How social prescribing can help young people waiting for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) support
Tue 16 Apr
|Webinar
In this webinar we will explore how a social prescribing pathway could help young people aged 11-18 while they are waiting to access CAHMS, by connecting them to non-medical forms of community support such as skills development, peer support, befriending and social or cultural activities.
Time & Location
16 Apr 2024, 12:30 – 13:30
Webinar
About the Event
There are currently long waiting lists for young people needing mental health support in the UK. In this webinar we will explore how a social prescribing pathway could help young people aged 11-18 while they are waiting to access CAHMS, by connecting them to non-medical forms of community support such as skills development, peer support, befriending and social or cultural activities.
We will be sharing learnings from the first phase of the Wellbeing while waiting (‘INSPYRE) project - a three-year observational cohort study launched in 2022 by the Social Biobehavioural Research Group at the University College London.
Alongside this there will be an introduction to a newly published manual which will support CAMHS staff in developing and scaling social prescribing services in the future, as well as insights from making social prescribing happen right now on the ground. The session will end with the opportunity to ask questions.
We will…