community development workers report 2009-10

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

NHSPositive about mental health and learning disability

Delivering Race Equality in Mental HealthcareNottinghamshire CommunityDevelopment WorkersAnnual Review 2009-2010

Joginder Singh Premaddresses a 200 strongcrowd at the CDW ServiceLaunch in April 2009.

The programme had three ‘building blocks’:

• More appropriate and responsive services –achieved through developing organisationsand the workforce; to improve clinical servicesand to improve services for specific groups,such as older people, asylum seekers andrefugees, and children

• Community engagement – delivered throughhealthier communities and by engagingcommunities in planning services, supportedby 500 new Community DevelopmentWorkers

• Better information – from improvedmonitoring of ethnicity; better disseminationof information and good practice; andimproved knowledge about effective services,including a new regular census of mentalhealth patients.

By using these building blocks NottinghamshireHealthcare aims to improve mental healthservices for Nottinghamshire’s Black MinorityEthnic (BME), refugee and asylum seekingcommunities.

The role of the Community DevelopmentWorkers (CDWs) has been to assist in achievingthe above building blocks, focusing on betterengagement of services with their localcommunities.

Their remit has been very broad but has beendefined using the following main functions:

• Change Agent

- Identifying community concerns and gaps inservices

- Seeking out capabilities of communities todevelop innovative practice

- Increase channels of communication betweencommunity and statutory services.

• Service Developer

- Promoting and developing joint workingbetween community and statutory services

- Advising on staff education and training

- Highlighting the importance of culture inservice systems and practice.

• Capacity Builder

- Help develop socially inclusive BMEcommunities

- Assist in the development of communityorganisations

- Engage in the establishment of communityleadership.

• Access facilitator

- Direct people to community resources

- Address barriers, such as language andculture, to services

- Help people find effective pathways toservices.

This review will describe our progress in each ofthe above areas, and the methodologies used.

Delivering Race Equality (DRE) in Mental Healthcare was a five-year programmelaunched in January 2005 by the Department of Health. It was developed toaddress inequalities in patient admission, detention and experience of mentalhealth services for ethnic minorities.

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Just wanted to say a very big thankfor yesterday. Speakers were stillreferring to and identifying withyour talk during the rest of the day;also many people came up to meand said “he told it like it was andthat’s what we need to hear”.

Krishna Bhatti, Community Development Worker, to Joginder Singh Prem

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backgroundBelow: Aisha Khan sharesher experiences at theService Launch.

The Nottinghamshire CDWs wereinitially assigned to cover thefollowing areas:

• Geographically- Bassetlaw- Newark and Sherwood - Mansfield- Ashfield- Hucknall and Broxtowe- City and Rushcliffe

• One CDW allocated to the Low Secure andCommunity Forensic Directorate.

Overall there were 11 CDWs; nine CDWshosted by the Trust and two CDWs hosted byNHS Nottingham City.

Initially CDWs focused their efforts on scopingthe geographical areas, identifying the make upof the communities and what services may ormay not exist in the area. This helped shapetheir future priorities. The Low Secure andCommunity Forensic CDW, Sharon Espritdeveloped relationships, and identified areas ofdevelopment in that directorate.

The team had been effectively supported byEric Adjaidoo (African Caribbean ClinicalLead) and Julie Gardner – Associate Directorfor Health and Social Care.

The arrival of Aneela Asim, Service Managerat the beginning of 2009 marked somesignificant changes in the way the teamworked. In April 2009 we consulted on adelivery plan and new way of working. Thiswas agreed with the team and key stakeholdersto be taken forward.

The CDWs were keen to implement theirobjectives which included the following:

• Nine CDWs were divided across the Trustand other service providers in place ofgeographical set up

• The CDWs were assigned to specificdirectorates and priorities across the Trustand other service providers such as theNHS Nottinghamshire County

• CDWs were to take a lead on key action ortask areas to ensure that there was a robustway of measuring improvement and

performance

• CDWs took on a joint approach inengaging with the diverse range ofcommunities in Nottinghamshire.

After almost two years in existencewe’re pleased to have theopportunity to present some of thekey challenges, success stories and

areas of development that theCDWs have been involved in.

Service Launch

The CDWs began2009/10 by officiallylaunching theirservice to a rangeof audiences fromthe voluntarysector, faithcommunity andhealthcare sectoras well as manyindividuals who

had an interest inlearning more aboutachieving raceequality in mentalhealth services.

The BME service userregional researchproject... a valuablecontribution byNottinghamshire’s NHSservice users fromDynamite, Uhuru, anddestiny groups to shareexperiences and hascontributed to service users development andempowering the serviceusers in a shared senseof ownership.Otis Hinds, Support Worker, Sheffield African

Caribbean Mental Health Association

The launch was held on the 20 April 2009 atTrent Vineyard in Nottingham and attracted200 delegates. The key note speakers for theday included:

• Local commissioners

• Service users and carers

• Melba Wilson, National Equalities (DRE)Director

• Rosie Hepple, Mental Health DevelopmentManager, NHS Nottingham City).

Some of the Trusts own professionals alsocame along to share their insights including

• Professor Mike Cooke, Chief Executive

• Professor Rachel Munton, ExecutiveDirector of Nursing and Allied HealthProfessionals. Rachel, who was theExecutive responsible for equality anddiversity is currently seconded as DeputyDirector of the East Midlands LeadershipAcademy.

• Catherine Conchar – Head of Equality and Diversity

• Aneela Asim – Service Manager

The day was a huge success filled with motivatingspeeches and live entertainment. It wasreassuring to see some of our commissioners andkey stakeholders confirm that we were on theright track.

Charlotte Wilcockson – Commissioning GroupRepresentative – NHS Nottingham City openedthe event by stating that, “We should celebratethat we have Community DevelopmentWorkers and we should celebrate theirachievements and successes. Nottingham has acommitment to race equality and this can beachieved nationally, regionally and locally withthe aid of CDWs”.

Melba Wilson mentioned how much she likedcoming to Nottingham “because Nottinghamwalks the walk and talks the talk and has plentyto be proud of”.

Professor Mike Cooke said, “I want communitiesto engage with CDWs. Leadership is about youand how you behave, about being effective andabout how you approach problems”.

A full report of the launch is available on request.

Highlights of the ServiceLaunch with keynotespeeches from ProfessorMike Cooke, Chief Executive(top right) and ProfessorRachel Munton, ExecutiveDirector (centre).


Building partnerships

The CDWs have all supported a number of BMEorganisations in understanding the basic issues ofmental illness. This in turn has resulted in creatingstronger links between these organisations andstatutory service providers, as well as other largervoluntary sector organisations such as theAlzheimer’s Society.

The are many services that have a key role insupporting service users and carers, in terms ofadvocacy, carers breaks, social support as wellrecreational activities. Historically the reach ofthese services in to the BME communities as wellas to existing service users and carers has beenquite poor. However the positive outcome of thework of the CDWs has led to these serviceproviders recognising this and they are nowchannelling their energy in to working alongsideCDWs to build links in to the communities.

This partnership work has been very valuable, asthe communities have started to realise wherethey can go for support and have started to buildtrust in the services. Although this progress is atvery early stages, continued development workwill help strengthen these relationships.

Nottinghamshire CountyCouncil Adult Social Careand Health has allocated£7,000 to the CDWs toengage further with BMEcommunities as well asdevelop the newEuropean communities inthe county and raiseawareness of the CarersBreak Service. The CDWshave used some of this tohost partnership eventswith communityorganisations. Feedbackfrom some of the eventsidentified that

modifications need to be made to ensure that theCarers Breaks Service is more accessible andculturally appropriate to the needs of diversecommunities. Further development will berequired around this area next year.

CDWs have worked in partnership with otherstatutory bodies to deliver a Promoting PositivePartnerships Event, which was very successful.Partners included the Nottinghamshire CountyCouncil, NHS Nottinghamshire County, ColonelFrank Seely School and the Trust. The main aim ofthis event was to raise the profile of services to

change agent each partner, as well as the BME community. ThisPartnership also wanted to ensure that there wasa more appropriate referral mechanism intoservices as well as knowledge of what serviceswere available through different agencies.

BME Service User and Carer Group

One of the key targets set for the CDWs was todevelop a BME Service User and Carer Group thatcould have a voice in the delivery andimprovement of mental health service provision.A group was initiated and the first meeting washeld in May 2009 as a cross representative forumwith attendance from Indian, Pakistani, Africanand Caribbean communities. This meeting waslead by the Service Manager, Aneela Asim andparticipants were able to fully engage as shecommunicated in the two languages required;English and Punjabi. This meeting went wellhowever further thought was needed aroundfuture meetings so we could include other BMEcommunities and support their language needs.

The group met for a second time in Novemberand was supported by CDWs, howeverattendance was low. Of the attendees there weremany new members which was a positive sign.There were some external speakers and thisappeared to have a detrimental affect on theparticipation of the group, especially new andless confident members. This indicated that weneeded to build the group and their confidencebefore bringing speakers in.

A number of BME service users and carers havesubsequently engaged in groups facilitated by theTrust as well as other service providers. Some ofthe group members have also participated in theRace Equality Cultural Capability (RECC) trainingand have now become facilitators.

It is hoped that the CDWs will continuesupporting this group over the next year. The aimof the group is to influence service improvementacross the City and County. The CDWs will besupporting the individuals to join interviewpanels, Trust inductions and local policydevelopment. The group will not be static andthe CDWs will be recruiting and supporting morepeople through the year.

We will consider, however, how CDWs can haveaccess to interpreters to ensure we are providingan inclusive service when engaging with serviceusers and carers. There have also been clearguidelines developed, considering the health andsafety of the CDWs and service users and carers ifthere were any situations that required clinicalsupport and intervention.

There have been a number of service users andcarers who want to be more actively involved insupporting people in care as well as inrecruitment and selection. The main barrier to



Race Equality Cultural Capability (RECC) training

Most CDWs have now completed the RECCtraining, commissioned by Care ServicesImprovement Partnership (CSIP). Staffmembers have worked in partnership withaccredited service users and carers to deliversessions to a range of Trust professionalsincluding; Occupational Therapists, SocialWorkers, Key Workers, Community MentalHealth Teams, Assertive Outreach Teams andManagers. Managers and Team Leaders arebooking further modules which can be tailoredto their needs.

The Trust separately commissioned trainingfor their staff. The CDWs successfullycontributed to the programme by enablingservices users and carers to be partnered witha staff member. A total of 23 people

completed the training of which at least ninewere service users and carers.

The RECC training has been incorporated in tothe Trust Learning and Development Prospectusand has been given the following Knowledge andSkills Framework (KSF) mapping.

• Equality and Diversity – Level 3• Personal and People Development – Level 2• Communication – level 2

A long term strategy needs to be developed asto how the training will be co-ordinatedconsistently across the Trust. The current planis to deliver modules each month that any onecan book on to, and to deliver bespoke trainingto those teams that require this.

Health and Social Care Module

Javid Khalique, CDW for Mental HealthServices for Older People (MHSOP) hasworked with Keith Sykes and Joyce Francisfrom the BECONN Project to develop a modulefor the Health and Social Care Certificate. Thedelivery of the module was very well receivedby those who have studied it.

Stress management

These training sessions were delivered inpartnership with Domestic ViolenceCoordinators from the Gedling and Broxtoweteams of the Nottinghamshire County Councilto a group of women who had suffered domesticviolence. The team’s aim is to adapt the sessionso that it can be appropriate to be targeted atwomen from the different BME communities.

Low Secure and Community ForensicDirectorate

The CDW for the Low Secure and CommunityForensic Directorate, Sharon Esprit has beenworking hard raising cultural awareness and theprofile of the African Caribbean Clinical Lead,Eric Adjaidoo within the prisons we serve andsecure units of the directorate.

She has provided ongoing support to the PrisonIn-reach Team to improve understanding ofBME patient issues to ensure culturallyappropriate care.

A drama based cultural awareness trainingevent was developed with the support of theCDW and was very positively received by 14service users and 64 members of staff. They feltthat the drama was a very effective way oflearning.

Sharon has also developed a staff survey for theLow Secure and Community ForensicDirectorate which will reach about 40 staff.

servicedeveloper

their involvement has been support withchildcare, travel expenses and support at home.Consideration will need to be given to how wecan remove these barriers as we improve ourengagement and involvement.

Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP)

CDWs from both the Trust and NHS NottinghamCity have been involved in supportingcommunity leaders to access WRAP training,funded by the National Mental HealthDevelopment Unit. The Trust CDWs haverecently been working with one of theCommunity Facilitators from the NottinghamAfrican Women’s Empowerment Forum(NAWEF) organisation to develop the rollout of this.

So far 13 facilitators have been trained todeliver culturally sensitive WRAP programmes. This provides an excellent opportunity forservice users or patients to be more involvedin their care planning, focusing on recoveryand what makes them feel well ratherthan on their illness.

The CDWs have been developing thecapacity of organisations that don’tnormally engage with mental healthservice providers, yet have access tomost of the marginalised BMEcommunities.

A full list of the organisations that have beensupported so far and the type of support offeredare listed later in this review.

Some examples of this development are:

• Raising awareness of mental health andmental health services

• Supporting organisations that deliver trainingto develop a mental health awareness moduleas part of their training

• Supporting with the development ofconstitutions to include emotional health andwellbeing and access to resources

• Creating links with other organisations as wellas the statutory sector service providers

• Develop new organisations wherecommunities are not coming together, forexample, the Polish community in the County

• Empower communities to influence the mentalhealth services.

