Gender Equality and Women's Mental Health
Our Programme Lead for Gender Equality and Women's Mental Health is:
The aim of the national programme on Gender Eequality and Women’s Mental Health (GE & WMH) is to ensure the development of mental health systems that are able to deliver appropriate and gender equal services with a particular focus on women.
The programme was established in 2003/04 to support the Implementation Guidance: Mainstreaming Gender and Women’s Mental Health (visit the relevant pages on the Department of Health website) and its focus has been the specific delivery of differentiated high quality services for women service users and the development of a gendered context for mental health and social care.
Gender Equality
Attached here is a short guide highlighting steps you need to take to "gender proof" your mental health service.
"Rough Guide" to Gender Proofing your Service
*Assess your service: also attached here is a questionnaire that you are invited to use to self-assess your service's performance in meeting its stautory Gender Equality Duty.
Please return completed surveys to Dr Alison Longwill at CSIP West Midlands by 31st October.
Key Priority Areas for 2007/08
- Mainstreaming Gender Equality
- Gender Equality in Mental Health Services
- Improving Choice and Access to Pyschological Services
- Developing the Provision of Perinatal Mental Health Support
- Women from Black and Minorty Ethnic Communities
- Prevention of Violence and Abuse
- Women in the Crimincal Justice System