part of the gbp million pledged to improve access to psychological therapies will specifically help people from communities that find it difficult to access these services in time to change the department of health funded mental health antistigma and discrimination programme focused on working with african and caribbean communities ringfencing of the grants fund for work with bme communities and build partnerships with bme organisations it is part of a farreaching new agreement between police mental health trusts and paramedics the concordat acknowledges that there are particular difficulties to achieving better mental health outcomes for people in black and minority ethnic bme communities