Sandwell Community Health Network, known as CHN, is a public health programme targeted at the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in Sandwell.

CHN currently works with 7 different community groups including:

• African Caribbean

• Bangladeshi

• Indian

• Irish

• Pakistani

• Sikh

• Yemeni

Our aims and objectives

• Improve and promote access to services

and appropriate health information

• Empower and work with communities to identify

their own health and wellbeing needs and find

effective solutions

• Develop culturally appropriate health and social

care programmes to reduce health inequalities

• Undertake community development and

engagement activities

• Raise awareness of health and wellbeing issues

• Develop and manage community based health

projects and deliver structured education

programmes in community languages e.g. on

diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer

• Provide management support and link with

community based workers

• Encourage social justice, community unity and

inclusion of ethnic minority issues to mainstream

policy making

Activities we support

• Health promotion activities

• Physical health activities

• Healthy eating activities

• Outreach work with hard to reach communities

• Women’s only empowerment and

health activities

• Men’s only activities and elderly men’s groups

• Gardening projects

• Structured health education programmes

• Support groups

• Community health events

• Talks and sessions about health and social care services

• Advice and help with accessing other services

Contact Details:

Project Manager - Sandwell CHC
Kingston House - 438 High Street
West Bromwich
B70 9LD

Telephone: 0121 612 1625
Fax: 0121 500 1410
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