CommYounity Unite

ETHOS

CommYOUnity UNITE is a grassroot voluntary organisation designed around YOU the individual. Meeting and supporting YOU where you’re at, to access secure, safe, quality advice, guidance, and support at the moment it’s needed, taking into consideration your past, present and future.

We aim to provide flexibility to meet the needs of the individual throughout the different stages of their journey of knowledge and empowerment.

VISION

Our vision is to create a truly inclusive system that holistically interweaves around the individual removing the rigidity of responses received within services to reflect a more holistic and equitable service wrapped around the need of the individual.

WHO ARE WE?

CommYOUnity Unite was birthed out of the Black Advocates Training Programme 2019 lead by Jacqui Dyer that addressed the lack of culturally appropriate advocacy for individuals and their families within the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Based on our work and collective lived experiences in the areas of housing, education, mental health, social care, disabilities and the criminal justice system both within voluntary and statuary services, we found a common theme of high disproportionality outcomes within Black and ethnic communities threaded throughout multiple services, that lacked a targeted experience to better inform wider practice from an intersectional lens.

This led us to look within the wider community to form a culturally sensitive advocacy service that aims to provide a continuity of care fused with a wraparound service that promotes independence, supports social integration in a holistic, therapeutic, and empowering way.