The workshop aims to create a mentally healthy city by engaging with BAME, LGBT+, and faith communities to improve mental wellness and resilience. It focuses on understanding the stigma around mental health within these groups and exploring inclusive practices in service delivery. The findings will inform the development of the 'Creating a Mentally Healthy City Forum' and related initiatives.

1. Creating a Mentally Healthy City
Workshop
Taking an inclusive approach to Creating a Mentally
Healthy City
Elizabeth Griffiths
Assistant Director of Public Health
Elizabeth.Griffiths@birmingham.gov.uk
Wednesday 15th January 2020

2. Welcome and Introductions
Mo Phillips
Service Manager – Public Health
Birmingham City Council
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3. Setting the scene
Elizabeth Griffiths
Assistant Director – Public Health
Birmingham City Council
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4. Aim of the workshop
 This workshop will focus on ‘Taking an inclusive approach to
Creating a Mentally Healthy City’ to help us reflect on how we
can better engage and work with our BAME, LGBT+, and
Faith Group communities to improve mental wellness and
resilience, and understand the diversity within these three
communities. Also, where they interconnect and intersect in
people’s lives.
 These workshops will inform the development of the Creating
a Mentally Healthy City Forum.
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5. Learning Objectives
 To have gained a greater understanding of factors affecting the BAME and
LGBT+ communities and stigma surrounding mental health issues within
these communities
 To view your roles within your organisations through other lens and
consider how you may want to change how you work within these
communities in the future.
 What you can do to deliver better services by working with other
organisations
 Understand current service needs, policies and service development when
you consider your service design
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6. What does the data tell us?

7. Birmingham and Solihull STP Mental Health Scorecard
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PREVENT
Outcome Indicator Period
Birmingham
Value
Target /
Benchmark
Benchmark
Type
Reduce suicide by 10% by 2020/21 (5YFV)
Age standardised mortality rate from suicide and
injury of undetermined intent per 100,000
population
2016 - 18 (new
data)
8.1 9.6 England
Fewer people aged 0-25 being admitted for
deliberate self-harm
Age-standardised rate of admission for intentional
self-harm per 100,000 population for ages 10-24
2017/18 265.5 421.2 England
Fewer children and young people reporting they are
frequently bullied
Percentage of 15 year olds reporting being bullied
in past couple of months
2014/15 48.9% 55.0% England

8. Birmingham and Solihull STP Mental Health Scorecard
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RECOVER
Outcome Indicator Period
Birmingham
Value
Target /
Benchmark
Benchmark
Type
Proportion of people in contact with secondary
mental health services who are in employment
Percentage point gap between the percentage of
working age adults who are receiving secondary
mental health services and who are on the Care
Programme Approach recorded as being
employed (aged 18 to 69) and the percentage of
all respondents in the Labour Force Survey
classed as employed (aged 16 to 64)
2017/18 60.4% 68.2% England

9. What is meant by Inclusion,
Intersectionality and Mental
Health?

10. Inclusion
 Inclusion is “the action of including or of being included within
a group or structure”
It’s about feeling and knowing we can all work together on an
equal footing and be successful because of our differences.
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11. Intersectionality
Intersectionality is defined as:
“the interconnected nature of social characteristics such as race,
class, gender, religion, and sexual orientation as they apply to a
given individual or group
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12. Mental Health and Wellbeing
The World Health Organization (2005) defines mental health as “a state of
wellbeing in which the individual realises his or her own abilities, can cope
with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is
able to make a contribution to his or her community” Wellbeing has been
defined as “individuals’ perceptions of the quality of their relationships with
other people, their neighbourhoods, and their communities”
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13. How are they linked and what are the benefits?
You can tell that you’re creating an environment that will boost
mental health and wellbeing when:
 People feel they have a voice
 They can contribute to issues/concerns of importance
 Know they can shape things that matters
 Feel a sense of belonging
 Each person can be their most authentic self
 Be proud of what makes them different and unique
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14. How they work together?
 The relationship between inclusion, intersectionality and
mental health is inextricably linked.
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Inclusion
Mental
Health
Intersectionality
We must strive to understand the
intersectional qualities of our
communities and how we can begin
to assure an inclusive environment
for all.
What makes us different also brings
us together. Building our mental
health, wellbeing, and resilience.
How can we achieve this objective?

15. Governance Process
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Birmingham
Health and
Wellbeing
Board
STP
Improvement
Workstream
Mental Health
Programme
Delivery
Board
Creating a
Mentally
Healthy City
Forum
Suicide
Prevention
Working
Group

16. Workshops A, B, C
A. First Class Legacy working with local communities and
specialising in youth engagement
B. The Delicate Mind working within the Muslim community
and will focus on managing depression and other mental
health problems caused by societal issues
C. Birmingham LGBT+, the City’s leading charity advocating
for, and supporting, our lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans
communities
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17. Panel Discussion Q&A
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