Step 1: Get Curious
Assess your organisation’s status, identify priorities, and tailor your path to building meaningful disability inclusion.
All about the Inclusion Journey
The YO-IN Journey Towards Inclusion is a step-by-step, visual roadmap that synthesises the process and actions to be taken, guiding youth organisations through initial assessment to full implementation of disability inclusion.
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Download the accessible visual version of the journey (Accessible PDF coming soon)
Download the full description of the journey and steps (Word document)
Introduction
The YO-IN Journey Towards Inclusion is a practical roadmap designed to help youth organisations strengthen disability inclusion efforts step by step. It is both a flexible improvement tool and a structured pathway towards YO-IN Quality Label Certification.
Organisations can begin with Step 1 and progress through the Journey according to their maturity level, identified through the YO-INclusiometer. Alternatively, they can start with any step that reflects their current priorities, needs, or areas for improvement.
Each step contains practical actions that organisations can adapt to their own context and capacity. Actions are numbered according to the YO-INclusiometer categories and indicators, allowing organisations to easily identify the actions relevant to their assessment results.
Actions shown in bold are required actions linked to the YO-IN Quality Label Certification levels and must be completed to achieve the corresponding level of certification.
Instructions
- Complete the YO-INclusiometer self-assessment to understand your organisation’s current maturity level and identify priority areas for action.
- Based on your results, decide what you want to achieve, whether that means improving in a specific area or working towards a particular level of YO-IN Quality Label Certification.
- You do not need to tackle everything at once: choose a manageable starting point based on your priorities, needs and resources.
- From there, move step by step along your inclusion journey, using the YO-IN resources, tools and guidance linked to each area to help you progressively strengthen your organisation’s approach.
Step 2: Commit
Establish a clear commitment to disability inclusion, assign responsibility, set expectations, and build the foundation for an inclusive organisation.
Step 3: Partner
Foster relationships that offer support, guidance and expertise, contributing to and co-creating a more inclusive organisation.
Step 4: Enable
Remove barriers, including through reasonable accommodation, to ensure that young persons with disabilities can fully participate on an equal basis with others.
Step 5: Empower
Strengthen the capacity of young persons with disabilities and those who support them to participate, engage and create more inclusive opportunities.
Step 6: Embed
Turn commitment into lasting organisational practice by embedding inclusion across all areas of your organisation.
Step 7: Reflect and Renew
Learn from feedback and experience, review progress and objectives, and use these insights to shape priorities and strengthen future action.
Step 8: Champion Inclusion
Advance inclusion across the youth sector by sharing good practice, supporting your peers, and gaining certification that demonstrates your commitment.