The Team have been supporting new and smallgroups for approximately six months andexisting and larger groups for three monthsbefore identifying further groups to support inthe County, particularly Bassetlaw. Targetedwork has been delivered by the CDW, BeverleyTaylor, to engage new European communities aswell as other BME communities. The needs inthe County are different and there is more effortrequired to establish and develop supportmechanisms for the BME communities, who areliving in fairly isolated conditions.

The CDWs are exploring ways in which theestablished BME City organisations can supportthe communities in the County. This is currentlywork in progress and will need to be evaluatedat the end of next year.

During this year approximately 40 groups andorganisations have been supported by the CDWTeam in engaging with the mental healthservices or further development as anorganisation. Some of these appear later in thisdocument to not only inform you of theirprogress but to give you details on how tocontact them. It is planned that the CDW teamwill develop a directory of all the different typesof mental health services which exist both in theCity and County. This will mean we will have acomprehensive stakeholder list for all of theparties we work with. Hopefully this will be ajoint initiative between both primary andsecondary services over the next year.

capacity builder


Right: EKTA celebratesWorld Mental HealthDay 2009.

I am a Carer for my son who has beendiagnosed with Schizophrenia. I was struggling with understandingwhat my son was doing... I had a lackof confidence in discussing issueswith his nurse. Angela Simpsonenabled me to attend training coursesand provided me with informationabout Mental Health. She took timeto explain things to me. Thisempowered me and I became moreconfident to deal with issues.

Lloyd Feron, carer


The CDWs had been linked to particular service areas to help improve services as well ashelp communities access services. All CDWs will still have the main objective of engagingwith communities, raising cultural awareness and supporting third sector organisationshowever each one will have key projects that they will have to focus on in that area.

The table below shows how the CDWs were structured.

Directorate/PCT CDW Priorities

Child and Adolescent Angela Simpson • Assist families in accessing personalised, Mental Health (CAMHS) appropriate and timely support when needed

• Monitoring of the uptake of services by BME groups

Adult Mental Health (AMH) Mustafa Syed • Early Intervention in PsychosisKrishna Bhatti • Medicine management

Mental Health Services for Abdul Khan • Mapping where there’s a lack of servicesOlder People (MHSOP) Javid Khalique

Learning Disability Services (LD) Jayesh Jani • Identifying BME service users’ needs to assist learning disabilities services

Low Secure and Sharon Esprit • Raising profile of African Caribbean Nurse Specialist in prisonsCommunity Forensic • Developing staff survey

County Mental Health Beverley Taylor • Engaging and developing new European communitiesBassetlaw • Identifying BME communities in Bassetlaw

Adult Mental Health (AMH) Samina Naz • Supporting to raise awareness of Direct Payments scheme• Identifying BME communities in the County

access facilitator

The CDWs were linked to the directorates tobuild links with services and to understandthese areas better and areas of development.They then went on to champion race equalityon each of the local equality and diversityforums. Aneela Asim supported the Trust’sEquality and Diversity Steering Group acrossall services; this ensured that there was aconsistent approach and contributingmechanism at each level.

The CDWs have also contributed to theEquality Impact Assessments in the services

they have been linked to. They have alsoraised the cultural awareness of staff as wellas providing support to medical practitionersto better understand the needs of familiesaround faith and spirituality. This hasenabled families to understand the need ofmedical intervention whilst practitionersunderstand the needs of families who wanttheir faith and spirituality to be a part of anindividuals care pathway.

The Service Manager role ended in March2010. The post was created to provide

support to the CDWs, which includeddevelopment of a framework for the deliveryof the DRE agenda over a period of 18months. To ensure a smooth transition, theCDWs will be restructured for 2010/2011 andmanaged under the directorates or area theyhave been supporting.

This restructure is a positive step towardsmainstreaming community engagement,development, empowerment and race equalityas being a part of core business rather than astand alone service.

The CDWs will continue to develop andimprove services in line with the DRE agendabut will now work as an integrated part ofservices.

CDW Future directorate link

Jayesh Jani AMH with a link to LD

Samina Naz AMH City and County

Mustafa Syed AMH City and County

Krishna Bhatti AMH City and County

Angela Simpson CAMHS – City and County with a link tosubstance misuse

Javid Khalique MHSOP City/County

Abdul Khan MHSOP City/County

Beverley Taylor AMH County, cross directorate remit, Bassetlaw region

Vacant Low Secure and Community Forensic

(previously Link to Arnold lodgeSharon Esprit) and Wathwood

Race Equality and New Horizons

The CDWs will need to work with theregional and national policy drivers to ensurethat the race equality agenda continues to bedelivered as part of the New Horizons strategy(a recent policy which aims of improvingpeople’s quality of life and wellbeing, andimproving the quality and accessibility ofservices for people with poor mental health).They will also need to ensure that activity iscontinued to build the capacity of thevoluntary sector and faith community.

Contact the CDW team

For further information or support pleasecontact the team on the details below.Tel: 0115 952 9451Email: [email protected]


Below left: Mustafa Syedworking in partnershipwith Julia Jefferson fromthe Alzheimer’s Society.

As a group leader I havepersonally gained emotionalsupport and strength throughworking closely with AngelaSimpson (CDW) on capacitybuilding issues. She hasenabled me to strengthen myleadership qualities for thegroup by providing accurateinformation on fundingstreams and signposting.

Angela has assisted us inwidening our network to workmore closely with Healthagencies... through her supportshe has assisted us in gainingconfidence and enabled us todevelop a young persons groupwhich we didn’t have before.

Faith Gakanje, NAWEF


Angela Simpson, CDW, CAMHSMobile: 07500 605 683 Email: [email protected]

My background is as a Mental Health Practitioner andI’m committed to assisting, enabling and supportingservice users and carers. As a trained Practitioner I haveacquired an understanding of mental health issuesfrom an ‘inside’ statutory service. I also advocate forservice user and carer empowerment which allow forvaluable contributions participation and communityengagement.

I want to make a difference in the perception andtreatment of mental illness within diversecommunities and aim to highlight issues of culture,race, ethnicity and various other components whichmay contribute to a person’s treatment of care andmay affect a person’s quality of life.

As a CDW I have an interest in the effectiveness ofmental health care. I am working towards ensuringthat better information regarding mental health isdisseminated in various formats in the community, thisalso includes raising awareness and reducing stigmaamongst BME communities. I will soon have theopportunity to co-ordinate a service user and carergroup based within the Involvement Centre inNottingham. I am also a trained Practitioner inCommunity Regeneration and Development andApplied Social Care Health and Communities. I have akeen interest in service improvement and development.

My key achievements this year have been:

• Finding funding for and giving support to NAWEFthrough delivering WRAP and the assistance ofdeveloping their youth group

• WRAP – Access Facilitator – delivery to communitygroups, success in completion and presentation ofoutcomes for groups to PCT commissioners

• Community engagement – refugees, asylumseekers and children

• Community participation – BME service userresearch in Sheffield – this have been contributedto by Dynamite Uhuru and Destiny mental healthservice user community groups

• Promoting Positive Partnerships Event

• Winning a Trust OSCAR in the Valuing Differencecategory.

