Delivering Race Equality (DRE) in Mental Health     

Northumberland Tyne and Wear Focused Implementation Site

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In December 2005 the Department of Health published an action plan "Delivering race equality in mental health care:  An action plan for reform inside and outside services and the Government's response to the Independent inquiry into the death of David Bennett" (DRE action plan DH 2005) (DRE Summary).

The Department of Health established 17 pilot sites across the country whose aim is to help implement the DRE action plan, develop best practice and share this learning with the rest of the country. (Presentation on DRE and FIS ).

The Project Manager, Suzanne Thompson, is employed by GVOC.  We are the only FIS where the Project Manager is hosted in a voluntary organisation.

The DRE programme is based on three "building blocks"

1.  Community Engagement - supported by 500 new Community Development Workers for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in Mental Health.  Northumberland, Tyne and Wear has been allocated 17 workers.

For more information on the role of Community Development Workers for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in Mental Health see links below:

•Contact Details for Community Development Workers across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear

•Summary of the Role

•Community Development Worker Handbook

•Community Development Worker Education and Training

•Community Development Worker Guidance

Examples of their work:

•Community Arts - Tyneside Women's Health

•DRE Art and Wellbeing - South Tyneside

•aTENSION Project website

•DRE in Sunderland

2.  More appropriate and responsive services - develop organisations and the workforce, to improve clinical services and to improve services for specific groups, such as older people, asylum seekers and refugees, and children

DRE Awareness Poster

Chinese Mental Health Conference 2007

How to run a bilingual conference

Research - summary and findings

Conference Report - Summary

I am a Migrant Worker

Report on Asylum Seeker, Refugee and Mental Health in Newcastle 2007

3.  Better information - from improved monitoring of ethnicity, better dissemination of information and good practice, and improved knowledge about effective services.  This will include a new regular census of mental health patients "Count Me In Census".

Northumberland "Ethnic Profile" (1.2mb)

Sunderland Profile

For further information

If you would like to know more about the programme in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (including the action plan) contact Suzanne Thompson on (0191) 478 4103.

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