Black Minority Ethnic

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• Black Minority Ethnic
• Mental Health
• Community Development Work
• Asylum Seekers , Refugees New Communities
• Ibrar Uddin

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Structure of CDW Team within BENPCT

• Team of 5 CDWs employed
• 10 priority areas
• Older People
• Working Age Adults
• Children and Young People
• Asylum Seekers and Refugees (New Communities)
• Carers
• Learning disabilities
• Criminal Justice
• Gender and sexuality
• Service user involvement
• Faith and spirituality

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BENPCT Boundaries

• 6 Localities, Sutton,Kingstanding, Birmingham
  North East, 3Ss, Washwood Heath/Hodge Hill, BSA
• 4 Constituencies, Hodge Hill, South Yardley,
  Erdington, Sutton.
• 17 Wards
• 438,000 Population
• 237 Individual GPs

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Delivering Race EqualityThe three building
blocks

• More appropriate and responsive services
• Develop organisations and the workforce
• Improve clinical services
• Improve services for specific groups

• Community engagement
• Engage communities in planning services
• Supported by 500 new CDWs

• Better Information
• Improved monitoring of ethnicity
• Better dissemination of information and good
  practice
• Improved knowledge about effective services

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Community Engagement

• Voluntary and Statutory Organisations
• British Red Cross, My Time, Polish Community
  Centre, Polish Shop, Pridestart.
• Refugee council, Stone Road Hostel.

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Community Engagement

• Social Forum for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
• PrideStart, Capacity building
• Somalian Community Mental Health Awareness Event
• Mosques Mental Health Roadshow
• Barbershop Magazine

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Contacts details

• CDW Ibrar Uddin
• Address Birmingham East and North PCT
• Waterloo Road, Yardley
• B25 8LH
• Mobile number 07966899381
• E-mail address Ibrar.Uddin_at_benpct.nhs.uk