Aneela Asim, Service Manager Email: [email protected]

I was recruited in September 2008 to lead anddevelop the work of the CDW Team. I amcurrently based between SPAN and WestminsterHouse in Nottingham and have been reporting toJulie Hall as part of the wider Social InclusionAgenda.

My previous role was Chief Executive of theNottinghamshire Black Partnership where Iworked for over five years, I worked oninfluencing race quality priorities acrossNottinghamshire and had worked in partnershipwith ONE Nottingham, Greater NottinghamPartnership, Nottingham Community andVoluntary Service, Community Network, Crimeand Drugs Partnership, City Health Partnershipand closely worked with the Children and YoungPeople’s Partnership where I chaired the Equalityand Diversity Shadow Board.

My passion for achieving race equality comesfrom personal experiences of the institutions Ihave encountered in my life, which includedschool, counselling services, and social services.These services had a lack of cultural awarenessand were not able to meet my needs, resulting inme facing many challenges. In the end thosenegative experiences have proved to be positiveas it has encouraged me to want to changethings.


• Hosting and organising the CDW ServiceLaunch

• Gaining national recognition for my teambeing one of good practice

• Initiating and developing a BME Service Userand Carer Group

• Jointly delivering community empowermentevents with the One Nottingham CommunityEmpowerment Group

• Leading on the RECC training

• Successfully managing a regional BME ServiceUser and Involvement Project

• Developing a framework for the CDW Team.

Aneela Asim (top), Angela Simpson

meet the teamThe next section has been dedicated to introducing the CDW Team and what theyfeel have been some of their personal achievements through the year.


Sharon Esprit, CDW, Low Secure andCommunity Forensic DirectorateMobile: 07500 605 682Email: [email protected]

I have always worked in a role where I havesupported people and my career began in the ITindustry. I gained extensive experience in theprovision of IT programming, technical support andproblem solving skills, during several successful yearswith a major London financial organisation.

A near death experience inspired me to complete aMasters degree in counselling at NottinghamUniversity and after graduating, as a person-centredcounsellor; I left the IT industry and worked for aNottingham based charity and various governmentorganisations as counsellor and personal advisor todisadvantaged people. Major achievements weresetting up a new counselling service for aDepartment of Work and Pensions and beingspecifically chosen by a counselling organisation tocounsel African Caribbean staff who worked forthe BBC Nottingham.

I joined the CDW Team in 2008 specifically to workin the Forensic Division and when I was asked whatmotivated me to become a CDW I replied, “Mypaid and voluntary work, thus far, highlights mypassion for helping people change their lives for thebetter and I’m committed to helping peopleovercome problems, whether they are personal orprofessional. I have a particular interest in workingwith BME groups as I’m aware that culturally, weare not encouraged to seek ‘outside’ help withemotional issues and have always queried apossible link with this attitude and the over-representation of African Caribbean people in thecriminal and mental health service”.

My work revolves around the staff, patients andcommunity accessing mental health services within

Sharon Esprit

the secure units and prisons in the City and County.I am also a member of the training anddevelopment sub-group within the CDW team.


• Developing NHS cultural awareness leaflets witha view to using or adapting them for theForensic wards

• Taking the lead on a new staff survey

• Re-establishing links with Amaani Tallawah

• Building new working relationship with PhysicalTherapy in the Community (PTIC) organisationand will help their service users access DirectPayments facilities and refer Wells Road Centrepatients to them

• Became a Forensic Services representative of theforum looking into transitions of patientsbetween directorates, with my specific focusbeing patients referred to or from ForensicServices

• Raising cultural awareness and the profile of theAfrican Caribbean Clinical Lead within theprisons and secure units

• Supporting Prison In-reach Staff with BMEpatient issues

• Became a Low Secure and Community ForensicDirectorate representative, on recommendation,of the Trust Wide Race Equality Forum

• Successfully selected for a place on the TrustBME Mentoring Scheme

• Winning a Trust OSCAR in the ValuingDifference category.

I would like to express my thanksfor the effort, organisation and hardwork that you put in. The Citizenshipevent was an opportunity forproviders in the community to cometogether for the benefit of the ESOLlearners at college. It was of a greathelp for these learners to know whatservices are available to them andhow to access them. The event provedto be successful due to your hard work.

Lindsay Ogden, Head of Skills for Life, North Notts College

Beverley Taylor, CDW, BassetlawMobile: 07833 047 956Email: [email protected]

I joined the Trust in November 2008 to coverBassetlaw and work in partnership with otherorganisations to raise awareness and addressbarriers to accessing mental health and othercommunity services. Having being involved indifferent areas of voluntary community work forseveral years, I enjoy interacting with people andpromoting social inclusion. I’m keen to increasethe involvement and contributions of BMEcommunities to ensure services are culturalappropriate and help individuals find effectivepathways of engagement.

I hope to encourage dialogue within communitiesaround mental health to combat myths andtackle discrimination, so concerns can bediscussed openly and addressed in a positive way.


• RECC Trainer accreditation

• Engaging with the private sector to accessnew and emerging communities

• Establishing contact with a South Asianwomen’s group in Worksop

• Organising a Polish Wellbeing Event – TheCrossing Church & Centre, Worksop to raiseawareness of mental health, health and othercommunity services

• Initiating, developing and capacity building aPolish community group in the county

• Organising the first BME Emotional Health &Wellbeing Event – The Crossing Church &Centre, Worksop. This event not only raisedawareness around mental health andcommunity services but also offered freehealth checks for BME community

• Jointly planning and hosting two CitizenshipEvents in partnership with North Notts College(NNC) – Worksop; aimed at BME students topromote mental health and carers advice alsocommunity services

• CDW presentation to English for Speakers ofOther Languages (ESOL) students at NNC.

Javid Khalique, CDW, MHSOPMobile: 07500 605 680Email: [email protected]

My background is in the health and social caresector with particular experiences in training anddevelopment and also management. I have alsoworked in the voluntary sector and enjoy working


within the community, especially on BME matters.

I am committed to the Trust’s mission and valuesand hope to create links between partnerorganisations, BME communities, service usersand carers and staff to help build bridges thatlead to better services.

I am part of a team, in an organisation, that I feelwill make a valuable difference to people. I neverfail to be amazed at people’s (including myself)ability to learn, grow and manage change.

I enjoy writing short articles, gardening and beingsociable. My family and work come a happy firstin my life.


