Waits project for Every Voice Counts. Its aims were: To ensure women get their voices heard To help women take a positive step forward To be responsive to women’s needs To provide opportunities for all women

1. WAITS EVCP BME & Empowerment
Programme

2. Women Acting In Today's Society
W.A.I.T.S
MARCIA LEWINSON CEO
&
LYNETTE WEBB “Lynetts Get2gether”

3. Introduction
•Background to WAITS
•Aims of the EVCP
BAME Empowerment Programme
•Delivery & Outcomes
•Case study
•Conclusion

4. WAITS Vision, Mission and Aims
Vision
‘Creating a future where all women are empowered to make positive change’
Mission Statement
‘Enabling women from diverse areas within the West Midlands to develop
themselves and others’
Aims
1.To ensure women get their voices heard
2.To help women take a positive step forward
3.To be responsive to women’s needs
4.To provide opportunities for all women

5. WAITS Services
WAITS currently runs the following
activities:
1.Empowering Women
2.Women’s Support and Development
3. WAITS Community Services
Domestic Abuse Training
Consultations Packages
Counselling

6. AIMS Of EVCP BAME EMPOWERMENT
PROGRAMME
OVER ALL AIM: The central aim is provide BME communities
with the skills and confidence to make active change within
their communities
•Develop the leadership skills of participants
•Identifying potential ‘BME empowerment champions
•Enable the empowerment champions to engage with local
statutory partners and decision-makers
•Improve the skills and knowledge of participants, such as
confidence, leadership, analysis of power, citizenship,
presentation and decision-making processes
•Demonstrating the good practice of this model by providing 2
case studies from the participants

7. EVCP BAME Empowerment Programme
Delivery & Outcomes
Six learning sessions
•Leadership 1 & 2
•Power, Influence and Action
•Meeting with Descion Makers
Outcomes
•Participants feel better able to develop
relationships with descion makers
•Participants have greater knowledge
and experience of meeting with
decision makers
•Participants have access to local descion
making structure

8. Case Study
Lynette Web
LYNETTES GET2THER

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