Title: Black and Minority Ethnic Recovery Group: report from the project
Date: 19/03/2008
Summary:
In December 2006, Glasgow Association for Mental Health (GAMH) and Outside the Box Development Support (OTB) began working with women from the black and minority ethnic (BME) communities in Glasgow to explore what recovery meant for them.
During 2007 a second project built on the initial work and began the process of developing a recovery group which was led by the women. Like the fi rst project, it was a partnership with the National Resource
Centre for Ethnic Minority Health (NRCEMH) and Scottish Recovery Network (SRN). The project was funded by NRCEMH and all the partners gave additional time and practical help to the project.
This report describes what happened in the second project and what we learned from it. We hope that the experiences and ideas set out here will be helpful to people across Glasgow and in other parts of Scotland when they are providing services and developing other opportunities for people from BME communities and in supporting everyone’s mental health and wellbeing.
During 2007 a second project built on the initial work and began the process of developing a recovery group which was led by the women. Like the fi rst project, it was a partnership with the National Resource
Centre for Ethnic Minority Health (NRCEMH) and Scottish Recovery Network (SRN). The project was funded by NRCEMH and all the partners gave additional time and practical help to the project.
This report describes what happened in the second project and what we learned from it. We hope that the experiences and ideas set out here will be helpful to people across Glasgow and in other parts of Scotland when they are providing services and developing other opportunities for people from BME communities and in supporting everyone’s mental health and wellbeing.
Outside the Box