Resources/Toolkits for Increasing Cultural Competency

Haref information:

• Please see our website to find out more about our Haref Network and our Haref Allies. 

• If you would like to join our Network or Allies email haref@connectedvoice.org.uk

• Sign up to our monthly Haref bulletin 

Newcastle and Gateshead Community Champions

• Gateshead Champions/MECC 

• Newcastle Community Champions

Cultural Awareness:

• Caring for multi ethnic Communities has been developed by NHS Blood and Transplant and gives details about different minority communities’ customs and cultures.

• Faiths, beliefs, cultures and communities offers an overview of how a number of different cultures and beliefs approach death, dying and bereavement, and offers some suggestions for further sources of support.

Best Practice Guides:

• Haref: Delivering health information sessions to diverse community groups: Good practice guidelines

• Mental Health: Further Resources for Practitioners: Cultural Competency - Further Resources for Practitioners

• Resources for professionals working with BAME communities from the Alzheimer's Society Read more here

Mental Health

• Haref Peer Research- Experiences and thoughts of mental health: A piece of peer research examining thoughts and perceptions of mental health in ethnically minoritised communities. Read full peer research report

Health Inequalities

• Confronting injustice: racism and the environmental emergency - Greenpeace report
   
• MBRRACE-UK Saving Lives, improving Mother’s Care MBRRACE Report 
   

• Health Inequalities in the Age of COVID-19-Towards Fairer Health for Disadvantaged Communities: Connected Voice Haref is delighted to share the findings from their 12-month research project funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration North East and North Cumbria.  The project involved 11 community partners, who live and/or work in the west end of Newcastle and the rest of the research group with staff members from Haref, Riverside Community Health Project and Newcastle University Report: Health Inequalities in the Age of COVID-19

• Connected Voice Haref is partnering with NIHR BioResource, together with community organisations across the country with one shared goal: to address health inequalities for ethnically marginalised communities by #MakingResearchInclusive. Read more

• Dementia does not discriminate: The experiences of black, Asian and minority ethnic communities - report by the House of Commons All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia (July 2013) Read more here

Supporting Refugees and Asylum-Seekers

• Migrant Help has up-to-date information and guidance on how to support refugees and asylum seekers available in 16 languages.

• City of Sanctuary Health Resources:

  • Newcastle City of Sanctuary

  • Health Stream of Sanctuary

  • City of Sanctuary Mental Health Resource Pack

• Refugee council health information videos: Videos on accessing healthcare in the UK

• Charges for NHS and Immigration Application Fees

  • Toolkit for charging regulations

  • Immigration and Nationality Fees

• Doctors of the World: Safe Surgeries Toolkit

• Information Now: Support for refugees and asylum-seekers

Safeguarding

• Cultural Competence: Practice awareness, guidance and advice in the context of safeguarding:  This document includes competencies, a risk checklist and sources of information and specialist support from Newcastle Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children's boards. 

Data Tools

Office for National Statistics (ONS links): 

• Religion, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

• Ethnic group, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

• Language, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

• 2020 Education Census

• Crime: Year Ending 31 March 2021 

• Sexual orientation, England and Wales: Census 2021

Handouts and Other Useful Information

• Diary of religious and cultural festivals
• Connected Voice Faith Handout 

Further Training

• City of Sanctuary training on asylum seekers and refugees: This is aimed at front line professionals, volunteers and anyone else wanting to get a simple overview of migration in Newcastle. Access the training here. Any problems with logging in to this training, contact Theresa Daniels from Active Inclusion 

• Show Racism the Red Card

  • to find out about training contact Show Racism the Red Card

  • Education packs

  • Downloadable resources

• English Unlocked training

  • How to work effectively with an interpreter is a half day course for staff who use public service interpreters.

  • For more information go to English Unlocked website

• Our Cultural Competency training is funded by Newcastle City Council's Public Health team and is informed by the experiences of people from local communities which have been gathered via the Haref Network. It is free for health and wellbeing practitioners delivering services in Newcastle upon Tyne who wish to improve the reach of their services with ethnically marginalised communities.