Youth Access

CAMHS to Adult Transition Project

28 October, 2005

25 February 2005

Youth Access has been invited to join a national Steering Group, primarily comprising representatives from the statutory mental and child health sectors that is supporting the development of a new project examining the transition of young people into adult mental health services.

HASCAS – the Health and Social Care Advisory Service, an evidence-based service development organisation working in the field of mental health – is conducting a new study to identify good practice in young people’s experience of making the transition from CAMHS to adult mental health services. The aim is to support improvements in young people’s access to age appropriate mental heath services.

The project has arisen out of a growing recognition that young people’s experience of the transition process lacks coherence; with many falling through the gaps created by the different criteria and thresholds imposed by adult mental health services. Youth Access work on Breaking Down the Barriers identified some the problems experienced by young people in accessing appropriate and timely help. Indeed, the evidence of BDBP supported HASCAS’s evidence in making its application for funding to the DoH for this project.

HASCAS, which has its London office at the Kings Fund, is an influential organisation, both within government and with the range of statutory mental health services. We are therefore especially pleased to have been invited onto this group. It provides much welcomed recognition of the contribution that YIACS are making to the provision of mental health services.

While this project due to the limitations of the funding will be relatively small scale, we hope that its results will act as an important catalyst for change in the longer term. It will throw at last a welcome spotlight on this neglected area of provision for young people.

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