Be Aware, Be Well – Migrant Mental Health Initiative

About

Be Aware, Be Well – Migrant Mental Health Initiative seeks to reduce mental health inequalities by strengthening mental health literacy, improving access to services, promoting wellbeing of migrants through community-based initiatives, and supporting the improvement of mental health services.

Activities

Support and Advocacy

Mental health capacity-building: We facilitate and provide access to evidence-based migrant mental health capacity-building programs covering mental wellbeing, recovery, suicide prevention, first-aid–type training, and supporter training. 

Pathways to Being Well resource pack: We developed the pack which includes a multilingual migrant mental health guide and a training framework for migrants and peer supporters. 

Read Empowering Migrant and Refugee Women’s Mental Health and Integration. Training Program Evaluation Reports below.

Watch the video from the launch of the ‘Pathways to Being Well: Empowering Migrant Women Mental Health – Evaluation Report’.

Connect Cafés: We organise Connect Cafés for migrants and ethnic minorities to meet, chat, provide mutual support, and connect with broader services and their communities. 

Partnerships: We partner with local initiatives.

Mental Health Service Improvement Facilitation

Research and policy: We contribute to policy forums, research initiatives, and service and advocacy advisory groups. 

Talks and presentations: We deliver presentations and share expertise on migrant mental health to support responsiveness among mental health service providers.

Migrant and Ethnic Minority Mental Health Engagement: We develop a Migrant & Ethnic Minority Mental Health Engagement Structure that involves individual and group capacity-building activities, as well as creating and expanding opportunities for mental health engagement for minorities.

Read report on Improving Mental Health Engagement for Migrant & Ethnic Minority Women below.

Watch a video: Mental Health Engagement: Migrant & Ethnic Minority Perspectives 

QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions or queries, please contact program coordinator emilia@cairde.ie 

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