World Mental Health day

Today is World Mental Health day, find out more about the importance of having more black practicioners in mental health services and how race forms part of the history of mental health.

Garrick Prayogg is from Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and is also a public governor for Mersey Care in the video below he talks about the limited availability of black practitioners in mental health services. The video has a very local focus and you can find out more about racism and mental health.

Also, this blog piece from Mind explains how race forms part of the history of mental health. Head of Equality Improvement at Mind, Marcel Vige, explains how its dark past still has ramifications for people’s outcomes and treatment today, and what needs to happen to create effective change.

 

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