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Supporting BME people
who live in homes..
Cashain David
Ujima Housing Group
Starting points…
♦ When delivering support, being black is
 the both most important and most
 unimportant thing at the same time

♦ In the ‘support industry’ we have been
 pre-occupied with providing ‘supported
 housing’ rather than enabling people to
 create and live in ‘homes’ and become
 part of communities
It’s about people and making
a difference..
A focus on the Causes..
♦ Exclusion from education,
♦ Financial hardship/poverty
♦ Unemployment
♦ Poor self image
♦ Social isolation and skills, information,
  valued relationships,
♦ Experience of ‘care’ system
♦ Family conflicts / poor parenting
Critical Questions
♦ What are you doing to prevent family
  breakdown ?
♦ How are you responding to exclusions
  from schools ?
♦ How are you preventing substance
  use/abuse ?
♦ How do you help service users
  (reluctant customers) find and maintain
  relationships ?
How do we support people?
♦ somewhere to live
♦ emotional problems
♦ getting through a crisis
♦ a full life during the day
♦ making and keeping friendships
more…
♦ getting and holding down a job
♦ getting a reasonable income
♦ Someone to speak on their behalf
♦ learning new skills
Quality Assessment Framework
(QAF) C1.5 Fair Access, diversity
and inclusion
♦ A focus on commitment to principles of
  equality of opportunity
♦ Respecting difference
♦ Involving users



How does this framework recognise those who
             work with ‘sameness’
UJIMA's added value…
♦ Help to make/keep contact with people
  from their own background
♦ Opportunities to explore who they are
  racially and culturally
♦ Multi-lingual staff to explore ‘language
  codes’
♦ Knowledge of patterns of expression
♦ Commitment to development of the
  Black ‘community’
On being Black…
♦ Not everyone knows that they are black,
 some people discover it…
Dr William Cross
♦ A clinical psychologist practicing in the
  USA
♦ Aim – to explain the need for
  psychological liberation under
  conditions of oppression

♦ Central issues is IDENTITY and
  TRANSITION
Published..
♦ Negro-to-Black conversion. 1971
♦ Models of Nigrescence. 1980
  (Nigrescence – from the French ‘the process of becoming
  Black’)
♦ Shades of Black. 1991


♦ His work has been modified and adapted to
  the British context by Dr June Farrell
Development of identity

♦ AUTOMATIC           ♦ DISCOVERY
  – ‘socialisation’     – ‘encounter’
  – Early childhood     – ‘the process of
  – Adolescence           becoming black’
  – adulthood           – ‘nigrescence’
Stages in Black identity
development
♦ Pre-Encounter - Identifies with White culture, rejects
  or denies membership in Black culture.

♦ Encounter - Rejects previous identification with
  White culture, seeks identification with Black culture.

♦ Immersion/Emersion - Completely identifies with
  Black culture and denigrates White culture.

♦ Integration/Commitment - Internalizes Black
  culture, transcends racism, fights general cultural
  oppression.
A look at racial identity…why?
♦ Gives a framework for understanding of
  responses and presentations
♦ Acknowledges the impact of racism and
  discrimination on choices
♦ Help referrers to make more appropriate
  referrals to services
♦ Assists commissioners to understand and
  value of a wide spectrum of services
In a word…

♦ Some black people use our services
 because we are Black like them, whilst
 others in our communities do not use
 our services because we are Black’
Investing in the community

‘Places full of strangers are inevitably felt
        to be places full of dangers’

       Gerald Lemos – Steadying the ladder
The Ujima approach

           New Mission

To Engage, Enable & Enrich our BME
            communities
♦ Engage – with young people through
  earlier interventions
♦ Enable – adults to have the means of
  improving their life chances and making
  better use of their
♦ Enrich – the lives of older people
  through a sensitive approach to their
  care and providing valued roles within
  the ‘Ujima community’
Supported living flat, Franz Fanon House
Supported living flat, Franz Fanon House
Supported living flat, Franz Fanon House
‘Creating a home of my own’
Supported living flat, Franz Fanon House
‘Creating a home of my own’
Supported living flat, Franz Fanon House

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Supporting bme people who live in homes

