Inini Initiative Ltd

Our Inini Nuneaton Peer Support Group from last Friday. The guys are eager to integrate, connect and contribute. Their biggest request is to learn English. If you are an organisation/tutor offering ESOL classes in Nuneaton and Bedworth, we’d love to hear from you! Please reach out and help us empower these amazing individuals on their journey. Email us at [email protected] for more information 💚

Our migrant peer support group in Nuneaton today. Our Outreach Worker was on site to offer social support together with our therapist who delivers mental health training and group therapy. Colleagues working with migrants in Bedworth and Nuneaton please note: we are at the Hatters Space Community Centre, Nuneaton. CV11 5DN every Friday 10-3pm. Please inbox or email [email protected] if you need any flyers (both digital and printed). We have flyers in Arabic, Tigrinya, Pashto, Persian and English.

Together with our partners Coventry Refugee Migrant Centre and CWPT NHS Refugee Welbeing Service we also offer one-to-one counselling sessions to migrants. You can refer into the service via a referral form on our respective websites. Inini’s website is www.inini.co.uk. Referrals through this website will be assessed and shared among the partners.

“I have been through counselling for long […] but now no […]. The best way to treat me is to give me freedom because this situation is the one causing this mental problem”.

This is an extract from one of my participants’ interviews. And yes, in my practice at Inini I have individuals released from mental hospital to homelessness.

The data in my thesis revealed two superordinate themes; Struggle and Oppression and Medical Colonialism. It showed how Black Afrikans in the UK are aware that mental health services are programmed to fit the lifestyles of indeginous populations. As such, they do not see a solution in being prescribed medication or being given counselling sessions. Their problems can only be resolved through policies and legislation.

Join me this Wednesday, 21 January at the University of Warwick in FAB 3.32, 3-4.30pm where I will be sharing findings from my study which explored the barriers to mental health service access and utilisation among Black Sub-Saharan Afrikan migrants in England. All welcome 🙏