300 Voices
300 Voices worked with voluntary and community organisations, schools, family, friends and carers of young African and Caribbean men.
What was 300 Voices all about?
Stigma and discrimination can exist where there is a lack of understanding of the culture and needs of others.
Piloted in the West Midlands, 300 Voices bought together community and mental health professionals, and young African and Caribbean men who have experience of mental health problems through workshops and conversations with a view to improving the experience of young African and Caribbean men when using mental health services.
Why 300 Voices? Who is 300 Voices?
300 Voices was a partnership. The pilot project was launched in January 2013 in partnership with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, the West Midlands Police, Birmingham City Council and young African and Caribbean men with experience of the mental health system.
300 Voices also worked with voluntary and community organisations, universities and schools, family, friends and carers of young African and Caribbean men, whose stories and perspectives are all vital to the conversation and towards improvement.
Doreen Osbourne, COPE Mental Health Association said;
“Our work is supporting them to come to services earlier, to build relationship and trust and services they do get are appropriate and culturally sensitive. This project needs to open up that debate between young African and Caribbean men and their families and statutory bodies. If you can start that dialogue, and it can be open and honest, it can build trust on both sides.”
Much research has been done to show young African and Caribbean men are more likely to have negative experiences when using mental health services, which means that many young men have poorer mental health as a result. Academic research evidence and personal stories strongly suggests that the relationship between young African or Caribbean men and statutory mental health services is a compelling and key reason for this.
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