National BME Mental Health Network
2007 Conference - 24/25 September, Manchester Conference Centre
5th Annual conference of the National Black & Minority Ethnic Mental Health Network
Issues affecting the relationship between front line mental health workers and service users and their carers and families.
Background to the conference
This year’s conference will explore the issues facing mental health professionals delivering services on the front line - in hospital wards, through outreach services, in community based projects, housing and a range of other social services. How are they, and the services they deliver, viewed by service users? How do professionals regard the services they provide and the way in which they are perceived by colleagues and service users? How can they be better supported? Do they see any link between their role and Delivering Race Equality, the core plank of government policy on BME mental health?
 
The conference

The two day agenda will include:

• A critique of Delivering Race Equality by Professor Sashi Sashidharan
• A panel session, facilitated by Dr Albert Persaud, featuring front line mental health professionals, a service user and carer providing expert personal testimony
• Four parallel sessions on key issues of training, the Choice Agenda, refugees and asylum seekers, and relationship issues between service providers and service users
• An exploration of the models for service user participation by Dominic Makuvachuma-Walker, Catch-A-Fiya
• Results of a trial which went beyond prescription drugs in treating depressed women of Pakistani origin by Dr Waquas Waheed, Lancashire NHS Trust/University of Manchester
• Does the BME led sector provide the best support for BME service users? By Cashain David, Ujima Health and Social Care
• Plus nine workshops on day 2
 
Who should attend
• Service users, survivors and carers
• Hospital based mental health staff
• Outreach/community based mental health staff
• Psychiatrists and psychologists
• Mental health service directors and managers
• Training managers
• CSIPs
• Regional government and government departments
• Supporting people and supported housing initiatives
• Voluntary sector organisations
• Professional associations
• Mental health campaigning organisations
 
Evening social events
• Service user/survivor social - free and exclusive to service users and survivors - by invitation
• Managers’ networking social - by invitation
• Buffet and entertainment from Stereohype - available to all (price £15.00 - but no charge with free places)
 
Delegate fee
Full rate - £275
Reduced rate (limited number for charities and academics) - £175
Service users/survivors/carers - limited number of free places (this includes free buffet on the Monday evening)
Early booking discounts are available until 31 July 2007; these reduce the full rate place to £250 and the reduced rate places to £155.
 
For enquiries about the conference please contact Central Conference Consultants Ltd on 0115 916 3104
For more information about the Network go to www.bmementalhealth.org.uk
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