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Vision and reality
- Author:
- VIGE Marcel
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 160, November 2009, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Independent mental health advocacy and the need for it to better address the needs of black and minority ethnic services users is discussed.
Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) improving equality of access
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 7 minutes 11 seconds
- Place of publication:
- London
This film focuses explores issues of equality and diversity and ways of improving the take-up of Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA). It highlights groups of people that are less likely to be offered the IMHA service, such as people from black and minority ethnic communities, people with learning disabilities or people with different forms of communication and suggests ways to improve access to IMHA services. Key learning points include: working in partnership with community organisations; monitor who is using your services; use creative and innovative way to communicate with individuals and groups; and ensure policies and practice take account of equality and diversity. (Original abstract)
Access to advocacy
- Author:
- LUDWID Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Diverse Minds Magazine, 10, October 2001, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Looks at the proposed changes for advocacy services and asks whether they will benefit black and ethnic minority mental health service users.
Mtetezi: developing health advocacy with African and Caribbean men: summary
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
There is a substantial body of evidence pointing to a negative relationship between mental health services and African and Caribbean men, who are under-represented as users of enabling services and over-represented in the population of patients who are admitted to, compulsorily detained in, and treated by mental health services. The consequences of this are poor engagement with mainstream services, restricted choices and high levels of dissatisfaction with mainstream care. The review identified the potential of advocacy to address these issues and to secure access to the most appropriate forms of support.
Implementing direct payments in mental health
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Direct payments increase the choice and control that people have over the support they receive. The take-up of direct payments by people experiencing mental health problems has been extremely low in most parts of the country. This project, New Directions, was undertaken by the Health and Social Care Advisory Service and draws on a range of discussions with over 250 service users and staff in order to identify what needs to happen for direct payments to be successfully implemented. Service users, carers and professionals require straightforward, accurate and accessible information about direct payments which is specific to mental health. Both service users and professionals can be confused about the distinction to access to an assessment for receipt of direct payments and access to services, where the threshold may be much higher and based largely on clinical considerations. This can affect take-up. Mental health users require specific advocacy and practical support to facilitate access to and use of direct payments. The absence of a streamlined process integrated with the Care Programme Approach adds to the sense of direct payments being a burden rather than an opportunity. Ways to increase take-up by people from black and minority ethnic communities include developing resources and approaches, including outreach and direct support services specific to those communities.
Social service users' own definitions of quality outcomes
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Shaping Our Lives project, working in partnership with Black User Group (London), Service User Action Group (Wakefield), Ethnic Disabled Group Emerged (Manchester) and an alliance of user groups in Waltham Forest (London), looked at the application in practice of on-going work about what service users meant by 'user-defined outcomes'. Both the research and the development projects covered a range of experiences - including those of older people, mental health users, minority ethnic communities and disabled people and involving 66 users in all.
Best practice in mental health: advocacy for African, Caribbean and South Asian communities
- Authors:
- RAI-ATKINS Asha, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This monograph explores the reasons or the lack of advocacy development within the Black voluntary sector and explains why advocacy is less accessible to black service users. It combines examples of best practice derived mainly from the Black mental health and advocacy projects.
Legal support for black patients
- Author:
- INYAMA Chinyere
- Journal article citation:
- Diverse Minds Magazine, 3, May 1999, pp.8-10.
- Publisher:
- MIND
This is the first of a two part review of legal support of patients under the Mental Health Act. This article discusses the solicitor's role in supporting patients detained under the current Mental Health Act 1983.
Is race on your agenda?: improving mental health services for people from black and minority groups
- Authors:
- CHRISTIE Yvonne, BLUNDEN Roger
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 24p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Part 1 is on gaps in services and includes advocacy, interpreting services, staff training, and planning and consultation. Part 2 offers guidelines for consultation with users, linked with specific grant proposals, stressing the importance of ensuring that local mental health services are responsive to the needs of people from black and minority groups.
Commissioning and providing mental health advocacy for African and Caribbean men
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, NEWBIGGING Karen, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Place of publication:
- London
The purpose of this resource guide is to provide pointers for commissioners and providers of advocacy services to ensure that African and Caribbean men have access to appropriate high-quality mental health advocacy. Appropriate advocacy services contribute to countering the effects of social exclusion and discrimination, which have been identified as significant issues for these men in their engagement with mental health services. The guide provides: key messages from the research evidence; policy principles to guide positive practice; translating these principles into practice; options for the organisation of advocacy; examples of advocacy services for African and Caribbean men; implications for mental health service users from other black and minority ethnic communities; and information about available resources. (Previously publised as SCIE Resource Guide no. 10).