Jane Case YoungMinds Northern Hub Manager

 UK’s leading advocacy charity for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing since 1993  National Campaigns – VIK, YoungMinds Vs (23,000 individual supporters)  Training – run training courses for commissioners, professionals, parents and youth workers all over the UK – 6,700 individuals trained over 237 days  Parent Helpline – provides support to 12,000 parents and families  Provide research, consultation and engagement work with parents, families and young people for public sector bodies

Vision Our vision is of a society which is active in building the emotional resilience of children and young people, and which responds caringly and effectively when necessary so that we create emotionally strong, healthy, contributing and independent adults, families and communities. Mission Improve the emotional resilience and mental health of children and young people throughout the UK by informing and actively engaging with children, young people, parents, policymakers and professionals

Launched in March 2014, HeadMeds is a unique website giving young people access to reliable information about the 21 most common mental health medications. Real life stories also give reassurance during a time which is often confusing, frightening and isolating. HeadMeds is great as there are things you don’t want to ask your pharmacist or support worker. It’s young-people friendly and the videos are great – its so good to know you aren’t alone and other people are in similar situations.”

Free, practical resources to help everyone in the school community step up and support pupils’ academic resilience. Helping those pupils who have lots of barriers to overcome is why I went in to teaching in the first place - Teacher “ “

Helping you address the stresses and strains of school life Training for school leaders, staff, parents and governors Develop your team’s understanding and skills through training from our experts. Sessions can be held in or out of house and tailored to all levels Consultancy Support Employ our Academic Resilience and other specialist consultancy support your school Working with young people Contact us to book our YoungMinds Vs workshops to help pupils fight the pressures that contribute to poor mental health and emotional wellbeing School and Community Fundraising Taking part in fundraising on behalf of YoungMinds is a great way to have fun, raise vital funs and improve awareness of the importance of young peoples mental health and wellbeing in your school

There are serious and deeply ingrained problems with the commissioning and provision of Children's and Adolescents' Mental Health Services. These run through the whole system from prevention and early intervention through to inpatient services for the most vulnerable young people.  Health Select Committee report

 More than half of all adults with mental health problems were diagnosed in childhood and less than half were treated appropriately at the time.  The economic case for investment is strong. 75% of mental health problems in adult life (excluding dementia) start by the age of 18.

 Nearly 80,000 children and young people suffer from severe depression  72 per cent of children in care have behavioural or emotional problems - these are some of the most vulnerable people in our society  95 per cent of imprisoned young offenders have a mental health disorder. Many of them are struggling with more than one disorder.  The number of young people aged with depression nearly doubled between the 1980s and the 2000s  The proportion of young people aged with a conduct disorder more than doubled between 1974 and  Inpatient admissions of young people under 25 for self harm have increased by 68% in the last 10 years (hospitals admissions statistics 2010)

 The system is running on old, insufficient data – we don’t know what need looks like  Provision cannot keep up with the pace of change we are seeing in young peoples mental health needs. – not swift to respond  Mental health needs are impacted today by things thing we have only a developing knowledge of – digital impact – poverty –increased anxiety  Commissioning is fragmented across the system. – impact of cuts – thresholds - provision

EVENTS (what happens to us) NATURE (what we are born with) NURTURE (what we grow up with)

Protective Factors Risk Factors

Sexual pressure Technology Bullying Body image Stats from YoungMinds survey of 2, year olds, 2013 Poverty Cuts to services Family breakdown Unemployment School pressures Find us, please, we need support before we lose who we are. Young Carer, 2014, YoungMinds Taskforce Report

In 2014, we consulted with over 5,000 young people to find out the problems they are facing in their daily lives – the results formed the focus of our YoungMinds Vs campaign Half the children consulted had been bullied 72% want unemployed young people to get help to deal with the stress of being out of work 82% said schools should prepare you for life by teaching how to cope when life is tough 1 in 3 young people do not know where to get help if they feel depressed or anxious 75% said they want sex ed that gives them the chance to talk about sex and relationships openly

WHAT WE SEE IS SYMPTOMATIC ISSUES OFTEN ARE COMPOUNDED

 Young People with Neurodevelopmental Disorders will often have associated communication difficulties ( ADHD, ASD )  A Lack of social use of nonverbal and verbal communication  Matching communication to the social context, following rules of communication  Difficulties in understanding what is not explicitly stated  The deficits can result in functional limitations in effective communication, social participation, social relationships, academic achievement, or occupational performance.  A particular concern is the absence of essential co- ordination of provision within and between services – to make sense of the chaos. ( developments)

Tailored, age- and developmentally-appropriate methods are needed to communicate with children and young people so that they can understand their mental health problems and the choices they have about their treatment and care. Personalisation is about respecting a person’s human rights, dignity and autonomy, and their right to shape and determine the way they lead their life. Personalised support and services are designed for the purposes of independence, wellbeing and dignity. Every person who receives support should have choice and control, regardless of the care setting. This is of critical importance for people with mental health problems – we know that feeling in control leads to better mental health.

 Advocacy  Befriending  Mentoring  Championing  Counselling as part of the core offer  Evolving to include SPLA Why ? Relationships Matter