Informative and engaging articles from across the Race Equality Foundation, as well as external contributions.
Eleni Bloy: Healthy Relationships in Waltham Forest
Eleni Bloy shares her thoughts on the Foundation building 'Healthy Relationships' through SFSC in Waltham Forest. We have been delivering Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities (SFSC) in Waltham Forest since 2016 and [...]
Mu’minah Iqbal: Involving and engaging young people in coproduction
Mu’minah Iqbal, Policy and Practice Research Assistant, is helping to deliver the Race Equality Foundation racism and trauma project, in partnership with the charity Barnardo’s. The project's focus is on the impact [...]
Joy Ohen: Thinking about the role of Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities in school settings
Joy Ohen, Parent Programme Officer, has been delivering SFSC across South London for a number of years. Many of the venues that she has been using to deliver programmes have been schools. [...]
Jade Briant: Building the capacity of the voluntary and community sector to provide evidence based interventions
Jade Briant provides her insights into how the VCSE sector and community facilitators can be supported to deliver a structured, evidence based model like SFSC having worked in numerous boroughs across London [...]
Tracey Bignall: The importance of co-production for minority ethnic communities
In order to have a health and social care system that works for everyone in society, it's important to speak with, listen to, and design services that include everyone in society. Black, [...]
Christie Garner: What young people have told us about Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities
Over the last three years I have been leading some exciting research with over 20 young people to understand their experience of the Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities (SFSC) parenting programme. This work [...]
Leandra Box: Challenge Fund 2 Success
Last week the Department for Work and Pensions announced that the Race Equality Foundation had been successful in our application to secure funds to support Black, Asian and minority ethnic parents better [...]
Antoinette Wood: Joining the Race Equality Foundation
I am thrilled to be a part of the Race Equality Foundation and excited to contribute to the Foundation's mission of promoting racial equality and social justice. I firmly believe that [...]
Bernadette Rhoden: SFSC and Neurodiversity: developing new resources and training
In a Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities (SFSC) programme in South East London some years ago, I met a couple who had two children under the age of seven, and an unsympathetic [...]
Trupti Patel: Empowering parents and children: lived experience matters in the TOGETHER Study (SFSC) trial
The TOGETHER Study is all about valuing life experience just as much as the opinions of experts. This study, running until March 2024, aims to work out how effective Strengthening Families, Strengthening [...]
Tracey Bignall: Understanding the experience of Black Asian and minority ethnic young people with type 1 diabetes or epilepsy
Tracey Bignall, Senior Policy & Practice Officer Diabetes is quite often one of the conditions that comes to mind when you mention young people’s health. It is true that Type [...]
Rachel Duncan: Joining the Race Equality Foundation
I have recently started as a research assistant on the Fathers Together study, working with the Race Equality Foundation, UCL, and CNWL NHS Trust. The study aims to understand the [...]
The TOGETHER Study
The TOGETHER Study is a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded study evaluating the Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) parenting programme. The Race Equality Foundation has run two workshops as [...]
Ethnicity and young people’s health inequalities
In this blog post, Rachael McKeown explores the evidence on the health inequalities experienced by young people from ethnic minority backgrounds. New AYPH reports present the latest available data and experiences of [...]
Start for Life initiative
The Race Equality Foundation will be supporting the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to deliver on their Start for Life initiative over the next two years. Start for Life is part [...]
Mu’minah Iqbal: Joining the Race Equality Foundation
I'm excited to have joined the Race Equality Foundation as a Research Assistant. I am currently working on the racism and trauma project. Before joining the team, I completed my Masters [...]
End Violence Against Women latest Snapshot report
Our coaliton partner End Violence Against Women's latest Snapshot report contains key recommendations to end and prevent violence against women and girls - from public attitude campaigns to holding accountable the tech companies that promote [...]
Supporting Black, Asian and minority ethnic carers
Many Black, Asian and minority ethnic unpaid carers don't recognise themselves as carers. Some languages even lack a distinct word for ‘carer’. It’s vital that services are inclusive to ensure that carers can [...]
Eva Morrison: Joining the Race Equality Foundation
I am very pleased to be part of the team at the Race Equality Foundation. I've joined the charity at an exciting time and look forward to using my extensive communications [...]
Environmental crises in the UK, and Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities
The Race Equality Foundation and charity think tank NPC are collaborating on a project to raise awareness on the impact of the climate and nature crises on the lives of people from [...]
BBC Newsbeat interview on mental health support
Evidence shows that people with severe mental illness die younger and this is often the result of their physical health. They are at increased risk of multiple long-term conditions and have higher [...]
How we are working to reduce parental conflict
Enhancing relationships has always been a core component of Race Equality Foundation’s ‘Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities’ (SFSC) parenting programme. Whether parents and other main adult carers live together or apart, evidence shows [...]
Should Rishi Sunak be a care worker?
There is a danger in asking the Prime Minister ‘would you do the job of a care worker for £18,000 a year?’ Clearly the question is designed to see how he defends [...]
Sharing Lessons on dementia with Care Quality Commission
Earlier this month, the Race Equality Foundation were really pleased to be a part of, and host, an online webinar with over 170 Care Quality Commission colleagues exploring issues around dementia care. [...]
Race Equality Foundation response to the COVID-19 Inquiry questions
Race Equality Foundation responded to a set of questions put to ourselves and others regarding the pandemic and the lessons that can be learned from the UK's response to it. A brief [...]
