TRIUMPH Network Newsletter
September 2019

Welcome to our 3rd TRIUMPH newsletter.

The focus of this issue is our wonderful team of Youth Advisers. The TRIUMPH Youth Advisory Group is made up of sixteen young people from across the UK, who were recruited through our youth organisation partners. This group of young people will play a key role in the development of the network and ensure that young people are able to be meaningfully involved in our events, activities and research. You can find out more about our Youth Advisers on our young people’s page.

The Advisory Group met for the first time at the end of June for a three-day residential workshop in Glasgow. At the workshop, our advisers had the opportunity to find out more about TRIUMPH, explore the challenges and opportunities around research into youth mental health, discuss how young people can be involved in the research process, and come up with ideas to engage more young people with the network. Our Youth Advisers had a lot to say about the network research themes, bringing a fresh perspective on the mental health challenges faced by young people and suggesting some exciting ideas for future research.

We’re currently writing a report from this residential, which will be available on the website. In the meantime, you can find out more about the residential directly from our Youth Advisers in the blog and video below.

Find out more about our Youth Advisory Group

TRIUMPH Youth Advisers have their say

You can check out what our Youth Advisers have to say about the TRIUMPH network, mental health and working with young people in research by watching a short film from our Youth Advisory Group residential.

Watch the video

Want to know what our Youth Advisers thought about the TRIUMPH residential? In her blog, Youth Advisory Group member Isla Jamieson-Mackenzie reports on her experience of the first meeting.

Read the blog

Introducing our Network Partners

To support the involvement of young people in TRIUMPH, we’ve teamed up with four youth partner organisations from across the UK:

Voice Of Young People In Care (VOYPIC)

VOYPIC is a charity that works across Northern Ireland with young people who have an experience of care. VOYPIC supports young people to have their voice heard in numerous forums. VOYPIC gives young people the opportunity to meet new people, try new things and helps young people get out of their comfort zone.

@voiceofyoungpeopleincare

Young Edinburgh Action (YEA)

YEA is a Scotland based youth-lead research group for 12-21 year olds. They research and take action on issues which are important to young people in Edinburgh.

@youngedinaction

Advice Leading to Public Health Advancement (ALPHA)

ALPHA is a youth advisory group based in Cardiff with ages ranging from 14-25. They believe it is important for them to have an impact on public health research.

@ALPHA_DECIPHer

Free2B Alliance

LGBTQ+ equality through inclusion

Free2B Alliance is a London based Community Interest Company, supporting LGBTQ+ young people and parents and empowering them to work together in delivering awareness training.

@Free2B_alliance

Solving mental health challenges through co-production

Earlier this year a team of pupils from Stirling High School teamed up with tech company Voxsio through the Scottish Government CivTech programme to develop an app to improve young people’s access to mental health support. Read a blog by Dominic MacInnes, Digital Content Manager of The CivTech® Programme, to find out more about how co-production with young people can lead to innovative mental health solutions.

Read the blog

Get involved: Youth Consultation Group

A great opportunity for young people aged 12-18 years who are interested in science to become members of the Youth Consultation Group for the 2020 Edinburgh Science Festival. The Youth Consultation Group have opportunities to share ideas about what the festival includes and be involved in big decisions about how the festival will work.

Visit the website to find out more:

Visit website

UKRI mental health network funding calls

Closing the Gap network: grants from £2,000-£30,000 are available to support projects that will begin to develop a research portfolio designed to ‘understand the causes and consequences of the health and mortality gap’ that people with severe mental illness experience and to ‘identity the most effective means to mitigate these causes and consequences’. Deadline: 30th September 2019.

Events calendar

Emerging Minds network kick-off events, throughout Autumn in various UK locations

7 October: Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network Event, Nottingham

6 November: Children in Scotland Annual Conference 2019, Edinburgh

7 November: Celebrating Children's Rights at UCL, London

14 November: 2019 Mental Health and Wellbeing in Scotland’s Schools conference, Edinburgh

20 November: An event to celebrate 30 years of the UNCRC in Wales, