Reports and Publications
Since 2003 Mind in Harrow has conducted several needs assessments with local BME and faith communities into their different cultural perspectives on mental health and their recommendations for improvement and changes to services. We have collated all the reports of these needs assessments below which have been commissioned, conducted and developed in collaboration with NHS Harrow PCT, Kings Fund and UCLAN
Name: Somali Advocacy Research Project
Date: November 2010
Author(s): Dr Natalie Tobert, Josie Hinton
Description: The project evaluated the ‘cultural brokerage’ approach to advocacy with Somali mental health service users, carers and professionals in the borough of Harrow. It explored whether advocacy resulted in improved Somali access to mental health services and improved professional interaction with Somali people. The research explored whether the family model of advocacy was perceived to be beneficial both by the Somali community and by mental health professionals. The report makes recommendations for future policy and practice.
Funded by: King’s Fund
Name: Bridging Cultures, Dissolving Barriers (‘People Like Us’ Campaign - Mental Health Promotion with BME Communities)
Date: 2009/2010
Author(s): Dr Natalie Tobert
Description: A report evaluating the BME mental health promotion workshops programme during 2009-10 and recording the experiences of workshop participants, a continuation of the ‘People Like Us’ Campaign.
Funded by: NHS Harrow PCT
Bridging Cultures Executive Summary
Name: People Like Us Campaign 2008-09
Date: April 2009
Author(s): Forster for Change
Description: Evaluation of social marketing intervention, which was designed to increase awareness of mental health and services among BME communities in Harrow
Funded by: NHS Harrow PCT
People Like Us Campaign Evaluation
Name: People Like Us Campaign 2008-09
Date: 17th November 2008
Author(s): Forster for Change
Description: Plan for a social marketing intervention to increase awareness of mental health and services among BME communities in Harrow
Funded by: NHS Harrow PCT
Forster People Like Us Campaign Report
Name: People Like Us Signposting Booklet
Date: December 2008
Author(s): Dr Natalie Tobert and Mark Gillham
Description: To signpost culturally appropriate treatment for BME populations in Harrow, both from the statutory and voluntary sectors.
To offer a brief summary of the history of migration of various populations residing in Harrow.
To offer inspiration through a selection of religious texts, that may help any person’s mental wellbeing.
Funded by: NHS Harrow
People Like Us Signposting Booklet
Name: Mental Health Needs Assessment with Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
Date: 1st September 2008
Author(s): Dr Natalie Tobert
Description: The report assesses the mental health needs of BME groups living in Harrow and explores strategies to improve mental health and reduce the health inequalities within these communities.
Funded by: NHS Harrow PCT
BME Mental Health Needs Assessment Report
Name: Community Led Research Project focussing on Gujarati-speaking Asian Elders’ Experiences/Views and Attitudes of Mental Health and Mental Health Services in Harrow
Date: May 2008
Author(s): Arvind Joshi, Damyanti Parmar and Janet Smith
Description: This report explores Gujarati-speaking Asian elders’ understanding and perceptions of mental health and the services available in the Borough of Harrow.
The project followed the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) Model of Community Engagement. This meant that the research was conducted by members of the Gujarati speaking community, who were trained and supported in their work by UCLan. The project was one of 80 similar projects conducted across England during 2005-2008, exploring issues relating to the government’s Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care Strategy.
Asian Elders Community Led Research Project Report
Name: Mapping health access for Afghan, Iranian and Somali refugees and asylum seekers in Harrow
Date: October and November of 2003
Author(s): Daniel Wasp, Alison Noel, Ibrahim Farah and Dr Dad Mohammed Habib
Description: To highlight gaps in service provision & barriers faced by refugees and asylum seekers in accessing healthcare and to identify the routes refugees and asylum seekers take into health care and also identify where best to target resources and make a series of recommendations to service providers
Report on mapping health access for Afghan, Iranian and Somali refugees and asylum seekers in Harrow
Acknowledgments
In each of the reports there are many acknowledgements and expressions of thanks for the generous support given by organisations, service users and carers without whose commitment and participation the learning from these valuable reports would not possible.