Social Recovery - Leeds Launch Event

What promotes social recovery for

African and Caribbean men?

Socially-orientated approaches to recovery for African and Caribbean men report launch event

Thursday 14th March 2019

The Rose Bowl, Room 263, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds LS1 3HE

Despite several initiatives, notably the ‘Delivering Race Equality’ national policy (DH 2005)1, designed to reduce persistent racial disparities in mental health services, people from African and Caribbean, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities continue to have poorer experiences and outcomes. This disparity is most significant for African and Caribbean men.

This event will draw together findings from a National Institute of Health Research, School for Social Care Research Project that was conducted in Leeds and London by Royal Holloway University and by Leeds Beckett University between 2016 and 2018. The project explored the extent to which a socially-orientated approach to recovery might better support the mental health of African and Caribbean men and what this support might look like.

African and Caribbean men with experience of mental health challenges, their supporters/family-carers, and non-statutory and non-statutory service providers shared their stories of mental health recovery. Safe spaces, agency, identity, and relationships emerged as fundamental to recovery for these men. Recovery is about men (re)gaining capability across these four domains.

This event will consider the significance of ethnicity, gender, culture, identity, and agency to mental health recovery. The focus is on the experiences of African and Caribbean men. The session will interrogate the value of socially-constructed approaches to recovery that challenge traditional service hierarchies.

This event will provide a forum to explore the key findings of the research and discuss what this means for policy and practice.

The powerlessness often experienced by African and Caribbean men in traditional service delivery will be portrayed in a mini-play, ‘Take Control’, written and performed by Devon Marston. Devon is a founding member of the Sound Minds music and theatre group, an expert-by-experience, and advisor to the research project. The play illuminates the issues identified in the research and acts as a powerful catalyst for reflection and discussion.

The event is aimed at stakeholders from statutory health organisations, local authorities, voluntary and community sector organisations, academics, and service users and their family/carers.

The schedule for the event is:

- 10:30am - 11:00am – Arrival refreshments

- 11:00am - 12:00pm – Presentation of the research findings + questions

- 12:00pm - 1:00pm – Lunch and networking

- 1:00pm - 2:00pm – ‘Take Control’ play + questions

- 2:00pm - 3:00pm – Group discussion

No, the event is free to attend.

Travel expenses can be reimbursed for those that are unwaged.

In addition, we also have up to 10 bursaries of £60 for those that are unwaged to attend the event.

How do I get to the venue?

• The Rose Bowl

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• The Rose Bowl Car Park

Please ask in advance for a parking permit for the day

• Bus

First Buses 1, 6, 28 and 97 all stop on the road outside Leeds Beckett University. It is also possible to take a bus to The Headrow and walk the short distance up to the University.

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