As they embark on their early adult lives, young people who have experienced abuse and neglect as children, and developed serious mental illness as teenagers, are at the highest possible risk of falling into crises of isolation, despair, and rough sleeping.
Many of these young people are treated by NHS child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), for sustained periods of time, as they approach the age of eighteen. Pathway has led the creation of a creative online learning platform, called RESILIENT, to enable NHS CAMHS services to work with the most vulnerable children under their care and build their resilience to the stressors that cause homelessness.
We are also working to stimulate research in this field, and to advocate for change to the CAMHS system as experienced by young people who are homeless or at risk of becoming so.
Vulnerable young people are discharged into a void.
Senior NHS leader with responsibility for in-patient CAMHS governance, Pathway Roundtable event on CAMHS and homelessness.