This conference which this year will be held virtually focuses on Saving Young Lives – Preventing Suicide in Children and Young People. By attending this 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 also use case studies to demonstrate interventions that work in health, schools, universities and multi-agency settings. The conference will examine adherence to information sharing principles as well as digital wellness and the potential impact of the Online Safety Bill.
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 viewing online self-harm and suicide content has on individuals
- Implement a preventative approach to treating young people in CAMHS services
- 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 children and young people with autism
- 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.
Please note a 20% discount for this event is available to BACCH members. To obtain your discount code please email us at [email protected].
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