Projects
This section offers full details of all our current services
Work with Young People
Young Black Peerspectives About the YBP project and its work with young BME people aged 11-25 using peer education techniques to raise awareness around issues that affect their lives, including health
Work with Refugee and Asylum Seekers:
Routes Project Routes Project supports families with children aged 5-13 newly arrived in the UK and living in Manchester
Sahara Project Sahara Project offers support to refugees and asylum seekers with mental health concerns, signposting users to appropriate services
Work with HIV & Sexual Health:
African AIDS Helpline The AAH provides free, confidential and multilingual support to Africans living in the UK. The service offers six African (and all operators are African themselves.
Arise HIV Support Project Arise HIV Support Project provides advice and welfare support to individuals and families from Black and Minority Ethnic communities living in Greater Manchester affected by or living with HIV/AIDS.
Leeds Skyline Project The Leeds Support and Prevention Service provides support for all people, families and carers living in Leeds who are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS.
Work with Drugs & Race:
Manchester Drugs and Race Unit MDRU exists to address inequalities in service provision and policy for drug users and their families from BME communities.
Reaching Out Project Reaching Out is a groundbreaking project providing training, support and information on drugs and alcohol to Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in Manchester
Work with Forums:
Manchester Race and Health Forum MRHF aims to address health inequalities in service provision and policy in Manchester, through the mechanism of forums whose membership is representative of the diverse communities in the city
Patient and Public Involvement Forums Black Health Agency administers and manages 18 PPI forums in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. PPI forums are a statutory mechanism to allow the general public to assess and comment on local health statutory services.
African Womens Health Forum The AWHF provides an opportunity for African women living in Manchester to raise awareness and develop resources concerning the particular health issues pertaining to their own community
African Men's Health Initiative The AMHI provides a forum for African men living in Manchester to raise awareness of key health issues both within their own community and wider society. It also exists to offer support to African men around health.
Work with Communities:
Project Jeena and Jeena Health Project The projects work with South Asian women in Salford and Trafford around health and well being.
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