Topic Mind The Gap: How we can support our young people in the wait for CAMHS – Abigail Turley and Charlotte Cockman
Date Friday 27 August 2021
Time 16:00 – 17:30
Location Online (please arrive in the online platform 5 minutes prior)
The Resilience Forum is for ANYBODY (with a pulse!) involved with or interested in resilience research
Session Summary
This forum aims to highlight the need for adults to be having effective conversations with young people in the period between asking for help and receiving it. This includes all who have been referred for specialist help and are waiting for treatment, those who don’t meet the threshold criteria for treatment, and those who have been discharged. We believe that equipping and empowering all who come into contact with young people in feeling confident in having a good conversation around resilient moves can make a huge difference to their mental health. We will introduce free resources that have been partly inspired by The Resilience Framework and produced by clinicians and none-clinicians who have grass-roots experience of working with children from deprived backgrounds with multiple ACEs. This incudes the Tough Times Toolkit, The Lemonade Project Resource Book, the Life and Lemons Journal and more. These resources can help any adult (no matter what background) have great discussions around resilience and support young people who might slip through the mental healthcare gaps. Some of these resources are available to download in the useful reading section below and we encourage you to read them before attending the session if you can.
Presenters
Abigail Turley and Charlotte Cockman
Abigail is the Young People’s Mental Health Lead for Shared Health Foundation and has helped develop the Lemonade Resources, which she has used to train many teachers and youth workers in Greater Manchester.
Charlotte is the Operations Manager at Shared Health and co-ordinates all projects including mental health, homeless families, parent-infant health and the baby bank hub.
Abigail Turley
Charlotte Cockman
Tough Times Toolkit
The Resources Book
Life & Lemons
Who might be most interested
Academics, practitioners, researchers, students, carers, community workers, service users, people with lived experience of mental health problems, young people, adults, all ages.
Useful reading
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The Resilience Forum is for ANYBODY (with a pulse!) involved with or interested in resilience research
Previous Resilience Forums
You can find information about our previous Resilience Forums in Brighton, Blackpool, Hastings and online here. Many of our previous Resilience Forums and Centre meetings have slides you can download, blogs you can read, or short films you can watch.