Using experience-based co-design to improve how mental health and substance use service professionals respond to the needs of minoritized survivors of sexual violence | C4C

Little is known about how adequately mental health and substance use services meet the needs of racially minoritised women who have experienced sexual violence. This study aims to understand how racially minoritised women who have experienced sexual violence encounter mental health and substance use services, and to understand how healthcare staff from these services experience delivering treatment and care to this client group, through the use of individual interviews. The project also involves co-design, to work with survivors and staff from these services to co-produce an educational resource for staff to use in their practice. Consent for contact will be used as a recruitment strategy to recruit survivors of sexual violence.