What is Mind doing?
Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. We work to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress by:
- advancing the views, needs and ambitions of people with mental health problems
- challenging discrimination and promoting inclusion
- influencing policy through campaigning and education
- inspiring the development of quality services which reflect expressed need and diversity
- achieving equal rights through campaigning and education.
What is Mind doing?
Through Diverse Minds, our unit dedicated to working on these issues, Mind is working make change happen. For example, Mind is working with:
service users who are represented on our Advisory Panel and who contact us to find out about services and tell us about problems
more than 210 local Mind associations around the country to develop local services which work for people from Black and minority ethnic communities
the Commission for Racial Equality to develop a strategy to help the NHS implement its duties under the amended Race Relations Act 2000
NIMHE (National Institute for Mental Heath in England) which is developing a long term strategy to transform mental health services for people from Black and minority ethnic communities
Black voluntary sector organisations to help them understand how they need to work with the local health economy to benefit service users most
practitioners and frontline workers to showcase the wealth of ideas, knowledge and expertise which exists in the mental health field and in our communities.
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