• Mental health training for ‘We Are One’ and‘United Approach’ members

• A development project on mental health forBME young people and families

• Two large events promoting the Trust andcarer information with a total of 400attendees

• Establishment of a joint agency and communityscheme – “Improving Health for people fromBME communities in Broxtowe Borough”. Thisinvolved working closely with commissioners

• Drop in facility in Beeston through three groupsjoining hands to provide free welfare,educational and mental health advice,signposting and support

• Supporting Dr Beena Raj Kumar’s meeting withthe Asian women’s SAHARA group to promotethe Trusts services and mental health awarenesson issues such as depression, anxiety, culturalissues and needs people face

• Supporting Adele Cresswell (AssociateDirector, Governance) with anequivalent of Foundation Trust (eFT)consultation with the Wollaton Asian Ladies Association

• Development of the Patient’s Reference Groupdeveloped with a primary care practice to enableeffective communication and engagement withits large BME community list.

Jayesh Jani, CDW, Learning Disability ServicesMobile: 07766 780 490Email: [email protected]

I have over 20 years of experience of working withvoluntary organisations in both voluntary capacityand as a main job. I managed the NottinghamCommunity Health Advocacy Project, a health and

Beverley Taylor (top), Javid Khalique (middle),Jayesh Jani (bottom)


mental health advocacy project in Nottingham.The project aimed to increase and improve accessto healthcare for Nottingham’s BME community.This involved working in partnership withstatutory health service provider to developservices where gaps were identified or changewas required as well as to promote better accessto services.

Prior to joining the Trust as CDW, I was Healthand Social Care Partnership Officer with DerbyMillennium Network, a role in which I managedtheir CDWs in working towards implementationof the DRE agenda.

I am committed to ensuring BME communitiesare involved in the improvement of mental healthservices in Nottinghamshire. As part of thenational CDWs Champions Program, initiated bythe National Mental Health Development Unit(NMHDU), I gave feedback on a number ofoutcomes for the Delivering Race Equality (DRE)programme in March 2010.

As CDWs, we are committed to capacity buildingBME community groups so that they are betterequipped to allow them to provide mental healthservices commissioned by local NHS Trusts. I lookforward to speaking with BME organisations,service users, and their carers to contact me forany enquiries they have on provisions of mentalhealth and learning disability services that theycurrently receive.


• Successful completion of Invest to Innovatetraining leading to accreditation

• Successful completion of RECC Trainingleading to accreditation

• Assisted service users in successful applicationfor RECC training

• Supporting Swaminarayan Hindu Mission –ongoing work

• Supporting Sai Dham – ongoing work

• Started working relationship with the Trust’sAssertive Outreach Team

• Supporting Pakistan Centre – ongoing work

• Lead on Improving Access to PsychologicalTherapies (IAPT) locally as part of the nationalCDWs Champions Project, prepared actionsummary of local projects

• Completed CDWs Champions Project trainingin Manchester

• Assisted the Early Intervention Team on issueswith a Cambodian service user who was then

signposted to Speaking Up advocacy services

• Gave a speech about CDWs and mentalhealth services at Sai Dham Temple, alsointroduced Spiritual and Pastoral Care teammember to Sai Dham

• Organised and manned a CDWs stall andshowed various DVDs at Unwind Your Mindevent at West Bridgford Library and atCarlton Road Library

• Successfully delivered Mind Body & Soulevent at Swaminarayan Hindu Temple thatincluded speech on mental health servicesand carer issues and awareness raising ofdementia. Distributed and disseminated ofleaflets on mental health services andconditions. Information stall, Presentation onmental health services, IAPT, dementia andcarer assessments

• Partnership work with the Spiritual andPastoral Care Team

Krishna Bhatti, CDW, Adult Mental Health Mobile: 07766 736 267Email: [email protected]

I have a keen interest in promoting wellbeingand developing evidence based interventions forcommunity groups. I have been involved withvarious aspects of community work for quitesome time and enjoy interacting with peoplefrom all walks of life. Through partnershipworking, I endeavour to use my knowledge,skills and experience to bring about positivechange to people from vulnerable groups inthe community as well as those basedwithin the services.


• CDW Training and Development Sub-Group

• Initiating a clinical audit on medicationmanagement with support of Dr Chris Beeleyas part of the National CDWs Champions’project

• Delivered a successful training session to MScHealth Psychology Students at DerbyUniversity highlighting the importance ofconsidering cultural differences regardingillness perceptions; interpretations andresponse including reasons for delay in help-seeking behaviour

• Facilitated and developed the CDW internaltraining program and presented outcomes oftraining program at a local conference inCoventry. Completed evaluation report andwill be distributing it to other CDWs whoexpressed an interest nationally

• Initiating, supporting and developed a new Sikhwomen’s group called ‘Satsang’ meaning‘together’

• Supported carer who I met through a groupcalled Karam Yog (meaning ‘Wellbeing’) toaccess RECC training

• Delivered successful carers assessmentpresentation in Punjabi at the EKTA event

• Successfully been selected for a place on theTrust BME Mentoring Scheme

• Supported the planning and organisation ofPromoting Positive Partnerships Steering Group

• Jointly delivered CDW role presentation toRushcliffe Community Mental Health Team whowere very impressed with our service and wantto invite us back

• Delivered successful carers assessmentpresentation at a health and wellbeing eventorganised by colleague

• Co-wrote Joginder’s (service user) journey articlepublished in the Involvement annual report

• Delivered a training session to a group of AlliedHealthcare Professionals including healthpsychology trainees as well as academics on myrole as a CDW and Health Psychology stage twotrainee; highlighting the support offered by theTrust in this work-based training program

• Supported the organising of a very successfulnational conference on IAPT hosted by the BMEManaged Innovation Network

• Also successfully recruited a service user tospeak at the conference.

Mustafa Syed, CDW, Adult Mental HealthMobile: 07767 224 097Email: [email protected]

I work in Adult Mental Health and work closely with

the Early Intervention in Psychosis team. My currentinterest is in spirit possession and mental healthwhere some cultures may believe that mentalillness is a result of spirit possession. I have beenworking with carers and service users who areexperiencing this. It is interesting to find that spiritpossession in certain cultures is cured by faithhealers. This suggests that it may be good idea forthe professionals to work in partnership with thespiritual healers as well. It also highlights thatcarers can also mistake mental illness for spiritpossession. Therefore I have found that this cancause a lot of confusion amongst the professionals,carers and service users. This may not beintentional but due to lack of understanding andthen the information is misinterpreted which canthen lead to misdiagnosis.

I have been involved with communitydevelopment work for over 20 years and gaineda lot of experience, satisfaction, enthusiasm andpassion to improve services and empower peopleto access the right services for them. My interestin mental health came about whilst working as afamily support worker for the Children’s Centrewhere I came across many people from the BMEcommunities who suffered from some form ofmental illness but didn’t access services forvarious reasons which included stigma, fear, noknowledge, language barriers, and services notappropriate for their needs. My aim is to try andgive the right information support and training toall communities to empower and enable everyhuman being an equal opportunity in life toaccess what is available and make the most oftheir life for themselves and their families.


