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Preventing Suicide in Young People & Children

News and updated from today's Preventing Suicide in Young People & Children conference 

Preventing suicide in children & young adults: Learning from lived experience

James Downs 
Patient Representative, Royal College of Psychiatrists
and NHS England, Lived Experience Consultant & Peer Researcher

• how can we better support young people in crisis
• learning from lived experience

Transforming Mental Health Services for children & young people during and beyond Covid-19

Dr Nisha Balan
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist CAMHS CRHT Team
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
and Patient Safety Group Member, RCPsych

 

With Hannah HowardClinical Team Leads for the CAMHS CRHT and Crisis Plus team
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

• transforming mental health services for children & young people
• supporting young people through the Covid-19 pandemic
• addressing the risk and protective factors for children’s mental health
• tackling inequalities and injustices

Nisha and Hannah spoke about Transforming Mental Health Services for Children & Young People during and beyond Covid-19 at today’s conference.

Risk factors for children’s mental health

  • Lack of input from services – outpatient CAMHS, Education, Social Services
  • Isolation
  • Increased vulnerability to online risks
  • Domestic violence
  • Parental/ carer mental health, physical health risks and impact of this
  • Loss / death in family or friends or others
  • Worsening of existing mental illness/ increased needs influenced by pre-existing ND, ID
  • Placement breakdown due to nonavailability of supports/ respite/ increased carer needs
  • Reduced inpatient capacity

They provided some ways to address these risk factors:

Speaking with other service providers such as ambulance, police and social workers.

Making sure your own staff are more aware, upade your polocies and information in regards to virus.

Increase accessibility through setting up CAP and Hub services
 

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