Celebrating Diversity Archives

Navigating the unexpected: The day we were told our new baby is deaf

7 May 2024

For Deaf Awareness Week, Liam Dixon, Partnership Manager for our Wellbeing & Recovery Services, shares his personal journey from discovering…

The importance of diversity in children’s books

17 October 2023

In keeping with this year’s Black History Month theme of ‘celebrating our sisters’, we wanted to shine a light on…

Growth, a poem – Black History Month 2023

4 October 2023

Banner with the #WeMatter for Black History Month 2023

Growth, a beautiful poem shared with us by one of our Second Step colleagues this Black History Month: I’ve become…

Black History Month 2023 – #WeMatter

29 September 2023

Every October we celebrate Black History Month. This year the theme is celebrating our sisters – applauding their invaluable contribution…

Burnout culture: why it’s time to rethink our approach to stress at work

18 April 2023

Our Digital Communications Officer, Alice, shares how a surprise adult ADHD diagnosis changed everything she knew about burnout, and suggests employers need a better approach to preventing workplace stress.

Neurodiversity at work

13 March 2023

As part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, former Second Step colleague Dulseigh Pomerance-Trifts, who now works community interest company Inclusive Change,…

The myth of the LGBTQ+ Community: The Curse of intersectionality

27 February 2023

To conclude LGBT+ History Month, Chay Harwood, a support workers with our High Support Accommodation Service, has written a blog on intersectionality. Chay looks at how the added layers of class and ethnicity affect people within the LGBTQ+ community, which isn’t always as accepting and inclusive as it makes out.

How bisexual erasure makes it tough to come out

20 February 2023

To celebrate LGBT+ History Month, Jemma Stovell, a recovery coach for Step Together, writes about bi erasure (bisexual erasure) – how she has witnessed it in her life and why it makes it difficult to come out.