Skip to navigation Skip to content

Diversity

Diversity is about respecting and valuing people’s differences. Being acceptant and respecting of people’s rights to celebrating their own uniqueness.
 
Equality is about ensuring that people are treated fairly according to their needs and making this every day practice and behaviour across the board, making it the normal attitude.
 
VOX is dedicated to equality and diversity, and is working to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to participate, informing policies and services that affect them and recognising that there can be many different understandings of what mental health means.
 
We publish a diversity news update in our quarterly newsletter as well as the VOX diversity network bulletin.
 
We also have an older people's group that meets every two months at our over 50's coffee morning.
 
 Young VOX group of 16-25 year olds to discuss issues related to mental health and young people in Scotland and more recently an LGBT Group that meets up in Edinburgh every 4-6 weeks for people with lived experience of mental health problems who are LGB or T

 

MOSAICS OF MEANING this is a new guide for policymakers, service providers, health improvement and community development workers. It describes how a series of interventions in glasgow sought to tackle stigma in mental health with black and minority ethnic communities.

AttachmentSize
[file] VOX- Diversity Network Bulletin Issue 1.pdf322.34 KB
[file] VOX-Diversity Network Bulletin Issue 2_0.pdf197.7 KB
[file] Mosaics of Meaning Handbook 2010_0.pdf1.14 MB

Printed from http://www.voxscotland.org.uk/about/our-work/diversity on 01/08/10 11:43:04 AM

VOX (Voices Of eXperience) seeks to take a leading role in creating an environment where mental health problems are not a barrier to participating in any aspect of Scottish society.