spread of this work will be fluid and inclusive, it will be focused on the ward’s largest estates of Angell Town, Loughborough and Moorlands as well as central Brixton.
Coldharbour is one of Lambeth’s most violent wards, it has one of the highest rates of serious youth violence in London and features highly across other violent offences and knife enabled crime together with unemployment and poor mental and physical health.
Youth violence in Coldharbour is driven by several factors such as marginalisation, deprivation and poverty, victimisation and gang culture. With the help of ‘My Ends’ funding, Ecosystem Coldharbour will work to reduce violence by:
Ecosystem Coldharbour want to widen the scope of what it means to work with young people at risk or involved in youth violence, tackling the ‘Pair of ACE’s’; Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Community Environments.
The newly formed Ecosystem Coldharbour Consortium brings together well-respected community organisations with experience of leading violence reduction initiatives in the area. Ecosystem Coldharbour aim to address the root causes of violence affecting young people and provide positive opportunities for their development.
The area of focus is the Coldharbour Ward Lambeth, and while the spread of this work will be fluid and inclusive, it will be focused on the ward’s largest estates of Angell Town, Loughborough and Moorlands as well as central Brixton.
Coldharbour is one of Lambeth’s most violent wards, it has one of the highest rates of serious youth violence in London and features highly across other violent offences and knife enabled crime together with unemployment and poor mental and physical health.
Youth violence in Coldharbour is driven by several factors such as marginalisation, deprivation and poverty, victimisation and gang culture. With the help of ‘My Ends’ funding, Ecosystem Coldharbour will work to reduce violence by:
- Supporting a local network of grieving mothers and families impacted by youth violence.
- Developing a network of grass roots community organisations in Coldharbour, supporting them with training, grants and organisational mentoring.
- Recruiting and training passionate local people to outreach and support their peers
- Providing one-to-one therapeutic sessions around wellbeing and mental health for young people
- Using youth work and meaningful opportunities as diversionary activities that give young people positive paths away from violence.
- Creating an innovative ‘young connector’ development model. This collective of local young people will train, learn and work together, becoming the next generation of trauma-informed change makers with the skills, lived experience and relationships to have an impact on reducing the frequency of youth violence and its trauma on the wider community.
Ecosystem Coldharbour want to widen the scope of what it means to work with young people at risk or involved in youth violence, tackling the ‘Pair of ACE’s’; Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Community Environments.
