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Practical tools, guides and examples to support stigma-free practice and help drive change in your context
Can stigma help to eradicate poverty?
In this blog Dr China Mills, from JRF's Exploring Poverty and Stigma design team, explains how stigma is a force that entrenches poverty. But can it be used as a short-term strategy to change those who have power? As a tool in the abolition of poverty? I applied to join the JRF-hosted Exploring Poverty and Stigma design team because I know how fatal stigma can be. In my work leading the Deaths by Welfare project at Healing Justice Ldn, I see every day the violent ways that su
stigmafreefutures
Aug 135 min read
Can stigma help to eradicate poverty?
In this blog Dr China Mills, from JRF's Exploring Poverty and Stigma design team, explains how stigma is a force that entrenches poverty. But can it be used as a short-term strategy to change those who have power? As a tool in the abolition of poverty? I applied to join the JRF-hosted Exploring Poverty and Stigma design team because I know how fatal stigma can be. In my work leading the Deaths by Welfare project at Healing Justice Ldn, I see every day the violent ways that su
stigmafreefutures
Aug 13
Stigma and poverty — why and how we are investing in this work.
Flipping the usual dynamic of income first approaches Last month we kick-started our work on Stigma in Poverty. A design team of 10 people were brought together to do a deep dive into the drivers of stigma, to learn from current and historic initiatives to tackle it and to do the difficult work of prioritising themes to develop a concerted call for action. Why are we investing in this work? Quite simply, it is an issue that is repeatedly prioritised in work that puts the thin
Sarah Campbell
Aug 13
Stories: What has our work together made possible?
Steve: “When I joined the SFF team, I brought my lived experience of poverty and a desire to change stigma around that. This work has made me look at my past and deal with a lot of things I blamed myself for that was not my fault, it made me apply a stigma free lens to everything I do. Our work has made me look at everything so differently, its made me realise that you have to challenge stigma to be able to conquer it. You can say, ‘wait, stop, think about what you’re saying’
stigmafreefutures
Aug 11
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