Progress Report 4: October - November
2002
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Job vacancies for the research assistantship and data collectors
posts were advertised 14th November. Interviews for the RA post
will take place in December 2002 and January 2003. The first tranche
of applications for data collectors posts will be processed in
January 2003.
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Met with Tina Jones, the new contact and representative of the
Health Services Policy and Development Division of the Welsh Assembly
Government (previously known as the Primary Community Care Division).
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Ethical Approval applications are nearly ready for submission.
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Letter of acknowledgement and permission requested from key stakeholders.
Key outcomes - 5 November meeting
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Confirmation that Professor Joyce Kenkre and Dr
Jim Richardson will play an official and unofficial role respectively
as champions of the BE4 research project within the School of Care
Sciences.
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Confirmation that Willie Charles will act as a champion
of the project from within the Welsh Assembly Government.
Key outcomes - 2 December meeting
Profiling Black and Minority
Ethnic Groups in Cardiff
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Background reading for the profiles of Butetown, Grangetown and
Riverside continues.
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Background reading for the profiles of the target groups continues.
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Database searches of relevant publications (Medline,
EMBASA, Caredata, and the Social Science Citation Index) are underway.
Supplementary searches of the Ethnic Health Information Database,
the Royal College of Nursing Library Database, and OCLC Articles
First and Papers First. References in identified texts will also
be searched.
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Sample of search terms:
Asian, Black, Chinese, Vietnamese, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Indian,
African, African-Caribbean, Ethnic Minorities, mental health,
guidelines, transculturalism, anti-racist practice, appropriateness
criteria.
Equity: Assessing mental health and social
care needs
Empowerment: promotion & outreach
Attended the following events:
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World Conference Against Racism - Follow Up (4 October)
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WOMEN STEPPING OUT - Alleviating the problems of social isolation
and loneliness caused by social economic and health factors ( 5th
October)
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Positive About Diversity - Diversity Awards Wales (11 October 2002)
Effectiveness:Establishing Monitoring
frameworks
- 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.
- Evaluation: An agreement was made between BE4 and the two keys Division
of the Welsh Assembly Government. The following in an except from
a document sent to the BE4 team regarding evaluating the project:
The importance and role of evaluation
The advantages of using evaluation are as follows:
1. AWETU: Evaluation helps organisations protect or boost their
resources by demonstrating that they can achieve valuable results.
To be able to analyse critically the project and provide actionable
advice as well as evidence of effectiveness and achievements of
the project as a whole is important for local voluntary organisations
such as AWETU who depend on funding for projects that will help
in their fight equitable service provision for their clients.
2. Stakeholders & Funders: One of the important contributions
of evaluation is to inform stakeholders and funders about the detail,
sum, and contribution the project is and could make. The push here
is to embed evaluative measures from the beginning so as have indicator
data that we can analysis to provide a systematic and rigorous overview
of
achievements.
Purpose of evaluating the BE4 Project
In bringing the above two points together, the over-riding aim
is to identify evidence of progress and where necessary, put in
place corrective measures.
What will the development of evaluative procedures entail?
Evaluation is usually developed in accordance to the length and
total funding of the project. As it stands, we have not allocated
funds toward evaluation. However, the cost of distributing evaluation
forms after the discussion group sessions, or including evaluative
questions in the interviews that are conducted is low. The onus
will be on (a) establishing evaluative procedures in order to chart
the success of the project in terms of its objectives and deliverables
and (b) researching and examining the importance of evaluation in
the practice framework we hope to roll out.
Efficiency: Documenting
& disseminating project activities
The BE4 website has been mounted on the Internet.
Although presently a 'stand alone site' eventually the pages will
be embed in the AWETU website which is currently under construction.
The website is divided into five main areas:
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About the BE4 Project - 'frequently asked questions'
format
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Progress Reports - list of reports we hope to
produce by the end of the project
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Project Reports - bi-monthly progress reports
from staff
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Contacts
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Links and Spotlight Articles - including 'issues
of the month' and links related to our subject areas and target
groups
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BME projects in Wales - project registration form
(each month a project from this database will be flagged up and
promoted)
Action Points
for December 2002 - January 2003
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Appoint research assistants
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Process the data collectors posts
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Submit ethical approval form (and related approval
letters and access forms)
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Contact targeted organisations to set up group
discussions
Dr Roiyah Saltus - Blackwood
Thursday, 01 December 2002
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