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Supporting race equality in mental healthcare
Resources > Useful contacts and websites
- African-Caribbean Mental Health Association
- Suites 34 and 37, 49 Effra Road, London SW2 1BZ
- email: acmha1@aol.com
- Tel: 020 7737 3603
- Bangladeshi Welfare Association
- Care Services Improvement Partnership
- Chinese Mental Health Association
- Commission for Racial Equality
- Confederation of Indian Organisations (UK)
- 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7XW
- Tel: 020 7928 9889
- Department of Health
- Diverse Minds (Mind’s Black and Minority Ethnic unit)
- E-quality for mental health (website)
- Family Welfare Association
- Irish Support and Advice Service
- Tel: 020 8741 0466
- KEW5 (Early Years Community CAMHS Team)
- Manchester Jewish Federation
- Mind (National Association for Mental Health) (See fact sheets on BME mental health)
- Plymouth Centre for Faiths and Cultural Diversity
- Rethink Sahayak project
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Vietnamese Mental Health Services
- Thomas Calton Centre, Alpha Street, Peckham
- London SE15 4NX tel: 020 7639 2288
- email: vietnamesemhs@aol.com
- Voices project (Norwich Mind)
- www.bbc.co.uk/religion.tools/calendar
Resources > Useful contacts and websites
- National Service Framework for Mental Health (Department of Health)
- 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 (Department of Health)
- Inside Outside: Improving mental health services for black and minority ethnic communities in England (Department of Health)
- Engaging and Changing: developing effective policies for the care and treatment of Black and minority ethnic detained patients (Department of Health) Count Me In: Mental health and ethnicity census (Health Commission)
- Breaking the circles of fear: A review of the relationship between mh services and African and Caribbean communities (Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health)
- Oppressed Voices: Understanding the effects of Domestic Violence for South Asian Women (Rethink Sahayak Community Engagement Project)
- The impact of spirituality on mental health, (Mental Health Foundation)