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“Nearly half of 17-19 year-olds with a diagnosable mental health disorder has self-harmed or attempted suicide at some point, rising to 52.7% for young women”
This Sixth National Conference which this year will be held virtually focuses on Saving Young Lives – Preventing Suicide in Children and Young People. By attending this one day conference you will hear from expert speakers on how your services can reduce preventable suicides and save young lives. Through national updates, case studies from multi-agency settings and lived experience insight, this conference aims to set the scene for progress already being made and what needs to change to improve resilience, wellbeing, mental health support and effectively prevent suicide in children and young people. The conference will use case studies to demonstrate interventions that work in health, schools, universities and multi-agency settings. The conference will examine implementation of the self harm and suicide prevention competence framework for children and young people and will also reflect on suicide prevention in young people during Covid-19.
“Covid-19 has exposed fault lines in society where risk of suicide is also found - inequalities based on deprivation, ethnicity, disability and stigma. The restrictions that were necessary to tackle the pandemic have brought their own risks, especially for young people whose education and opportunities have been curtailed.”
Why attend?
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improve services, practice and treatment to reduce preventable suicides and save young lives.
- Discuss the national data and evidence base currently on young suicides, and use this to direct service improvement and interventions
- Reflect on the lived experience
- Understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and how we can support children and young people through and beyond Covid-19
- Implement the Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention Competence Framework for Children & Young People
- Understand how you can work to increasing young people’s resilience & self-compassion
- Improving information sharing to prevent suicide in young people & children
- Deliver effective multi- agency working to support “high risk” young people
- Reflect on the relationship between suicide and self harm
- Work in innovative ways with schools to improve support and wellbeing
- Identify key strategies for improving access to services for high risk groups such as university students and LGBT young people
- Developing your skills in supporting children and young people in crisis
- Understand how we can better support bereaved relatives and families
- Understand how the national ambition for zero suicide applies to CAMHS
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