• Dementia Awareness Day – Bobbers MillCommunity Centre

• To raise the awareness of dementia in the BMEcommunities in Nottingham andNottinghamshire

• Enabled two radio programmes on RadioDawn (community radio station) to raiseawareness of dementia and mental health

• Delivered two presentations on raisingawareness of dementia to two communitygroups

• As a result of the Dementia Awareness Day Ihave done home visits with the Alzheimer’sSociety

• Supported carers to access various services andalso to attend the RECC training

• Worked with OT to support a family whobelieve the service user is possessed by spirits

• Supported Occupational Therapists in

Thank you for you contributionto the module, and well done... From the feedback you guys gotthe session was well receivedand well delivered. Sounds likeyou enjoyed the session as well. I will be contacting you again forcontributions on future modules.

Keith


Krishna Bhatti (left), Mustafa Syed (below)

Samina Naz (top), Abdul Khan

accredited trainers with the Trust

• Developed and delivered two sessions for the‘From the Inside out‘ emotional wellbeingprogramme for NHS Nottinghamshire County

• RECC accreditation

• Organised and facilitated a women only eFTconsultation event

• Successfully delivered presentations tocommunity groups in the community languages

• World Mental Health Day – organised culturalactivities in a week long programme of eventsat The Rosewood Centre in Ollerton and theInvolvement Centre in Nottingham

• Raised awareness about self directed supportwithin the BME communities

• Engaged a carer in the Department of Healthdementia strategy from the BME community.She is the only BME carer on board

• As a member of the National CDW Network Ihelped put together the National Terms ofReference

• Winning a Trust OSCAR in the ValuingDifference category.

Abdul Khan, CDW, MHSOPMobile: 07500 605 684Email: [email protected]

I joined the Trust in 2008 and I work with to theMHSOP Directorate. I am also part of MHSOP’sEquality and Diversity Forum and relevant meetings.I am committed to raising the Trust’s profile to BMEcommunities and to increase the involvement ofthose communities with the Trust. I have a lot ofexperience of developing successful BME ledcommunity based initiatives and implementingcommunity based programmes and projects.My interests include international socio-economic affairs, promoting racialharmony between communities andworking to eradicate poverty.

I am a qualified CommunityDevelopment Practitioner andhave a long experience ofworking with deprived anddisadvantaged communitieslocally as well as deliveringcommunity developmentprogrammes and projects inAzad Jammu and KashmirState (Pakistan). I haveworked as Director of LocalGovernment and RuralDevelopment in Azad


understanding faith and spirituality needs ofBME families

• Raised awareness in BME families of theimportance of medication

• Raised awareness amongst consultants inunderstanding spirit possession along sidemedication from a service user and familyperspective

• Supported service user and family in a tribunalwhich resulted in a positive outcome

• Representative of Equality and Diversity Forumfor Nottingham University Hospitals

• Representative of the County Equality andDiversity Forum

• Delivered a successful training session on faithsand cultures to staff from the voluntaryorganisation Framework.

Samina Naz, CDW, Adult Mental Health Mobile: 07767 204 176Email: [email protected]

I joined the Trust in March 2008. My previouswork experience has been varied and I havespent a number of years working very closelywith women from BME communities. As a CDWI have worked on public health issues. Animportant aspect to my role is to raiseawareness about mental health and emotionalwellbeing issues which are often neglectedwithin diverse communities. I am instrumentalin developing material in varying communitylanguages to ensure that services are accessibleto everyone.

In my present role I would like to developcommunity groups to ensure that BMEcommunities understand mental health servicesand are able to access services without fear. I amparticularly keen on developing resources forBME communities to ensure that information isaccessible and appropriate so that the public canreceive first hand information.

I have recently completed the DRE Mental HealthChampion Training in which I will be focusing myproject on ‘Supervised Community Treatment(SCT), implementation and conditional dischargein BME communities.’

I come from a Muslim faith background and Ihave a keen interest in working with communitiesabout the issues of witchcraft and mental health.


• Recruited two carers who have successfullycompleted the RECC training and become

with EKTA in Rushcliffe

• Completed the RECC training

• Completed Invest to Innovate training and using‘Problem Structuring and Problem Solving’techniques for better health and better futurefor disadvantaged communities of Nottingham

• Initiated and developed Mental Health Forumcalled ‘Rushcliffe Mental Health and WellbeingPartnership’ to look at mental health issuesincluding BME issues and organise events andworkshops to raise the profile of mental illnessin the community

• Wrote articles in national Urdu news papers toraise awareness of mental health issues

• Recruited BME members to the Trust

• Supported with eFT consultations in BMEcommunities

• Promoting the anti stigma campaign to BMEcommunities and raising awareness of services

• Supporting ex-service users to accessappropriate services.


Kashmir and empowered communities at grassrootslevel to solve their problems and contributed touplift local communities for better life.

I am currently engaged with voluntary andcommunity sector organisations, communitygroups and faith groups to build their capacity andraise awareness about health, mental health andsocial and emotional wellbeing in BMEcommunities of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.


• Referring ex-service users to the BME ServiceUser and Carer Group

• Delivering presentations on circles of fear inUrdu, and Punjabi to community groups

• Supported EKTA and Rushcliffe AsianCommunity Association and working inpartnership with these organisations for mentalhealth and social and emotional wellbeing

• Planned and implemented a luncheon club andhealth activities in the local Islamic Centre forolder people

• Co-hosted a World Mental Health Day event

You help me with training support;I can’t make it without your help.My health is poor, it’s very helpfulthat you pick me up from my door.Sometimes you feel so run down,you can’t make yourself up. Youwent out of your way to help me.

Santosh Kaur, carer


Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (IMCA)Activities Advocacy servicesContact Diana Spencer, tel: 0115 962 8275

email: [email protected] • Advising on training and education of staff

regarding BME service users• Providing medicine management information for

BME service users on sections (supported by EricAdjaidoo)

• Signposting staff to BME service users and carersorganisations

• Advising on local BME issues and changes in theMental Health Act.

Nottinghamshire African Women’sEmpowerment Forum (NAWEF)

Activities Developing refugee and asylum seekers forum Contact Faith Gakanje, tel: 07769 809 129Support • Identified support required

• Assisted in funding applications• Improved understanding of healthcare and the

importance of registering with a GP• Assistance in service development and showcasing

of WRAP• Supported consortium One Africa Partnership to

enable asylum seekers have a stronger voice.

Uhuru GroupActivities Service user led mixed or single sex community groups Contact Sandra Collins, tel: 07903 971 064 Support • Supported participation and engagement through

service user led research project • Applied for ‘opening up initiative‘ funding to

develop a local and regional service user network • Signposted service users to the Involvement Centre • Enabling service user participation• Assisted in the development of their service • Develop service user involvement to bring issues to

the forefront• Assist in the development of service user

empowerment • Support decision making processes and service

user arm.

