Ethnicity & Mental Health Improvement Project
media from WCEN's BME mental health projects
healing our broken village
Wandsworth Annual BME Mental Health conference
Starting in 2009, working alongside the New Testament Assembly Church in Tooting, WCEN began hosting annual Conferences named ‘Healing our Broken Village’ that sought to bring together people with public agency leaders and other stakeholders, including artists, performers, community leaders and researchers, to hold collective conversations on how to address BAME mental health inequalities through shared dialogue and coproduction.
12th Annual HOBV Conference Video Update 2020
Unable to meet in person due to Covid-19, a HOBV Video update was created
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Vanessa Ford at 11th Annual HOBV 2019
Vanessa Ford, Chief Executive of SWLSTG interviewed at HOBV11
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11th Annual HOBV Conference 2019
Full Conference video for the 11th HOBV Conference October 2019
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9th Annual HOBV Conference Video Update 2017
Full Conference Video for the 9th HOBV Conference October 2017
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8th Annual HOBV Conference 2016
Full Conference Video for the 8th HOBV Conference October 2016
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7th Annual HOBV Conference 2015
Full Conference video for the 7th HOBV Conference October 2015
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BME Mental health forum
Wandsworth bi-monthly BME Mental Health forum
The Wandsworth BME Mental Health Forum was established in 2010 with the aim of addressing inequalities across our mental health systems by re-orientating our approaches towards community-centred solutions. Out aim is to tailor and coproduce services that are culturally sensitive and appropriate for the BME Community.
Please click here to download the minutes of the February 2020 meeting
Please click here to download the minutes of the July 2020 meeting
Please click here to download the minutes of the November 2020 meeting
Black minds matter
Wandsworth BME youth programme
In 2018, we established Black Minds Matter. We did this to change the narrative about black communities, and to celebrate their lives, their ambitions and their dreams. Black Minds Matter. Our work has included providing mentors for young people to guide them towards the careers they would like, culturally-adapted early intervention and prevention work in schools, youth clubs and faith groups, and supporting them to access mental health support and well being services.
Black Minds Matter is…
Young people explaining what Black Minds Matter is, why it exists and what it involves.
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Being young, black and growing up in London
Presentations from Black Minds Matter at the Annual Wandsworth BME Children & Young People’s Conference 2019
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Wandsworth BME Children & Young People’s Mental Health Conference 2019
Full Conference video for the 2nd Annual Conference April 2019
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Are you Listening?
BMM presents ‘are you listening?’ at the 10th Annual HOBV Conference 2018
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Black Minds Matter Summer Leadership Programme 2018
Video from the leadership programme over the summer of 2018 with SWLSTG
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1st Wandsworth BME Children & Young People’s Mental Health Conference 2018
Full Conference video for the 1st Annual Conference April 2018
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