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- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
...the needs of those seeking international protection and Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection. It is imperative to act upon recommendation 63 of Sharing the Vision and ensure that persons in direct provision services and refugees arriving under the Irish refugee protection programme have access to appropriate tiered mental health services through primary care and specialist...
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
...mental health challenges that are linked to experiences of war, torture, human trafficking and other traumatic situations, including their migration journeys. They survive with little or no supports in direct provision or emergency accommodation where there is a very poor understanding of the effects of trauma. Lack of training for staff on how to respond is a real concern. So too is...
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
...The person becomes aggressive and agitated as a result of not receiving the kind of style that he or she is used to. That can lead to many different issues, such as domestic violence taking place in the direct provision, DP, centres. Also, the conditions in the DP centres themselves lead to a lot of those conditions. Sometimes we have to look at it as a strength-based model versus the...
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
...made for transgender women or transgender in general. From our work I know how it can be difficult and challenging for lesbian women to get that meaningful support. Even when they are living in direct provision centres sometimes their needs are not met. The managers and people working in these accommodation centres are not aware of them or of how better to help and support them, so it...
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
...most at risk, it is definitely a matter of intersectionality. If you are a woman from a forced migration background, and if there is previous trauma or even childhood trauma, and now you live in direct provision, you will be in a more vulnerable situation. That should be considered. The research definitely says that those who come through forced migration channels are more vulnerable...
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
...to speak to the left hand, particularly when the issue is so easily identifiable. In a particular case of ours, a gentleman with long-term enduring mental health issues lived six years longer in direct provision than he should have because he did not have the capacity to advocate for himself to get a house. Although he was linked in with a good mental health team, that addressed the...