Taking stock - taking suggestions!

We’re just starting our third year of the Dissemination Project for Refugee Women, and as I’m finishing our annual report to Comic Relief, it’s a great time to look back on what we’ve achieved, and what we still plan to do...

I’ve just got back from training refugee support workers , counsellors and volunteers in Wales, and I’m about to go back to Manchester to run a training afternoon with more people there. So far the project has trained more than 120 community-based workers and volunteers supporting refugees to understand CSEL’s psychological research.

We’ve presented at conferences in the UK and in Brussels; given talks about our own work and sat on panels. In September in Brussels at the Meeting of Ministers of Immigration CSEL’s trustee David Rhys- Jones and Executive Director Jane Herlihy met partner organisations and made contact with UKBA officials.

We’re exploring ways to bring our training to busy legal professionals working within the time-pressured fast-track process.

We’ve produced readable summaries of our research to go along with our training, and we’re thinking about other ways to make our resources available to people who aren’t psychology or legal professionals.

Now we’re planning the last part of the Dissemination Project – and we’d love to hear from you, if you think there’s something we could be doing that we aren’t, or you’d like us to come to your region and run training.

Get in touch with me: c.cochrane@csel.org.uk