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This Seventh 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.
This conference will cover the ‘System-Wide Independent Investigation into Concerns and Issues Raised Relating to the Safety and Quality of CAMHS Provision at West Lane Hospital, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust’ and will feature a speaker who worked on the final report. The conference will also 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.
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.
Young people told us they were often treated in an uncaring way, and that verbal interactions were experienced as judgemental and at times felt abusive. Rather than simply being uncaring, some staff were perceived to be intentionally negative, and several interviewees described this as a form of bullying. The typical response to self harm and suicidality was described by several interviewees as negative and punitive.
Benefits of attending. 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 and target 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
- 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 LGBTQ+ young people
- Developing your skills in supporting children and young people in crisis
- Understand how we can better support bereaved relatives and families
- Improve information sharing to support suicide prevention in young people
- 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
