The Delivering Race Equality in Mental Healthcare Programme was formed in 2005. This innovative programme is a five year plan established to improve access, outcomes and experiences for people with mental health needs. It is designed to tackle mental health inequalities for all people of Black and Minority Ethnic origin, including people of Irish or Mediterranean origin and East European migrants, whereby people from BME communities feel more able to access and have improved confidence in mental health services.
The DRE programme aims to ensure that it is working towards a position whereby people from BME communities feel more able to access and have improved confidence in mental health services.
We work in partnership with service users and carers; clinicians and managers and 3rd sector agencies and groups. We aim to incorporate a broader equalities context; and to disseminate learning and information from the programme. These are in effect, our ‘partnerships for success' a process, which means that diverse stakeholders come to the table and work together to achieve real change.
The National DRE Conference took place in March 2009. Click here to read the highlights of the day, view pictures and see details of our plans for 2010
Use the menu on the left hand side to view examples of the work carried out within the programme.