Creativity, Mental Health and Young People - A prescription for life - panel discussion

Part of 42nd Street and The Horsfall's 2024 Symposium
Come and join the conversation and hear about ways that access to creativity might be part of the answer to growing mental health needs in young people.
Panel members:
Sarah Brown - NHS National Lead for Children and Young People’s mental health at NHS England
Darren Henley - Head of Arts Council England
Guy Noble - NHS Co-Chair of the National Arts in Hospital Network
Liz Simpson - Social Care - Head of Service, North West and Continuing and Aftercare Service, Glasgow
Gemma O’Brien - Researcher - The Welcome Trust
Princes Arinola - Artist
Dave Moutrey - Director of Culture and Creative Industries, Manchester Council
Rod Kippen - Clinical Lead in Creativity and Social Action, The Horsfall/ 42nd Street
Increasing numbers of young people are asking for mental health and psychosocial support across the UK.
The choices available to them-by prescription or otherwise- within the current health, education and social care system are unable to meet their increased needs and the complexity of their experiences. This situation is leading to an unacceptable world of waiting, inaccessibility, and inequity; the pressures on the system and young people are at a crisis point.
Increasingly, Creative Health is being considered as part of the solution. However, we need to understand and replicate best practices and mainstream approaches that work at scale and pace to address the current crisis.
This Symposium is being designed with young people with expert experience of the current system; they have researched national models of best practice in Creative Mental Health across settings in education, social care, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and across the Voluntary Community Social and Faith Sector.
This symposium will be a unique opportunity to hear from the experts; and to experience, learn and implement a replicable responsive toolkit for evidenced best practice. This is your opportunity to be part of a national action plan to scale the impact of creativity on young people's mental health.