This year we will be celebrating Race Equality Week (3 to 7 February) by hosting a series of online events, which will be recorded and open to all colleagues.
We have planned sessions throughout the month as well, which will include:
- Cultural Awareness
- Islamophobia Awareness
- Reducing Ethnicity Health Inequalities in Mental Health Service -Perinatal Team
- Why Racisms Persists
- How to Use Your Privilege and Power to Drive Positive Change
During the sessions, we will focus on knowledge building, showcasing good practice, sharing updates, reflections and future plans on our journey towards becoming an actively anti-racist organisation. Book in section 9 of the prospectus.
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February |
3 |
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Race Equality Month begins |
Opening video and email to all staff from TB |
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3 |
9.30am to 12.30pm |
Cultural Awareness |
In partnership with our Multi Ethnic Colleagues Network we will be delivering a session that raises awareness and celebrates a variety of different cultures |
Meeting ID: 338 557 292 484 Passcode: vN3nS7fH
Sign up via the prospectus - Section 9 Events Learning and Development Prospectus - Course |
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4 |
1 to 3pm Teams |
Islamophobia Awareness session |
In collaboration with some of our colleagues we will be delivering an Islamophobia awareness which will cover, the history of Islam, myths about Islam, what Islamophobia is and how we can challenge it |
Meeting ID: 389 606 171 727 Passcode: zi3sEw
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6 |
10am-11am |
Clinical Showcase – Reducing Ethnicity Health Inequalities in Mental Health Service -Perinatal Team |
The perinatal team joined us last Race Equality Week to share the work they had done around reducing ethnicity health inequalities. This year they are going to give us an update on the project including the findings of their evaluation and the impact of the work done. For more information about the project please see the information below:
The REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) workstream is part of the health inequalities work programme in Cheshire and Mersey Specialist Perinatal and Maternal Mental Health Service. It aims to increase access to the service for families from minoritised backgrounds by 1) working with community groups and those from minoritised backgrounds to learn from their experiences, build trust and shared understanding of need; and 2) working with staff within the service to understand the barriers to thinking and talking about race and culture, and taking steps to improve data monitoring in order to effectively shape clinical service delivery in response to local population need. This session will focus on sharing the REACH outputs including Place Based Report model and the impact this has had within their service |
Meeting ID: 374 978 802 594 Passcode: uM7mN2pQ
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6 |
9.30am-4pm |
Event: Celebrating Experts in Our Midst, Knowledge Acquired Globally and Applied Locally |
We are celebrating the experts in our midst in collaboration Global Health Partnerships (formerly THET). Mersey Care will be updating people on their EDI journey so far and informing people about the research opportunities and current learning from global health development and how this is being applied at Mersey Care. Global Health Partnerships will hold a panel to update on the Mersey Care / Uganda diaspora association. The event will take place on Thursday 6 February 2025, 9.30am-4pm at The Village Hotel. Places are limited and will be first come first served on completion of sign up form. |
Sign up using this form https://forms.office.com/e/4rksPfJEfk |
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11 |
9.30am-12.30pm |
Why racism persists? |
This session will look at the different types of racism and how racism is maintained, through understanding this we can then learn put actions in place to challenge this |
Meeting ID: 324 560 526 08 Passcode: ubpXyW
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27 |
10-11.30am |
Privilege - How to use your privilege and or power to drive positive change |
This session will look at intersectionality, examine privilege and marginalisation and look at how we can use any privilege or power we have to drive change. |
Meeting ID: 386 474 586 370 Passcode: Rz2E4kX3
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March |
13 March |
12pm-1.30-m |
External Webinar: Big journeys begin with small steps: practical approaches to reducing ethnicity health inequalities in mental health services
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This webinar will provide an overview of the work of the Cheshire and Merseyside Specialist Perinatal Service to increase inclusivity, responsiveness and access to the service for women and families from minoritised backgrounds. Drawing on systemic theory and practice, this webinar will promote reflection on practical small changes that mental health services can implement to inspire big differences in NHS services structures and practices
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Sign up online: https://forms.office.com/e/SmidwAxCPF
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