Diversity and Personalisation Event 2010
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The Diversity and Personalisation Study Day will be looking at the important issues around diversity and personalisation.
SPN already has an established position in developing awareness and engaging different stakeholders around personalisation in mental health. SPN’s work plan sets out to ensure that the voices of people from diverse communities are heard, and to this end we are planning a study day devoted to some of the issues faced by people from black and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay and bisexual and other marginalised groups such as older people and women.
We are right at the start of the planning stage, and we are looking at sometime in February 2010. So if you want to get involved and contribute your knowledge, insight, experience and wisdom, either as a member of the steering group (which could be virtual or face to face) or in any other way, then please get in touch with us by emailing spn@scie.org.uk and saying a bit about yourself and your interest in this area.
Here are some areas to focus on.
VENUE. The first study day we organised around personalisation was held in Northampton in summer 2008 and the second national study day, in London in December 2008. Then we had a series of workshops in London over this summer, so we were thinking about possibly having an event in the north/north east in a city like Leeds, or, in the west Midlands, in Birmingham, or Bristol, the gateway to the west. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Thinking about the TITLE OF THE STUDY DAY, here are some suggestions but we’d love to hear yours!
• Personalisation for all: making personalisation meet the needs of diverse communities
• Many voices: can personalisation deliver for diverse communities?
• Personalisation: reaching the minorities other mental health initiatives haven’t reached? (note question mark!)
We also welcome any ideas about the FORMAT OF THE DAY:
Do we go for traditional plenary speakers and workshops or something like a ‘World Cafe’ style event?
Who do you think should be speakers/workshop facilitators for this event?
If you are involved in an initiative aimed at black, minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, older people or women and it has links with personalisation, do get in touch!
Meanwhile, here are some draft aims and objectives for the day, which we’d appreciate your comments on:
• To raise awareness about personalisation within diverse mental health communities including BME, LGBT, women, older people and people with physical disabilities
• To raise awareness about the concerns of marginalised communities around the personalisation agenda amongst key agencies involved in rolling out personalisation (commissioners, advocacy, NMHDU, DH)
• To highlight what already works nationally and internationally in personalisation within marginalised communities
• As a critical friend, to critique established thinking and practice around personalisation, particularly with a view to developing the voice of service users and carers from marginalised communities
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