Health Engagement with BME Communities in Brighton & Hove The - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Health Engagement with BME Communities in Brighton & Hove

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• Work together to tackle local issues
• Develop skills within the communities where we work
• Support & develop community groups
• Assist community groups to respond to need

BME Engagement

• Supporting BME people to get involved in the ways that they want to
• Helping BME people to link with existing or set up new community groups /

activities

• Supporting groups to develop their skills, confidence and independence
• Identifying BME community learning needs
• Engaging more isolated people
• Influencing BHCC and health structures
• Working together to improve communications

Hangleton & Knoll Project

CCG Engagement

• Working with men and young people – building on existing

partnership with HKMCWG

• Life in the UK course
• Family trips – building links
• Black History Month

BME Health Engagement

How we engage: Door knocking Focus groups Attending Events Working with community groups Working with partner organisations Organising and supporting community events Contacting people directly in the community at various shops, takeaways, hair salons, restaurants etc. to participate in giving feedback

BME Health Engagement

Where we engage:

community centers faith meeting places children's centres community events community groups

BME Health Engagement

Challenges:

• Brighton is a small city so BME communities are not as big as elsewhere.
• We have a very mixed BME population making it more challenging to

identify and address the needs of individual communities.

• Different communities can have distinct issues so there’s no one ‘BME’

picture

• The diverse groups we work with include- Chinese Elders group,

Bangladeshi women's group, Oromo community group, Anatolian group, Euromernet and many others.

The Real Picture

Age

Language

Cultural identity Religion

Ethnicity