DynamiteActivities Development of collaborative networking Contact Sharon Risden, tel: 0115 969 1300Support • Provided information regarding medicine

management for service users and carers.

Cooperative Community Action LtdActivities BME community project assisting in employment and

training. Also assists BME emerging communities andengaging in health issue.

Contact Rawshana Noor/Mark Smalley, tel: 0115 841 4221Support Identified following support areas:

• To assist in the development of health focus groups• To ensure NHS and statutory agencies are aware of

groups through promotional mental health andwellbeing activities

• To facilitate partnership work and to look atdeveloping counselling service.

• To assist in the development of drop-in centre.

We Are OneActivities Work with BME people on health and social care

United ApproachActivities Work with young people on health and sports activities

Beeston Muslim CentreActivities Work on spiritual and welfare issues for Muslims in

BeestonContact Mr G. Din, tel: 07901 685 693Support • Work on their organisational policies and procedures.

• Gaining health funding• Mental health awareness training of staff and

volunteers• Mental health project for BME young people• Eid event with mental health and carers

information – 250 attendees• BME Equality and Diversity Health Group with local

strategic partners• Articles in Positive Magazine and Broxtowe Matters.

Support provided topartner organisations

This section provides a detailed overview of the activity we’ve undertaken as well as thepartners we’ve worked with. We hope the information also acts a database throughwhich partners, service users and carers can contact each other.

CDWs engage with partners at thePromoting Positive Partnerships Event


AwaazActivities Asian mental health resource unit for personal and

community services.Contact Angela Kandola, tel: 0115 924 5555Support • Involvement Asian Men’s Group

• Planning for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME orchronic fatigue syndrome) group

• Discussing mental health and training on issues.

BECONNActivities Services for BME carers as part of Carers FederationContact Joyce Francis, tel: 0115 912 8016/7Support • Carer’s event promoting mental health issues

• Support and information on carer’s rights, puttingpeople first, access to assessments, stroke careand champions for change

• Liaison on grant aid• Organised a eFT consultation for the group.

Wollaton Asian Ladies Association Contact Dhalwant Manjeet Jones, tel: 0115 925 2498Support • Information and support with grant aid bid for

“Challon Chullay”• Organised a eFT consultation for the group• Article in Positive.

Karam Yog Activities Promoting wellbeing, skills and training for all

members of BME communitiesContact Mr Joginder Singh Prem, tel: 07957 304 651Support • Signposting to training courses (base camp; a-z

training) to help with funding applications • Delivery presentation of role of CDWs; as a result

some members approached us to signpost themto services

• Written an article in the Positive magazine to helpraise awareness of organisations activities

• Raised profile of Joginder to speak at CDW Launchand IAPT conference to share his experience as aBME service user

• Signposted members of BME community to theorganisation

• Supported carers through RECC training• Written a character reference for one of their

members to help her with her application to stayin UK

• Invited Joginder to multi-faith forum meeting tohelp support trusts activities.

Gedling Asian EldersActivities Luncheon club for South Asian elders promoting

social inclusion and wellbeingContact Mr Sujit Singh Johal, tel: 0115 958 3244Support • Sign posting group to events to raise profile and

network • Sign posted to other organisations including

health trainers • Raised awareness of mental health issues.

Satsang Group Activities Promoting social inclusion and wellbeingContact Mrs Jasbir Kaur, tel: 07890 679 025Support • Initiated and supported the development of a

Sikh Women’s Group; forming a committee,terms of reference, policies etc with help fromSamina Naz

• Supported activities to be put in place for theirgroup; yoga class; children’s recreation; paintingand drawing; learning speaking and writingPunjabi; music classes; ESOL classes etc

• Signposted to other organisations for furthersupport in setting up.

Nottingham African Men’s Forum Activities Promoting social inclusion and wellbeing for this

groupSupport • Identified support needs

• Organisation no longer operational.

Physical Therapy In the Community (PTIC)Activities Voluntary organisation that specialises in rehab from

addiction, including dual diagnosis, using a holisticapproach including complementary therapy,massage, talking therapy and personal fitnessprogrammes.

Contact Simon Morley, tel: 07950 333 312, email: [email protected]

Support • Advising on Low Secure and Community Forensicpatients and their issues on leaving the service

• Signposted to Notts County Council DirectPayments advisor

• Raised awareness of organisation within BMEcommunities to increase referrals

• Signposted organisation to relevant fundingstreams.

Amaani TallawahActivities Supports African Caribbean/dual heritage people

who use mental health servicesContact Janet Brookes, tel: 0115 957 0020Support • Joint working with staff members to support a

service user through the care and problematicdrug use referral pathway

• Sign posting organisation to community teams inorder to increase referrals.


Polish Community GroupActivities Community support group promoting social inclusionContact Beverley Taylor, CDW, tel: 07833 047 956Support • Arranged emotional health and wellbeing

awareness evening• Directing people to community resources• Initiated a community group – still in discussion.

New Testament Church of God, WorksopActivities Pentecostal Christian church including prayer

meetings and community outreachContact Rev Keith Clarke, tel: 01909 487 940Support • Signposting to community activities and events

• Awareness of mental illness.

Pakistan ForumActivities • Health awareness for women

• Healthy eating sessions• Luncheon club• Exercise sessions• Health.

Contact Nabila Jabran, tel: 0115 978 3655Support • Linked service users carers to mental health services

• Hosted a women’s only eFT event• Working with social worker to arrange some

training on mental health conditions• Provided mental health information on conditions

in Urdu• Presentation on the role of CDWs in Urdu.

NG7Activities • Housing Support

• Employment Advice• Coffee mornings• Women into work project• Sewing classes.

Contact Asmara Qureshi, tel: 0115 979 1052Support • Provided mental health information on conditions in

Urdu• Arranging presentation by NHS volunteers and

arrange a visit for women to come in and meetvolunteers

• Signposted service users for help with applying forhousing and welfare rights.

Noor ProjectActivities • Coffee mornings

• Sewing classes.Contact Nabila Sajid, email: [email protected] • Supported development of the aims and objectives

as well as other policy areas• Helped set up bank account• Raised awareness about mental illness in the

community languages.

Framework – Waterloo CrescentActivities A supported housing service which provides a high level

of support to people with mental health problems.Contact Tel: 0115 847 0660,

email: [email protected] • RECC training

• Training around faiths and cultures.

Alzheimer’s SocietyActivities A service providing information, guidance and support

to people with dementia and their families. Contact Julia Jefferson, tel: 0115 934 3800,

email: [email protected] • Developed partnership with Alzheimer’s Society and

Bobbersmill Community Centre • Set up the Dementia Awareness Day at Bobbersmill

Community Centre supporting development of acarer’s group for dementia within BME communities

• Joint home visits with Alzheimer’s Society to BMEservice users and carers.

