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Mental health services: 'What is it about your outreach that makes it hard to reach our Black communities?
The term 'hard to reach' is quite stigmatising and diminishing. If we’re hard to reach, it suggests we're the problemI'm not interested in trying to replace this term with phrases like ‘seldom heard’, 'hard to engage', or 'reachable distance'. Though they may have their merits, no language will perfectly represent our communities' concerns.