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Making Recovery Real - Recovery and black and minority ethnic [BME] communities
Date recorded: 26 February 2009
What does recovery mean to BME communities? How do we share recovery messages in BME communities? This session offers an opportunity to learn about experiences in this area of work and to discuss this learning. It features presentations from:
  • Akin Fatunmbi, Men in Mind (Health in Mind); Anne Connor, Outside the Box; and Jacintha Canary, Sahelyia
  • Pratima Pershad, Glasgow Association for Mental Health; Jacki Gordon, Jacki Gordon + Associates

Finding Strength from Within – Experience from the Lothian BME recovery group project
Akin Fatunmbi, Men in Mind (Health in Mind); Anne Connor, Outside the Box; and Jacintha Canary, Sahelyia
This presentation gives an overview of the development of the Lothian BME Recovery group. It draws on the findings from the report ‘Finding Strength from Within – Experience from the Lothian BME Recovery Group Project’ which is based on work with Edinburgh based projects Men in Mind (Health in Mind), the NHS Lothian Minority Ethnic Mental Health Project and Saheliya, to look at mental health and recovery experiences of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Akin Fatunmbi et al. Finding strength from within (26.91 MB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Akin Fatunmbi and Anne Connor - Finding strength from within (460.78 kB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Saheliya (628.37 kB)
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Glasgow BME recovery group: Overview of experience – steps towards recovery
Pratima Pershad, Glasgow Association for Mental Health
Jacki Gordon, Jacki Gordon + Associates
This presentation discusses how the concepts of recovery are being explored in the some of the BME communities. The women coming to the recovery group (GAMH) are from a wide ranging background with a common belief in recovery. Some have personal experience of mental health problems, others are carers of people with mental health problems and some have experience of family members and the wider community members with mental health problems.

This presentation explores how recovery messages can be taken forward in BME communities and to promote awareness of recovery.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Pratima Pershad and Jacki Gordon - Glasgow BME recovery group (26.79 MB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Pratima Pershad and Jacki Gordon - Glasgow BME recovery group (154.77 kB)

Key supporters for this session: Rashpal Nottay, Leonard Ntaganda, Arshad Mahmood, Maysoon Sutherland, Susan Pollock, Ellen Hair, Anne Connor, and Arma Sayed.