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By Victoria Sanusi
Two young black women in London found themselves feeling so excluded from mainstream mental health charities that they decided to create one, while dealing with mental health problems of their own.
According to the Mental Health Foundation, black and minority ethnic groups living in the UK are more likely to be diagnosed with mental health problems and more likely to experience a poor outcome from treatment.
Young black people aren’t being engaged
‘Nowadays, diversity seems to be at the top of everyone’s agenda and I think mainstream charities are trying to take this on board, which you can see through their ads and campaigns,’ Vanessa Boachie, founder of Inside Out UK told i.
‘However, the research tells us that black British people are most affected by mental health issues in the UK and when you look at the people who are in charge of these charities and designing the programmes and campaigns, most of the time they are not black B...
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