Accountability: We believe practitioners should be transparent about their work and diligent about collecting information relevant to mental health inequalities.
Activism: Mental health does discriminate and community supports are extremely underfunded. We believe practitioners have a responsibility to advocate for better resources and a more equal society.
Autonomy: We believe people should be as free as possible to make their own decisions, with support from the people they know and trust.
Co-Production: We value the expertise of people who have lived experience and their carers. We believe practitioners should work with them at each stage of mental health research, teaching, policy and practice.
Curiosity: Anti-racism is a lifelong endeavour. We believe practitioners should remain willing to challenge their own assumptions, to learn from experience, and to ask about people’s experiences of discrimination.
Impact: Our work seeks to enact real change, to combat longstanding processes of discrimination and marginalisation.
Inclusivity: We believe people from minoritised backgrounds should have better access to psychotherapies and other forms of community support. The mental health workforce should also reflect local diversity.
Intersectionality: We believe practitioners should be mindful of inequalities, as well as the ways in which they interact. Many of the people we work with have faced multiple forms of discrimination.
Relationship Building: All too often, people are lost in the mental health system. We believe practitioners should develop meaningful, long-term relationships with people, based where they find it accessible.
Safety: We believe people should be made to feel safe by mental health services. People from minoritised backgrounds often experience coercion, which can make them feel physically and psychologically unsafe.