Let’s Create Meaningful Change Together
SBAA believes that meaningful and sustainable change is built through collaboration.
We partner with organisations and individuals who share our commitment to ethical, evidence-based, accessible, and culturally responsive practice. Together, we can create opportunities, strengthen community connections, support relevant research, and improve how behavioural and developmental support is understood and accessed within Somali communities.
We welcome local, national, and international partnerships that align with SBAA’s mission and values.
Why Partner with SBAA?
Partnering with SBAA provides an opportunity to:
- Build meaningful connections with Somali communities
- Strengthen the cultural responsiveness of services and initiatives
- Support education, professional development, and community awareness
- Increase representation within behaviour analysis and related fields
- Contribute to ethical and culturally informed research
- Co-produce accessible and culturally relevant resources
- Reach professionals, students, families, and community members
- Create positive and sustainable community impact
SBAA brings together professional expertise, cultural knowledge, community insight, and lived experience. We value partnerships that recognise and respect all four.
Who We Work With
We welcome enquiries from:
- Behavioural and developmental service providers
- Schools, colleges, universities, and training providers
- Health, social-care, and SEND services
- Somali-led and community-based organisations
- Charities and voluntary-sector organisations
- Researchers and academic institutions
- Professional associations and networks
- Local authorities and public-sector organisations
- Businesses and socially responsible organisations
- Funders, donors, and sponsors
- Advocacy groups and lived-experience networks
Ways to Partner With SBAA
Education and Training Partner
Support the planning and delivery of conferences, workshops, webinars, community events, and networking opportunities.
Community Partner
Help develop learning opportunities, resources, study groups, presentations, and professional-development activities.
Academic and Research Partner
Support relationships with families, community groups, students, professionals, and Somali-led organisations.
Professional Development Partner
Contribute to ethical research, community consultation, resource reviews, surveys, publications, and the sharing of culturally relevant knowledge.
Strategic Partner
Support SBAA’s website, newsletters, social media, campaigns, graphic content, and public communications.
Sponsor or Funding Partner
Help SBAA build relationships with organisations, identify funding opportunities, engage sponsors, and develop sustainable initiatives.
Our Partnership Principles
Flexible Ways to Contribute
We seek partnerships that are:
Community-Centred
The voices, experiences, rights, and priorities of Somali individuals and families should meaningfully inform work intended to benefit them.
Ethical
All collaborative work must protect dignity, autonomy, confidentiality, and wellbeing.
Evidence-Based
Projects should be informed by credible evidence while remaining responsive to individual and community contexts.
Culturally Responsive
Culture, language, faith, family structures, identity, and lived experience should be considered throughout the work—not added as an afterthought.
Collaborative
We value shared decision-making, open communication, mutual learning, and clearly defined responsibilities.
Transparent
Partners should be clear about their aims, expectations, funding, intended outcomes, and how information will be used.
Sustainable
Where possible, partnerships should build knowledge, capacity, relationships, and benefits that extend beyond a single event or activity.
Our Partnership Process
Submit an enquiry
Tell us about your organisation, your proposed partnership, and the outcomes you hope to achieve.
Initial conversation
A member of the SBAA team will contact you to explore alignment, expectations, and possibilities.
Agree the partnership
Where there is a suitable fit, we will agree on the aims, responsibilities, timescales, safeguarding considerations, and intended outcomes.
Deliver and review
We will work collaboratively and reflect on what was achieved, what was learned, and how the partnership could develop.
Partner With SBAA
If your organisation shares our values and would like to explore working with us, we would be pleased to start a conversation.
Please complete our partnership enquiry form and include:
- Your name and contact details
- Your organisation and role
- The type of partnership you are proposing
- Who the partnership is intended to benefit
- What you would like to achieve
- Your proposed timescale
- Any funding, sponsorship, or resources involved
