1. A Voice for All: BAME Communities, Multiple Needs and the work of Awaaz

2. Services Culturally Specific Independent Living Support Services
Personal Budgets
BME Assertive Outreach MCN
BME Opportunity & Change
BME Towards Work
Referrals

3. Awaaz Opportunity Nottingham service
Make and maintain links with BAME led agencies, cultural and faith groups.
Provide a service that can offer appropriate responses to potential Beneficiaries’ cultural, religious, and gender needs.
Where appropriate pass individuals on to the Main Delivery Team, facilitating the transfer where necessary.
Where onward referral is not possible or appropriate, to provide a flexible and creative Beneficiary centred support service until a safe withdrawal can be facilitated.

4. Evaluation - Key Questions…
Who have Awaaz been working with?
What is the level of need?
Is this need being met?
How does our work compare with national data?
How do Awaaz work?
What are the additional barriers that BAME people face and how do Awaaz over come them?

5. Three key points:
Different BAME groups have very different experiences
Little data about multiple needs – much more about single issues: mental health, homelessness, substance misuse offending
What are multiple needs? How are they defined?

6. How do BAME people experience Multiple Needs?
The phrase BAME is too generic
Asian backgrounds are twice as likely as those who are White British to be subject to ‘stop and search’ and Black individuals are seven times more likely be subject to ‘stop and search’ (MOJ 2016).
Black people comprise 3.3% of the population of England overall that make up 11% of non priority need (mainly single people) homeless people. Whilst Asian people comprise 7.5 % of the population of England as a whole and 6% of non priority need homeless people. (HM gov, 2018)
Gypsies, Roma and Irish Travellers, comprise approximately 0.1% of the general population they are estimated to comprise 5% of the prison population. (Lammy Report, 2017)
“Alcohol-related deaths are higher among Indian men compared with the general population” (Hurcombe, Bayley and Goodman 2010).
Substances tends to be lower, different amongst ethnic groups (UK Drug Policy Commission, 2010)

7. National Data Working Age Population Hard Edges Report
Working Age Population
Hard Edges Report
Fulfilling Lives (Multiple Needs)Programme
White: British, Irish, Other
85.6 85
88.5
Asian
8.1 4
1.8
Black: British, African, Caribbean
3.4 6
4.6
Mixed Ethnicity 3
4.4

8. Who have Awaaz worked with as part of their Opportunity Nottingham contract?
Number of Beneficiaries
Per cent of Awaaz Beneficiaries
Black: British, African, Caribbean 33
42%
Asian 26
33%
White Other 4 5%
Other Ethnicities 2 3%
Mixed Ethnicity 14
18%

9. Awaaz Assertive Outreach Beneficiary Needs
Ethnicity
Number of Beneficiaries
Percentage with Need
Homeless
Offending
Substance Misuse
Mental Health
Black: British, African, Caribbean 37 63 90 97
100
Asian 29 72 83 93
White British 10 33
White Other 4 50
Gypsy Traveller 2
Other 5 80
Mixed Ethnicity/Dual Heritage 13 69 85
Overall Fulfilling Lives Multiple Needs Data

10. Awaaz Opportunity Nottingham Beneficiaries: Gender
Ethnicity
Men
Women
Black: British, African, Caribbean 28 8
Asian 19 4
White British 2
White Other 3 1
Gypsy Traveller
Other
Mixed Ethnicity/Dual Heritage 5

11. Redefining Multiple & Complex Needs
The definition of Multiple Needs is Eurocentric
Different Approach to MCN (Lankelly Chase (2016) Women and Girls Facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage)
- Defined categories experience of particular disadvantages
Risk factors high exposure factors
Social inequalities oppressions and inequalities in society
Right-based inability to exercise human rights
Capabilities limited opportunities for a good life

12. Who do Awaaz work with?

13. Holistic and Strength Based Approach
Letting the individual decide their support
Meeting the Beneficiary in a place they feel most comfortable
Having conversations rather than support sessions
Investing time.

14. AWAAZ “Voice” for ALL BME Communities Shaping Positive Futures
“ We are not hard to Reach, just easy to ignore!”

15. Delivering Culturally Specific Services
Assessments
Language Barrier
Trust/Fear
Culture/Religion – Not having to explain this
Stigma/Discrimination/Denial/Taweez/Black Magic
Turning to faith groups/Coping Strategy
Shunned by the Community

16. Thank You