Radio Dawn 107.8fmActivities Radio Dawn aims to promote moral, social, spiritual

and inter-faith development through a variety of radioprogrammes, by educating, inviting, and enlighteningall communities to the true and peaceful message ofIslam through the radio.

Contact Tel: 0115 841 1800Support • Two radio slots.

• Presentations on: CDW role, mental health,reducing stigma associated with mental illness,reducing fear, spirit possession and mental illness.

Bobbersmill Community CentreActivities Community centre and mosque which provides

training classes.Contact Sajjad Ahmad, tel: 0115 841 5806Support • Developed partnership with Alzheimer’s Society and

Bobbersmill Community Centre • Set up the Dementia Awareness Day, at Bobbersmill

Community Centre • Investigating possible services that could be

accessed the organisation

• Researching possibility to set up luncheon clubfor the elderly

• Develop a Carer’s Group for dementia withinBME communities.

Rushcliffe Asian Community Association(RACA)

Activities Working for South Asian community of Rushcliffeincluding Indian, Pakistani and Mirpuricommunities. Activities include; • Luncheon club• Health events• Mental health awareness events• Older people get together and tackle their issues• Yoga sessions• Chair based exercise.

Contact Jit Osaan, tel: 0115 846 9147Support • Signposting for funding, carers support, health

activities and events• Presentations on mental health • Recruited membership for the Trust• Presentation on ‘DRE Agenda’ and ‘Breaking the

Circles of Fear’ in Punjabi• Planning for carers event in the County • Consultation event for eFT• Developing the organisation to involve more

people from BME communities to raise profile ofmental health

• Raising profile with statutory and voluntaryorganisations

• Supporting to engage with the carers andservice users to improve mental health andemotional wellbeing.


Working with the Community Development Workers hasenabled the Alzheimer’s Society to reach people whowould otherwise be inaccessible to us.

Mustafa Syed has become a highly valued and dependablecolleague, who has initiated partnership projects, sharedher skills and created a conduit to excluded communitiesfor the learning about dementia. She is a joy to work with.

The event at Bobbers Mill Mosque was an important step forward for the Alzheimer’s Society in Nottingham. This was made possible by the partnership working withMustafa. We reached people who would otherwise nothear our message. It was a real breakthrough for us. Thisis how we should all be working. Thank you Mustafa.

Julia Jefferson, Alzheimer’s Society

Dr Ramakrishnan is interviewed by Radio Dawn


Garage Mosque in Rushcliffe Activities Muslim faith activities including prayer and religious

events. Contact Haji Abdul MalikSupport • Supported management committee members to

engage with Nottingham City Council councillorsto support older people’s health activities includinga healthy eating project.

• Supported planning application for building amosque in West Bridgford.

Islamic Centre in the CityActivities Provides children’s education in Arabic, Mirpuri and

UrduContact Haji Abdul Qayyum, DirectorSupport • Providing advice for funding to establish the

luncheon club • Raised awareness of mental health issues

EKTAActivities • Regular activities for older people in the County

• Health activities, yoga, and chair based activities• Health sessions• Mental health awareness events • Supporting service users and carers and their

families for social and emotional wellbeing.• Outings for older people.

Contact Surinder Bawa, tel: 0115 923 3034Support • Funding advice

• Raising awareness about health and mental illness• Deliver Race Equality Sessions in English, Urdu

and Punjabi to tackle circles of fear around mental illness

• Formed the steering group for consultation andhelping EKTA to move forward to obtain charitystatus by registering in the Charity Commission

• Motivated the organisation to host a WorldMental Health Day event partnering the Trust

• Planning to have sessions on dementia anddepression in South Asian communities in Englishand Punjabi language

• Recruiting members for Trust.

Pakistan CentreActivities A community centre providing support and services

covering health, education and social welfare.Commissioned to provide health trainer servicesthrough the Change of Heart Project. Also recentlyset up the Autism and Aspergers Support Group.

Contact Ilyas Aziz, tel: 0115 958 2973Support • Support and help in raising awareness of the

Autism and Aspergers Support Group • Facilitated joint working discussions with a

clinician who specialise in learning disabilities• Encouraged the centre to host visits from service

users with learning disabilites• Exploring joint initiative to organise an emotional

health and wellbeing event in March• Introduced/enrolled the centre’s Imam to the

Trust’s Multi-Faith Forum.

Swaminarayan Hindu Mission Activities Hosts social activities and regular prayer meetings

for Hindu communities of mainly Gujarati origins.Social activities cover separate male and female

groups for all ages.Contact Divyesh Rughani/Virendra Dave, tel: 07920 497 149Support • Provided support to organise second anniversary

celebration in May 09• Recruited new members to the Trust.• Organised the Mind, Body & Soul event in

November 09 • Arranged for presentations on the subject of

CDWs role, IAPT services, carer assessments,dementia awareness.

• Distributed leaflets on mental illness andtreatment in Gujarati and English, with supportfrom MIND.

Sai Dham NottinghamActivities Social activities and regular prayer meetings for

Hindu communities of all origins.Contact Leela Sreenath/Padam Sharma, tel: 0115 912 8088Support • Sourced potential funding to modernise buildings.

• Presentation on role of CDWs and mental healthservices focusing on stigma

• Introduced member of Trust’s Spiritual and PastoralCare Team to the organisation

• Distributed application forms to join Faith LiaisonGroup. Distributed leaflets on mental illness inEnglish, Punjabi and Hindi, with support fromMIND.

Nottingham Chinese Welfare AssociationActivities Provides services to Chinese, Cantonese and

Mandarin speaking communities of mainly Buddhistfaith. Circulates monthly newsletters, provideinterpreting services for their members, and haveassisted health services.

Contact Thomas Tang/Jocelin Zhou/June Li, tel: 0115 950 7888Support • Arranging support and assistance with access to

funds, specifically with activities for elderly• Arranging to raise awareness within Chinese

community about mental health and learningdisability services

• Arranging talks to client group around howpositive thinking affects people's life and how tomaintain good mental health.

Sewa International Nottingham (City/County)Activities Charity fund raising organisationContact Sudheer Gupta, tel: 07853 964 237,

email: [email protected] • Distributed leaflets in English/Punjabi/Hindi about

mental illness support from MIND• To follow-up: Monthly sessions to raise awareness

of mental illness and issues of stigma.

Signpost to Polish Success/East Midlands Po-Polsku (City/County)

Activities Information and support to Polish and other easternEuropean communities. Provide ESOL classes andpublish monthly newspaper in Polish in the EastMidlands.

Contact Dr Beata Polanowska, tel: 07851 307 314Support • Advised of potential funding sources for major

event in Summer 09• Advocated successfully to University Hospitals to

help fund event• Agreed to disseminate.

Thank you for your very pricelesscontribution at the conference. You were so honest and spoke aboutyour experiences from the heart, which was truly inspiring.

Dr Beena Rajkumar, Specialist Registrar in Psychotherapy

The CDW Team

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