  BPMHA
was established in 1991 to provide a forum where Black Mental
Health users in Waltham Forest could obtain support and where
Black and Ethnic Minority communities could discuss and gain
knowledge about Mental ill health, and the issues that affected
Black communities e.g. the over representation of Black people
in psychiatric hospital.
Initially responding to the number of young
men wandering about Waltham Forest with no safe place to go
to, BPMHA set up a stepping stone day care in two rooms in
Vicarage Road Leyton. BPMHA is now a fully fledged (if still
small) organisation providing advocacy and day care services
for Black Mental Health users,(men and women) in a purpose
built building . In the past 2 years it has also established
a support service for carers of Black Mental Health Users
and it remains the only service specifically targeted at Mental
Health Carers in the borough.
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