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This 10th 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 provide tools and resources that can be used to respond to students in crisis, as well as ways of recognising the risk factors and warning signs of suicide. Discussing suicide is an emotionally challenging conversation not just for the student but for staff, join us for a session focused on self-care, so that you can support staff mental health and wellbeing. The conference will also examine adherence to Caldicott Principles of information sharing, 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 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
