AWETU's AGM


AWETU Black and Minority Ethnic Mental  Health Group will be hosting their
Annual General Meeting Friday 31 January 2003, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm at
Butetown History and Arts Centre (5 Dock Chambers, Bute Street, Cardiff).

PROGRAMME

10:3O am - Registration (tea and coffee)
11:00 - Chair's Welcome
11:05 - Apologies
11:10 - Presentation of Annual Report by the Chair
11:15 -  Propose appointment of Auditors
11:25 - Project Manager's Report
11:45 - Nomination and Election of Officers and Committee Members

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:15: Guest Speaker - Steve Maddern
Steve Maddern is a psychiatric nurse, working with refugees and asylum
seekers. Accurate data on ethnic minority patients in mental health settings
is scarce and Steve Maddern's research  includes ethnic monitoring and the
need for  more effective data collection to improve care planning and
equity.  To view BE4 project's  spotlight article of the month  Monitoring
Ethnicity. The value of data collection in mental health by Steve Maddern go
to: http://www.be4researchproject.org.uk/spotlightjanuary2003.htm.  This
article was taken from Nursing Management, Vol 8. No 5 (September 2001)
pp.29 -33).


1:45 - Guest Speaker - David Robertson
David Robertson is a  research associate at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental
Health (SCMH)  He  joined the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (SCMH) in
1995, from the NHS Executive, Department of Health (DoH) where I he worked
as a health policy and research specialist. One of his key  responsibilities
at the SCMH has been to develop new projects looking at the mental health
needs of Black and minority ethnic groups. He is one of the authors of the
'Breaking the Circles of  Fear' report which examines the problematic
relationship between African and Caribbean communities and mental health
services and proposed recommendations for  change.  This is the only study
of its scale to be conducted in the UK, and is unique in suggesting how the
Black community and mental health services can work together to improve
services. David Robertson is a Non-Executive Director of Central and North
West London Mental  Health NHS Trust.  He has published articles on
ethnicity and mental health in Community Care and Open Mind. and has a
special interest in the Somali Refugee Community.


2:15 - Question time
3:00 - Close


Please note: AWETU website will be launched at the AGM, although you may
view the 'work in progress' now at: http://www.awetu.org.uk