Publication • Race, Mental Health and Criminal Justice: Moving Forward
Dania Hanif
Published: August 31, 2017
A joint briefing, ‘Race, mental health and criminal justice: moving forward’, from social justice charity, Nacro, Clinks, Association of Mental Health Providers and Mental Health Foundation as partners in the Mental Health Consortia, and the Race Equality Foundation has found that voluntary sector practitioners and service users from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds…
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Publication • Building a VCSE Consensus on Health and Work
Dania Hanif
Published: March 28, 2019
As part of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, Association of Mental Health Providers (leads of the Mental Health Consortium) has been working in partnership with UK Health Forum, Race Equality Foundation, and the National LGB&T Partnership in conducting a scoping and consensus building exercise to: Recognise what health and disability-focused organisations in the Voluntary Community…
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Publication • Arm in arm: The relationships between statutory and voluntary sector mental health organisations
Dania Hanif
Published: July 24, 2019
Commissioned by the Association of Mental Health Providers, the Centre for Mental Health report Arm in arm, warns that voluntary and community organisations face numerous financial barriers including reductions in local government funding, short-term and ‘more for less’ contracts, unpredictable and delayed decision-making, and the unintended consequences of national policies. Smaller organisations are particularly at…
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Publication • Peer Support: Working with the VCSE Sector
Dania Hanif
Published: September 17, 2020
Association of Mental Health Providers, NSUN, and Mind have jointly produced a thought-piece outlining how voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations can meaningfully contribute to the provision of peer support in mental health; and offer practical examples of the diverse ways in which this is already happening. We argue that the knowledge, skills,…
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