Community Development Worker for South Asian Communities

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• Community Development Worker for South Asian
  Communities
• Jazz Kainth
• Ashram Housing Association
• Nissa Ashram

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Nissa Ashram

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Nissa Ashram A brief overview

• Purpose built supported housing project.
• Single South Asian women with mental ill health.
• Aims to support to reach aspirations of living
  independently.
• 10 one bedroom, self contained, partially
  furnished flats.
• Initially used for short stay (two years).
• Vision to support and move onto independent
  living.

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Nissa Ashrammission statement

• To raise awareness and promote the welfare of
  South Asian women with mental ill health and to
  support their aspiration of independent living in
  the communities of their choice.

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Management and staffof Nissa Ashram
Scheme manager Caron Thompson  
Senior support worker Harpreet Kaur
Community development worker Jasvinder Kainth
Support Worker F/T
Support Worker F/T
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Support Worker P/T
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Service user involvement

• Planning of their support.
• Multi disciplinary meetings.
• Service reviews.
• Key performance criteria.
• Tenants meetings.
• Shaping policies and procedures.
• Recruitment and selection of new staff.
• Resident involvement meeting for Ashram.
• House rules.
• Choice of key worker.
• Survey and questionnaires.
• Service user guide/welcome pack.
• Nissa newsletter.

• Consultations include
• Change of shift patterns.
• Security gates.
• Activities/celebrations.
• Nissa Ashram new logo.
• Documents used on the scheme.
• Translation of documents.

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Referring process
REFERRAL APPLICATION RECEIVED, SOCIAL AND MEDICAL
REPORT MUST BE INCLUDED
ALLOCATION PANEL HAS BEEN PUT TOGETHER TO ASSESS
EACH APPLICATION RECEIVED
ASSESSMENT DATE SET WITHIN TWO WEEKS
ASSESSMENT TAKES PLACE FIND OUT SUPPORT NEEDS
APPLICANT REFERRER HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK
QUESTIONS DURING ASSESSMENT
AFTER ASSESSMENT STAFF HAVE ALLOCATION MEETING TO
MAKE DECISION
APPLICANT REFERRER NOTIFIED OF DECISION WITHIN
TWO WEEKS AFTER ASSESSMENT
DEPENDING ON OUTCOME OF ALLOCATION MEETING ACTION
WILL BE TAKEN FROM HERE
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CDW for South Asian Communities

• Funded through the HoBtPCT
• Work with the South Asian communities within the
  Heart of Birmingham
• Based at Nissa Ashram part of Ashram Housing
  Association
• The Department of Health has set a target of
  employing 500 CDW nationally, (54 regional and 6
  Local) in 2007 following recommendations as set
  out in the following documents
• Delivering Race Equality A framework for Action
  Mental Health Services October 2003
• Inside Outside Improving Mental Health Services
  for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in
  England Jan 2004 (NIMHE)
• Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care
  and the governments response to the independent
  inquiry into the death of David Bennett An
  Action Plan for Reform inside and outside survey
• Community Development Workers for Black and
  Minority ethnic Communities Dec 2004 (DoH)

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Model of care within HoB

• The HoBtPCT has commissioned 5 CDWs to work
  within the heart of Birmingham and the areas
  covered are
• Chinese Communities CDW
• Irish Communities CDW
• South Asian Communities CDW
• Afro Caribbean Men CDW
• Muslim Men CDW

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Delivering Race EqualitysThree building blocks

• More appropriate and responsive services
• Develop organisations and the workforce
• Improve clinical services
• Improve services for specific groups
• Community engagement
• Engage communities in planning services
• Supported by 500 new Cdws
• Better information
• Improved monitoring of ethnicity
• Better dissemination of information and good
  practice
• Improved knowledge about effective services

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Role of CDW
Community Development Worker for Black and
Minority Ethnic Communities - DoH
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Role of Community Development Worker for Nissa
Ashram

• Raise awareness about mental health needs within
  the South Asian community

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Aims Objectives

• Working in partnership with both primary and
  secondary mental health service, particularly
  working with care co-ordinators in line with care
  programme approach.
• Working to ensure full participation and greater
  ownership in the development of effective health
  and social care with the targeted communities.
• Establishing direct links with local ward forums
  and profiling the needs with mental health from
  South Asian ethnic minority communities.
• Providing a culturally sensitive service by
  giving practical information and advice to these
  communities which may include signposting.

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Aims ObjectivesContinued

• Supporting South Asian women to connect with
  local communities.
• Fostering links between hard to reach
  communities, GP practices and mental health
  services.
• Building on the inherent strengths and capacity
  of minority ethnic groups in dealing with mental
  health issues within the communities themselves.
• Developing initiatives to raise awareness amongst
  hidden cases of mental ill health.
• Working with partner agencies including statutory
  sector, community groups, faith organisations,
  voluntary organisation and public and patient
  forums.

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Heart of Birmingham SouthAsian Communities Forum

• The partnership of mental health professionals,
  service users, carers, community based
  organisations has been bought together to address
  the needs of South Asian communities in the Heart
  of Birmingham area in relation to mental ill
  health.

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Aims Objectives

• Look to identify new initiatives to deliver
  services in accordance to the needs of South
  Asian communities in relation to mental health.
• The forum will work to develop services that are
  sensitive to the cultural, psychological and
  emotional needs of people within South Asian
  communities.
• Empowering individuals affected by mental ill
  health, including service users, carers and
  family members.
• Empowering South Asian communities to take
  ownership of their own well being.
• The forum will work in partnership to positively
  promote mental health.
• The forum will work in partnership with the
  HoBtPCT and other statutory organisation to
  promote mental health.

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Contacts details

• Community Development Worker Jazz Kainth
• Address 66a Fernley Road
• Sparkhill
• Birmingham
• B11 3NP
• Telephone number 0121 772 3356
• Fax number 0121 772 3351
• Mobile number 07917 437 270
• E-mail address jasvinderk_at_ashramha.org.uk
• Ashram Housing Association 0121 764 3800
• Accord Housing Association 0121 500 2300