Who is leading the PAST project?


Hi I’m Sondra Butterworth, BILD's Black and Minority Ethnic Communities Project Worker.

BILD have obtained funding from the Department of Health to fund this post: my job will be to gather stories from the black and minority ethnic communities around good practice in advocacy and the personalisation agenda.

We have called the project the PAST project: Personal Advocacy Story Telling. I am aiming to set up focus groups who we hope will be able to share their stories.

You can find out more by reading this Word document about the project, or look at the PowerPoint presentation version.

I will be producing training materials, and practice guidelines. I will also write two web based papers providing information which will have been been gained from the advocacy groups and from your stories.

Our main aim is to share the stories which we hope will enable Black and Minority Ethnic communities, health and social care practitioners and commissioning organisations to learn from your experiences of the advocacy.

Please visit this site regularly to see updates on our work. You can also contact me directly by email to s.butterworth@bild.org.uk or telephone BILD on 01562 723010.

Thank you.

Personalisation and BAME communities: Finding the X factor

A consultation event: Learn from the PAST, plan for the future

What is the event about?

Valuing People says that advocacy was one of the ways people with learning disabilities could get more choice and control in their lives.

A Direct Payment is money your Social Services Department can give you. It is a new way of getting the support you need. Your advocate can help you with this.

We want to find out how well this is working for people with learning disabilities from black, asian, minority and ethnic communities.


 

When and where are the events?

Birmingham: 23 March 2010
In partnership with: Christine Sholl, Dept. of Health Valuing People Now, West Midlands

Liverpool: 27 April 2010
In partnership with: Joe Monaghan, Chief Officer, CA Coalition, National Coalition of Advocacy Schemes

London: 25 May 2010
In partnership with: Christine Burke, NAGLDE


Who should attend

• People with learning disabilities
  from the BAME communities
• Carers from BAME communities
• Advocacy groups
• Health and social care
  professionals
• Partnership boards and regional
  forum members

You can download the event information and booking form, or contact our events team direct on 01562 723025.

Downloads

Download the December 2009 PAST Project Newsletter

Download 'Towards Culturally Competent Advocacy: meeting the needs of diverse communities', a report by Kate Richardson and Dr Rorie Fulton

Download the executive summary to the above report