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This national conference focuses on transforming mental health services for children and young people, ensuring early intervention, and developing integrated services with clear care pathways from first intervention to crisis and inpatient care. The conference will also look at national developments and learning from the Covid-19 pandemic and how CAMHS has had to adapt and innovate to provide effective care. The conference will address suicide prevention and learning from suicide and also safeguarding and CAMHS.
“This pandemic has hit our young people hard and while services have remained open throughout, we have seen an increase in the numbers of children and young people seeking help from the NHS for their mental health.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the mental health of children and young people, and has led to an increased demand on services.. Feedback from children and young people themselves has highlighted how important it is that they receive the right care at the right time, and the consequences of not getting this help… it is important to reinforce that any changes to children and young people’s mental health services in the post pandemic environment must be person-centred and focused on the individual needs of children and young people.”
“We want to ensure that all children and young people are supported with their mental health and wellbeing, as part of our plans to build back from the pandemic”
“Even before the Covid pandemic, we faced an epidemic of children’s mental health problems in England and a children’s mental health service that, though improving significantly, was still unable to provide the help hundreds of thousands of children required. It is widely accepted that lockdown and school closures have had a detrimental effect on the mental health of many children. Since the NHS study in July 2020 estimating one in six children in England have a probable mental health condition, we have had another long lockdown. Sadly, this will be causing even more damage to many children’s mental wellbeing and putting even greater strains on mental health services, potentially for years to come.”
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improve mental health services for children and young people
- Reflect on the lived experience of a young person with lived experience
- Understand the impact of Covid-19 on children’s mental health and CAMHS services
- Learn from outstanding practice in transforming CAMHS
- Update your knowledge on national developments and learning including how we can improve accessibility and waiting times
- Improve early intervention and working with schools in a preventative way to improve wellbeing and resilience
- Develop your skills in new ways of working with inpatient admissions and children and young people in crisis
- Improve suicide prevention and learning from suicide – including the role of the Suicide and Self Harm competency framework
- Reflecting on CAMHS and Safeguarding including the increasing role of using a contextual safeguarding framework
- Working with schools in improving wellbeing reducing suicide in children and young people
- Improving the transition from child to adult mental health services
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence
