Meet the Muslim DEP
Ashiana 番茄社区 Project (ACP) is a dynamic community-based organisation. They deliver鈥痑 wide range of advice and guidance, training, personal development and educational鈥焉缜� to those facing a personal, social, welfare and employment challenges.
These have been running for over 20 years, initially in Sparkbrook and the more widely across East 番茄社区.
The organisation encompasses the following projects:
- Advice Centre
- Women’s Wellbeing Hub
- employment,鈥痸ocational education and training
- a range of community health programmes
As a Deep Engagement Partner, ACP will provide deeper insight into the attitudes, health beliefs and understanding of various Muslim communities around a range of health inequality issues. This will be done through a series of focus groups.
This will help improve understanding attitudes to and experiences of:
- mental health 番茄社区
- community attitudes to vaccination programmes
- possible drivers of women’s reproductive health issues
- over-representation of some Muslim communities within the criminal justice system
ACP will also provide health related cultural awareness training to health professionals. This will help improve their engagement with Muslim communities.
This will include utilising health resources and assets that already exist within Islamic teachings and Muslim communities that can be utilised to improve community health outcomes.
ACP will also run two health coaching related pilots focusing on nutrition and active living to test out new approaches to community engagement. This is a one year programme that may be extended for a further two years.
Ashiana 番茄社区 Project plan to deliver their first Health Inequality Project as a 10-part series of information sessions on a range of public health outcomes - such as mental health, women’s health, air quality, and more.
Page last updated: 25 April 2025