Improving Mental Health Services for Young Adults: Supporting the Transition to Adulthood

Thursday 28th January 2016
London

This national conference will focus on improving mental health services for young adults, and supporting the transition from child and adolescent mental health services to adult services. Through national updates and practical case studies the conference will support you to improve mental health services for young adults in your practice.

The conference will open with an address by a young adult with lived experience giving his perspective, this will be followed by Dr Jacqueline Cornish OBE National Clinical Director for Children, Young People and Transition to Adulthood NHS England who will provided an insight in to improving mental health services for young adults through ensuring timely preparation started within child and adolescent services, actively managing and co-ordinating transfers between child and adolescent and adult services, ensuring continuous developmentally appropriate support from adult services, and commissioning tools, support and looking forward.

Topics Include:

• Opening Address: Young Adults Perspectives
• Improving Mental Health Services for young adults
• Building emotional resistance in young adults
• An evidence based approach to the development andevaluation of youth mental health service (16-25)
• Delivering an integrated age inclusive pathways andmaking sure young people don’t fall into gaps
• Improving the access and the effectiveness of psychological therapies in young adults
• Schools based counselling for psychological distress: what works, what needs improving?
• Improving mental health support in university and highereducation
• EXTENDED SESSION: Bridging the gap between Adolescent and Adult Mental Health Services
• Moving forward: securing excellence in mental healthservices for young adults of the future
• Feedback and Summary from Young Adults

For full details visit HC-UK website.