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Race, mental health and criminal justice: moving forward
- Authors:
- NACRO, CLINKS, ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS, RACE EQUALITY UNIT
- Publisher:
- Clinks
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 9
- Place of publication:
- London
This joint briefing from Nacro, Clinks, Association for Mental Health Providers, and the Race Equality Foundation explores the challenges in providing effective mental health support for people from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities that have contact with the criminal justice system. It looks at how services can be more effectively integrated to provide appropriate support and how to address disproportional access to mental health services and how to ensure that mental needs of BAME people are effectively met. The briefing and its recommendations are based on analysis of existing research, and workshops with people with lived experience from BAME communities and voluntary sector practitioners. The recommendations focus on addressing disproportionate access to health services in the justice system in the areas of: providing appropriate services; using data; involving people with lived experience; workforce and training; and integrated working. (Edited publisher abstract)