1. Fanon Care
Supporting African and Caribbean
people with Mental Health needs

2. Why the need to provide
specialist care ?
 African-Caribbean people and in
particular Black people born in Britain are
ten times more likely to be given a
diagnosis of schizophrenia.
 Black men were more likely than white
people to receive a case note diagnosis of
schizophrenia or drug-induced psychosis

3.  Black people are more likely to be assessed as
violent, to be seen by junior staff and be given
‘physical’ treatments.
 Black people are much more likely to access the
psychiatric services under sections of the Mental
Health Act 1983 and are more likely to be
transferred from prisons into psychiatry than
their white counterparts.

4.  African-Caribbeans are more likely to be
detained in locked psychiatric wards and
most likely to be treated with higher
dosages of medication.
 Black people are more likely to be treated
with drugs and ECT and less likely to
receive counselling or psychotherapy.

5. Fanon Care
“culturally sensitive services in a
community setting”
 Individual, Family, Community
 Black on Black
 From an African / Caribbean
Worldview

6. Supporting the whole person
 Social
 Physical
needs
needs
 Emotional
needs
 Spiritual needs  Racial Identity

7. The services we provide
 Day Centre
 Fanon House (20 beds)
 Women only home (6 beds)
 Floating support service

8. Day Centre
 a programme of activities
 social interaction with others
 caribbean restaurant
 a member led meeting

9. Fanon House
 our service that contains clusters of 3
room flats
 providing 24hr support from a
committed and experienced team
 focus on rehabilitation and the re-
learning of daily living skills’

10. Women only Hostel
 6 individual rooms sharing facilities
 Focus on women with a history of
homelessness
 focus on proving low level support in
readiness for move on into own
accommodation

11. Tenancy sustainment service
 support vulnerable people
 focus on help to keep home
 Provide 4 hrs of direct contact per
week

12. Plans for the Future
‘Relocate to purpose built building in Railton
Road’
 Women only drop in space
 Advice and Information service
 Assertive outreach workers
 Primary health care clinics by visiting
professionals
 Café run by Scotch Bonnet catering