Progress Report 3 - September 2002

1. Research proposal developed further in preparation for the peer review exercise to be conducted in October 2002
2. Project re-named and key areas of activity (modules) developed
3. The establishment of BE4's administrative and management infrastructure:
   development of contacts database
   • confirmation of steering group members, partners & advisers
   • scheduling of meetings for duration of project
   • monthly progress reports
   • scheduling of half-yearly progress reports (including finance reports) for our funders
     
   • conference, publication & future funding strategy initiated
     
4. BE4 leaflets for service providers and participants created and reproduced (in English in the first instance) for dissemination in October 2002
   
5. Logo for non-website material created
   
6. BE4 website designed for launch in October 2002
   
7. Additional formal and informal support secured from research and teaching staff at the University of Glamorgan (Professor Joyce Kenkre & Jim Richardson respectively)
8. Application for the post(s) of Research Assistant and data collectors submitted for approval in order for posts to be advertised in October 2002
9. Meetings with members of the steering group and representatives of key statutory and non-statutory organisations:
   • Tim Bennett - Riverside CMHT
   • Tony Hendrickson - Black Voluntary Sector Network
   • Bronwen Bermingham - 'Barefoot' Health Workers Research Project
   • Pat Gregory - Triangle Project
   • Alan Herbert - South Riverside Community Development Centre
   • Jane Williams - Cardiff Local Health Group
   • Mark Sims - Ethnic Minority Achievement Service, School Service, Cardiff Council
   • Owen Jenkins and Sion Ward - Cardiff Research Centre
   • Akli Ahmed - Expert on Somali community
   • Steve Kaireh - The Buzz Café (Information centre in Grangetown)
   • Jenny McBride - Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Whitchurch Hospital
   • Paulette Palmer - Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Centre
   • Neeta Baicher - Neville Street Project
   • Martyn Jenkins - Cardiff Community Health Council

   Steve Maddern - Community Mental Health Nurse (Links Community Mental Health Team)

10. E-mail discussion group established to disseminate information and provide an electronic framework for a flow of information from other projects related to our work. The name of the listserv (following jiscmail conventions: BME-WALES-HEALTH - SOCIAL CARE. To join, get in contact with BE4 staff.
    

Dr Roiyah Saltus - Blackwood
Thursday, 01 October 2002

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