The Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum (MRCF) has received funding from Capital Volunteering to set up and deliver and exciting new mentoring project. MRCF will provide a mentoring scheme for forced migrants who are using statutory mental health services. Mentors will be recruited from the MRCF Refugee Doctors Programme. For more information please contact David Palmer, Deputy Director, MRCF or follow this link.
CSIP South East and South of England Refugee and Asylum Seeker Consortium (SERASC) have now published their report "Mental Health, Destitution & Asylum Seekers: A Study of Destitute Asylum Seekers in the dispersal areas of the South East of England"
Download copy here:
A CD Rom has also been devised from the report and is available from Carolyn Kehoe South East Development Centre on 01256 376 394
The Refugee Council Health report published two weeks ago "First Do No Harm", denying healthcare to people whose asylum claims have failed, can be viewed here
They also have two conferences coming up: "Safe from Harm"? Health and social care for vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers. These events will take place in London on 1st November and in York on 7th November. For more information follow this link
Fifty asylum seekers describe their life in a report published April 2006.
The Migrants Resource Centre Seeking Asylum report on the living conditions of asylum seekers in London is available from the following link: Seeking Asylum. For more information on either this report or the Refugee Media Action Group please contact Nazek@migrants.org.uk
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