SPPN Meeting 19

Key Learnings:

• Increased understanding of the work of the Suicide Prevention Youth Advisory Group and the wider Suicide Prevention Participation Network

• Increased knowledge of opportunities for young people’s participation in policy making relating to Suicide Prevention Scotland

The participation network is aimed at practitioners in Scotland working with young people with experience of suicidality, young people who have lost someone to suicide or young people who experience poor mental health.

Meeting Focus:

This session will be a joint session of the Participation Network, held by Children in Scotland and the University of Edinburgh, and the Local Children and Young People Suicide Prevention Forum held in partnership with COSLA and Public Health Scotland.

The Local Children and Young People Suicide Prevention Forum is aimed at bringing together those working locally and strategically on suicide prevention actives for children and young people.

At the event we will have:

1. Networking lunch

2. A range of workshops from attendees to choose from

Background

In 2022, Children in Scotland started its work delivering the national suicide prevention Youth Advisory Group in partnership with the University of Edinburgh.

In addition to the main work of the group, we are facilitating a participation network, in recognition that there will be many other children and young people who are not part of our advisory group but who have experiences and opinions that could and should inform our work.

Facilitator

The meeting of the group will be delivered by Chris Ross, Parisa Shirazi and Sara Kemal from Children in Scotland, Lynne Gilmour from the University of Edinburgh, alongside Jenny Ferguson from COSLA and Rob Kelly from Public Health Scotland.

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