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Department of Health and the Refugee Council

Caring for Dispersed Asylum Seekers: A Resource Pack

2003

This resource pack developed by the Department of Health and the Refugee Council is aimed at health professionals and service providers working with asylum seekers. It provides information on healthcare entitlements, guidelines and policy, mental health policy and NASS support arrangements. It also contains a number of examples of good practice.

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Refugee Action Projects

Refugee Action has a number of independently funded projects that meet the specific needs (including mental health) of refugees and asylum seekers. Site contains lists of projects and contacts.

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Well-Being Project

The project was set up because refugees can be more vulnerable to developing mental health problems, especially anxiety or depression; refugees are also vulnerable to developing mental health problems because of the huge challenge of adjusting to a whole new way of life, away from everything that is familiar. The well-being project is set up to help isolated refugees and asylum seekers develop a positive sense of well-being despite all of this (Manchester based).

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Horn of Africa Community Group

Aim: To advocate for better health, welfare and social care provision includes Mental Health Project that helps those suffering from depression, panic disorders, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bereavement grief stress and youth behavioural problems.

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Integration Activity:

Mosaic Centre for Refugees

Includes: a report of research on mental health for Bosnians, casework, counselling and advice work for refugees on issues such as: health, housing, immigration, education;- do not speak English;- practical support; - mental health project;- food project;- youth group doing: drawing, painting, drama, etc.

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Current and Recently Completed Research Projects

Ken Miller:

Projects include: Traumatic Grief Among Bosnian Refugees; The Relative Contribution of War Experiences and Exile-related Stressors to Levels of Distress Among Bosnian Refugees; Distress and Coping Among Bosnian Refugees;Interpreting in Refugee Mental Health Settings; Growing up in Exile: A Narrative Study of Young Adult Children of Refugees; From Clinic to Community: Ecological Approaches to Refugee Mental Health

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Cloth of Gold Creative Collaboration: Refugee Projects:

Westminster Refugee Project

Includes: a visual arts project (ran June-December 2000) working with refugee children and young people in primary, secondary and special education plus a refugee artist training project in collaboration with the Grand Union Orchestra. Funded by the London Arts Board and Islington Education Department, the project commenced in February 2000.

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The Refugee Working Group

The Refugee Working Group is chaired by Canada and works primarily with humanitarian questions such as family reunification, employment, health, welfare, social and economic infrastructure, and also databases, which is the responsibility of Norway. Also lists details of current projects.

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Nottingham City PCT:

Nottingham Health Action Zone

Evaluated project: assesses and makes recommendations on access to all health services including mental health; interpreters and their skills and needs; identifying mental health need of asylum seekers.

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Reuters Foundation

Visual arts give refugees emotional sustenance.

Amina Tirana, Nov-05

Article: includes discussion on health programmes for refugees that increasingly provide therapy for acute mental illness and trauma in children, for instance through visual arts. Discusses short and long term implications and the importance of shared experience.

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