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“We must remain alert to emerging risk factors for suicide but also recognise how known risk factors may be exacerbated—and existing trends and inequalities entrenched—by the pandemic… although suicide in young people is relatively rare, rates have been rising in 10-24 year olds since 2010.”
Chaired by Dr Jon Goldin, Consultant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, and Vice Chair, Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists this Fourth National conference focuses on Saving Young Lives – Preventing Suicide in Children and Young People. Through national updates, case studies from multi-agency settings and lived experience insight, this conference will look at progress 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 discuss offering tailored support to families bereaved by suicide in line with the NICE recommendations.
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 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 LBGT 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
- Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence
