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Rhema Place

Rhema Place is a Black and Ethnic Minority mental health community-based interest company based in Manchester, designed to create mental health awareness within the BAME community. Every year, one in four BAME will experience a mental health problem.

At Rhema Place, we engage people from BAME backgrounds in the development and delivery of culturally appropriate mental health services, to facilitate a better understanding of mental health conditions, and improve access through effective communication strategies to deliver individually tailored and culturally sensitive care.

What We Do

UK Team

Constant A. Obad

Constant is the Founder and Director of Rhema Place. Qualified Social Worker and senior mental health practitioner working with the National Health Service (NHS) in UK over 5+ years. She is a philanthropist and is passionate about Mental Health for Black and Ethnic Minority individuals in her community.

Catherine Musaga

Catherine is a registered mental health social worker with NHS England. She works with people who have complex and substantial mental health needs and works as a member of a multidisciplinary team ensuring that high-quality individualised care is delivered to promote recovery and maximise independence.

Michael Mabochrist

Michael is a well-experienced and passionate mentor who has been in the business of mentoring both youths and adults into becoming successful people since 2000. A number of the people mentored are now married and are responsible professionals in society. He believes everyone can be their best self if they are just motivated, guided and given the opportunity to do so.

Overseas team

Alvine Yika Epo

Alvine is a positive and driven English teacher with over 20 years of experience at the Government High School, Limbe, Cameroon. Alvine is passionate about engaging her students at all levels. She doubles as a counsellor, working with young people experiencing a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties to help them bring about effective change and enhance their well-being.

Glory O. Anobit

Glory is a state-registered nurse and midwife. She worked as a midwife for 5 years at Holy Trinity Hospital at Ekona in Cameroon. She is currently working as a midwife at the Tiko Cottage CDC Hospital, Cameroon. Glory has a wealth of knowledge in community health care and supporting people with mental health issues in the local community.

Mercy Nchung Ayuk-Ndem

Mercy has a strong background in community work. She worked as a statistic officer at the Cameroon Development Cooperation (CDC) and later joined MTN Cameroon as a private PA to the director.

Bertrand O. Ubang

Experienced IT Specialist with a strong background in designing, developing, and maintaining computer systems for a diverse business clientele, dynamic, technical-oriented professional specialised in various forms of IT and media, a graduate with 5years plus worth of experience in IT and management.

Alex Nkale

Alex Nale is an esteem banker with an impressive career spanning over five years in banking, a philanthropist, combining his financial expertise with his desire to make a positive impact in society.

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You Are Not Alone

At Rhema Place, we believe no one should have to face this alone. We are here to provide the support, advice, tools, and techniques you need to help you take control of your life. We believe in people having a choice in mental health care and we value the experiences of those who have had a mental health difficulty at some point in their life. Coming from a BAME background, we understand how difficult it can be to make the first step in asking for support, Rhema Place provides a safe, confidential, and non-judgmental environment in which you can be fully open and honest.

Rhema Place has overseas projects in Cameroon where we support the underprivileged children in the Northwest and Southwest regions of the country where there is ongoing civil unrest. Getting an education and quality health care is not just a fundamental human right, it is pivotal to increasing employment and income opportunities. With the ongoing crisis, there is a dire need for mental health services to help those who have experienced traumatic events in life, like rape, children watching their parents being killed in the battle, widows being raped and chased out of their communities and many more harsh realities which the people of Cameroon face.

Mental Health in Black and Ethnic Minority Communities

Mental health in BAME communities can be improved through continuously raising awareness and reducing stigma. We will continue to campaign within the BAME community and advocate for more BAME culturally sensitive mental health services through our dedicated and trained BAME clinicians who deliver therapies and interventions.

By increasing the awareness of the prevalence of mental health conditions within the BAME community, they will learn to understand that they are not alone and there are services out there to meet their needs. We operate in an enabling and non-judgemental environment, by doing this seeking help will be less daunting and result in more people receiving the help they need.

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