  • 1. Supporting BME people who live in homes.. Cashain David Ujima Housing Group
  • 2. Starting points… ♦ When delivering support, being black is the both most important and most unimportant thing at the same time ♦ In the ‘support industry’ we have been pre-occupied with providing ‘supported housing’ rather than enabling people to create and live in ‘homes’ and become part of communities
  • 3. It’s about people and making a difference..
  • 4. A focus on the Causes.. ♦ Exclusion from education, ♦ Financial hardship/poverty ♦ Unemployment ♦ Poor self image ♦ Social isolation and skills, information, valued relationships, ♦ Experience of ‘care’ system ♦ Family conflicts / poor parenting
  • 5. Critical Questions ♦ What are you doing to prevent family breakdown ? ♦ How are you responding to exclusions from schools ? ♦ How are you preventing substance use/abuse ? ♦ How do you help service users (reluctant customers) find and maintain relationships ?
  • 6. How do we support people? ♦ somewhere to live ♦ emotional problems ♦ getting through a crisis ♦ a full life during the day ♦ making and keeping friendships
  • 7. more… ♦ getting and holding down a job ♦ getting a reasonable income ♦ Someone to speak on their behalf ♦ learning new skills
  • 8. Quality Assessment Framework (QAF) C1.5 Fair Access, diversity and inclusion ♦ A focus on commitment to principles of equality of opportunity ♦ Respecting difference ♦ Involving users How does this framework recognise those who work with ‘sameness’
  • 9. UJIMA's added value… ♦ Help to make/keep contact with people from their own background ♦ Opportunities to explore who they are racially and culturally ♦ Multi-lingual staff to explore ‘language codes’ ♦ Knowledge of patterns of expression ♦ Commitment to development of the Black ‘community’
  • 10. On being Black… ♦ Not everyone knows that they are black, some people discover it…
  • 11. Dr William Cross ♦ A clinical psychologist practicing in the USA ♦ Aim – to explain the need for psychological liberation under conditions of oppression ♦ Central issues is IDENTITY and TRANSITION
  • 12. Published.. ♦ Negro-to-Black conversion. 1971 ♦ Models of Nigrescence. 1980 (Nigrescence – from the French ‘the process of becoming Black’) ♦ Shades of Black. 1991 ♦ His work has been modified and adapted to the British context by Dr June Farrell
  • 13. Development of identity ♦ AUTOMATIC ♦ DISCOVERY – ‘socialisation’ – ‘encounter’ – Early childhood – ‘the process of – Adolescence becoming black’ – adulthood – ‘nigrescence’
  • 14. Stages in Black identity development ♦ Pre-Encounter - Identifies with White culture, rejects or denies membership in Black culture. ♦ Encounter - Rejects previous identification with White culture, seeks identification with Black culture. ♦ Immersion/Emersion - Completely identifies with Black culture and denigrates White culture. ♦ Integration/Commitment - Internalizes Black culture, transcends racism, fights general cultural oppression.
  • 15. A look at racial identity…why? ♦ Gives a framework for understanding of responses and presentations ♦ Acknowledges the impact of racism and discrimination on choices ♦ Help referrers to make more appropriate referrals to services ♦ Assists commissioners to understand and value of a wide spectrum of services
  • 16. In a word… ♦ Some black people use our services because we are Black like them, whilst others in our communities do not use our services because we are Black’
  • 17. Investing in the community ‘Places full of strangers are inevitably felt to be places full of dangers’ Gerald Lemos – Steadying the ladder
  • 18. The Ujima approach New Mission To Engage, Enable & Enrich our BME communities
  • 19. ♦ Engage – with young people through earlier interventions ♦ Enable – adults to have the means of improving their life chances and making better use of their ♦ Enrich – the lives of older people through a sensitive approach to their care and providing valued roles within the ‘Ujima community’
  • 20. Supported living flat, Franz Fanon House
  • 21. Supported living flat, Franz Fanon House
  • 22. Supported living flat, Franz Fanon House
  • 23. ‘Creating a home of my own’ Supported living flat, Franz Fanon House
  • 24. ‘Creating a home of my own’ Supported living flat, Franz Fanon House

Notas do Editor

  1. I have been asked to present some ideas and examples on the issues of Black people and homelessness. But in order to do this, I will take a little time to set the context of the dynamics of homelessness and becoming vulnerable that are specific to members of the black community and then outline how this steers an appropriate response to this.
  2. To coin a phrase, ‘providing support is not a black and white issue’ Nor is it simply about keeping people out of trouble and off the streets. I can illustrate this with two statements;
  3. The real challenge is to affect the causes of vulnerability and disadvantage. And for black people, to respond to the additional complexities the emerge when race is dimension..
  4. For those of you who are familiar with Supporting People… QAF C1.5 on Fair access presents specific services like the ones we run in Ujima (described as Black on Black) with a dilemma…. The general discourse around fair access, diversity and inclusion is a discussion about cross cultural practice
  5. A truism, but a need to incorporate this into service range, and design… To illustrate I will share a model which can give insight into this dynamic relationship..
  6. In order for us to move away from responding to impacting, Ujima is changing it’s organisation to meet this new challenge.
  7. Engage – Mentoring schemes, Foundation schools, partnerships with local schools to provide placement opportunities for excluded students. Enable – through our social enterprise business we are putting our money to work in providing opportunities for ‘real jobs’ and ‘training experiences that improve employability’ For example start up business units, accredited training, construction/maintenance jobs, Community Banks Enrich – older people have lifetimes worth of knowledge and this can be of use to a younger person starting out, or they may provide a positive ‘role model/ mentor’
  8. Finally, when it works, you will some ‘small changes’…