August 2002- Progress Report 2
Summary
General Administration
Team Meeting (6 August 2002)
Profiling Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in
Cardiff
Equity: Assessing mental health and social care
needs
Empowerment, promotion & outreach
Effectiveness: Establishing Monitoring frameworks
Efficiency:Documenting & disseminating project
activities
Action Points
Summary
The month of August
was spent developing the website, working on the project leaflets, as
well as working on the applications to secure approval from the University
of Glamorgan Research Ethics Committee.Time was also spent drafting
job descriptions for the post of Research Assistant and the posts of
data collectors. Raising the profile of the project continues, as does
the recruitment of members to the BME-Wales-Health-Social-Care email
discussion group. A team meeting was held 6 August and some key outcomes
have been summarised in this report.
General
Administration
- Job descriptions
drafted for Research Assistantship and the bilingual data collectors
- Contact made
with Linda Dyer, representative of the Primary Community Care Division
of the Welsh Assembly Government (our funders). A schedule has been
established for the 6-monthly reports (project report + budget report):Sept
2002, March 2003, Sept 2003 & December 2003
Team
Meeting (6 August 2002)
- Project plan
submitted to team for consideration and development. Once completed
and approved, the project plan will become the project's key guidance
document
- New shortened
name of the project approved: BE4 Project
- Full name:
BE4 - Improving the quality of mental health and social care services
to Black and Minority Ethnic people in Cardiff: Equity, Empowerment,
Effectiveness & Efficiency
'BE' is the shortened
version of Black and Minority Ethnic People(BME). Equity, Empowerment,
Effectiveness, and Efficiency are the four principles underpinning and
were taken from the strategy document 'Improving Mental Health Services
in Wales: A Strategy for Adults of working Age' (Sept, 2001). The strategy,
together with the National Service Framework for Wales', form the template
by which Mental Health and related social care is to be assessed and
monitored.
Attendees: S.Procter,
S.Smith, E.Williams & R. Saltus - Blackwood
Profiling
Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in Cardiff
Meeting with people concerned Black and Minority Ethnic people in Cardiff
across the various sectors is an important activity in the first phase
of this project, the findings of which will be standardised in a questionnaire
to all contacts later in the autumn of 2002
Meetings held in
August:
Mark Sims, Ethnic Minority Achievement Service, School Service, Cardiff
Council
Equity:
Assessing mental health and social care needs
One of the key aims
in this module during this first phase of the project (June - October
2002) is to profile existing mental health and social care services.
Meeting held in August 2002:
- Jenny McBride
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Whitchurch Hospital
- Paulette Palmer
- Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Centre
Empowerment:
promotion & outreach
- Black History
Month - discussions continue regarding hosting a BE4 event
- BME-WALES-HEALTH
- SOCIAL CARE. Established 29 July, at the end of August 2002 membership
has increased to 55 members
Effectiveness:Establishing
Monitoring frameworks
- Contacted Cardiff
County Council regarding the development of their Ethnic Monitoring
Scheme
- Continued to
work on literature review of established monitoring frameworks related
to specific areas: mental health provision; 'race' and ethnicity;
culturally sensitive and anti-racist practices, and assessing the
mental health and social care needs of Black and Minority ethnic groups
in Britain.
Efficiency:
Documenting & disseminating project activities
- Submitted webpages
application form
- Research web
designers for the website
Action
Points for September 2002
- Finalise BME
groups to be targeted
- Work on the October
launch of the website
- Begin work on
area profiles
- Finalise sampling
frame
- Develop subject
themes for interviews
- Team meeting
& Steering group meeting (10 September, 2002)
Dr. Roiyah Saltus
- Blackwood
Tuesday, 03 September 2002
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