This paper argues that services should partner with refugee communities to remove barriers to mental health care, rather than asking why refugees do not use services.
Toolkit category: Research article
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Beyond translation: Engaging with culturally and linguistically diverse consumers
This Australian study looked at how culturally and linguistically diverse patients engage with health care and found the barriers go well beyond language and interpreters.
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Photovoice as a promising public engagement approach: capturing and communicating ethnic minority people’s lived experiences of severe mental illness and its treatment
This UK study used photography and storytelling (photovoice) to capture ethnic minority people’s experiences of severe mental illness and its treatment.
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How do health services engage culturally and linguistically diverse consumers? An analysis of consumer engagement frameworks in Australia
This study reviewed 11 Australian consumer engagement frameworks and found most focus on language rather than culturally responsive service design.
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Using co-production within mental health training when working with refugee or migrant community groups
This article looks at using co-production, where community members help design and deliver the work, in mental health training with refugee and migrant groups.
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A scoping review of the use of co-design methods with culturally and linguistically diverse communities to improve or adapt mental health services
This review looked at how co-design methods have been used with culturally and linguistically diverse communities to improve or adapt mental health services.
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Co-production as an approach to developing stakeholder partnerships to reduce mental health inequalities: an evaluation of a pilot service
This UK study evaluated a pilot mental health service for Black and minority ethnic communities in London that was designed together with community groups, patients and health teams.
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Optimising co-design with ethnic minority consumers
This paper gives practical guidance on including ethnic minority consumers in co-design to improve health services, including planning, resources and inclusive participation.
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The capacity-building role of community liaison workers with refugee communities in Victoria, Australia
This study looked at the Community Liaison Worker role at Foundation House and how these workers help build trauma-informed capacity in refugee communities.
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Developmental Psychopathology and Ethnicity I: The Young Adulthood Assessment of the Boricua Youth Study
This study describes the young adult follow-up of the Boricua Youth Study, which has tracked about 2,000 Puerto Rican young people in New York and Puerto Rico since childhood.