Discrimination

This factsheet provides an overview of key mental health issues for black and minority ethnic (BME) groups. The factsheet includes a list of BME services in the UK.

 A report into campaigns tackling mental health stigma, particularly findings from the Rethink campaigns in Norwich and Northern Ireland.

Breaking the Silence looks at how physically disabled people, African Americans, women and the LGBT community have had their rights recognised through civil rights and suggests how people with mental illness could do the same.

While mental health services may be closed for a variety of reasons, in some cases it is possible to challenge the closure.  This factsheet looks at why services might close, the proper procedure for closure, and how this might be challenged.

A DVD resource using service user and carer experiences to combat stigma.

Making a complaint can often be a prolonged and draining experience. This factsheet aims to help you make a complaint about care and treatment that you or a relative has received.

This fact sheet provides information on what the Disability Discrimination Act is, what the DDA covers, Employment and the DDA, Services and the DDA, Education and the DDA, and when discrimination is justified.

A leaflet for Rethink services and service users about making a complaint.

This is the story of the beginning of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship, later renamed Rethink in 2002. It tells of how a group of remarkable people, faced by the tragedy of severe mental illness in their own families, came together determined to do something about it.