Publications

PACE was funded by The Kings Fund to conduct an evaluation of the Mental Health Advocacy Service.
The overall aim of the evaluation was to support the service in achieving insight into how people accessing the service gain from their involvement and to obtain a broader understanding of:

1. How the service “impacts on the empowerment of service users in relation to the issues that they face
2. What is it in particular about PACE’s Advocacy service that offers something to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community that other services might not?

PACE Mental Health Advocacy Report (94 pages, 660KB)

Getting Ready: Improving Your Self-Esteem and Getting Ready for Relationships (Tim Foskett, 2005)

This PACE workbook contains information and exercises developed during ten years of running workshops with over 3000 gay and bisexual men - who wanted to make fulfilling friendships and relationships with other men. You can either work through the workbook from start to finish or just dip into it, doing the exercises that seem most useful. The workbook also contains suggestions for further reading as well as a list of organisations that can offer different kinds of help.

Getting Ready High Res Download (65 pages, 5.25 Mb)

Getting Ready Low Res Download (65 pages, 1.65 Mb)

Getting What You Want In Friendships and Relationships (Tim Foskett and Alfred Hurst, 2006)

This is the second personal development workbook from PACE for gay and bisexual men. It contains information and exercises aimed at helping you to develop the skills and strategies that you need to make your friendships and relationships depper, longer-lasting, more fulfilling and more fun.

Getting What You Want High Res download (63 pages, 6Mb)

Getting What You Want Low Res download (63 pages, 2Mb)

Changing Families: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity Work in Mental Health - an Evidence-Based Guide for People who Work with Families (Hazel Platzer, 2005)

This booklet presents some guidelines for best practice for counsellors, therapists and other people working with families where sexual identity (sexual orientation) is an issue. It draws on research evidence, PACE’s expertise and experience and comments made by service users during an independent evaluation its family therapy service.

Changing Families Low Res download (17 pages, 269 kb)

Lesbian and Gay Parenting: Babes in Arms or Babes in the Woods? (Damian McCann & Howard Delmonte, 2005)
This paper examines developments in parenting by lesbians and gay men.It draws on research evidence to address fundamental questions about the impact of parenting by this particular group of parents on the children whom they raise. It also explores motivation and routes to parenthood and the specific arrangements lesbians and gay men have evolved to make parenting a viable option in their lives. Dilemmas and challenges faced by lesbian and gay parents are also explored and the implications for practice considered.

Lesbian and Gay Parenting Low Res download (20 pages, 258 kb)

Guidelines for Best Practice in LGB Youth Work (PACE, 2004)
These guidelines aim to provide those who wish to work with young lesbians, bisexuals and gay men with a set of standards that will make for a quality youth service provision. They include several examples of PACE work that can be adapted to suit other projects and were produced with the help and input from various agencies nationally and with workers and young people themselves.

Guidelines in LGB Youth Work download (13 pages, 186 kb)

Being Real: Promoting the Emotional Health and Mental Well-being of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Young People Accessing PACE Youth Work Services (Tracey Hind, 2004)
This report seeks to show how PACE’s youth work service promotes the emotional well-being and mental health of the lesbian, gay and bisexual young people accessing its projects. It focuses on three main topics, in relation to the overarching aim of mental health promotion: how the youth work service has progressed with its remit for work of national significance; groupwork and one-to-one support services for lgb young people and PACE youth service residential weekends and annual events.

Being Real download (72 pages, 997 kb)

Groupwork: Talking Spaces (Tim Foskett, 1996)

This booklet sets out the research background and theoretical basis of our therapeutic groupwork on HIV prevention with gay men. It also includes a detailed evaluation of PACE workshops for gay men, including the results of a follow-up questionnaire asking service users for their views on the impact of the workshops. It concludes with a discussion of issues raised and recommendations for future work.

Talking Spaces download (44 pages, 1,434 kb)

Groupwork: Talking Spaces II (Tim Foskett, Marcia Brophy and Alfred Hurst 2006)

Talking Spaces II details the development of the PACE groupwork programme for gay and bisexual men over the ten years since the first Talking Spaces, published in 1996. Part One presents the theoretical approach and research context which under-pin the programme, and discusses the role of therapeutic groupwork as a health promotion method within the gay/bi men’s health sector. Part Two focuses on the practical lessons learned in the planning and delivery of the PACE groupwork programme over the last 10 years. Part Three presents the results of an in-depth evaluation of the programme. The evaluation evidences considerable success across a number of sexual health and related mental health variables, and shows that the quality and effectiveness of the programme has increased over time.

Talking Spaces 2 download (59 pages, 1,240 kb)

LGBT Parenting (Final report 2007)

In 2006 PACE commissioned “social researchers” to undertake a research project which sought to better understand the specificities of LGBT parenting and their implications for support services and addressing gender differences in lesbian and gay parenting studies.

LGBT Parenting Final Report 2007 download (119 pages)

Creating a Safe Space (Training Pack)
This training pack is an essential tool for training officers or staff who want information on good practice in working with lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people and is designed to enable trainers to run sessions without having to do all the research and planning. It is available from Pavilion Publishing at a cost of £55. To order a copy call 01273 623 222.

Getting Sexy a PACE workbook for Gay and Bisexual Men (Tim Foskett @PACE 2008)
Getting Sexy is the third in a series of PACE workbooks for gay and bisexual men. The aim of the workbook is to encourage you to focus on your sexual self. As you work through the exercises, you will increase your understanding of your own range of sexual preferences, experiences and desires all while learning to integrate these different aspects of your sexuality into one whole healthy sexually active person.

Getting Sexy High Res download (65 pages, 6MB)

Getting Sexy Low Res download (65 pages, 2MB)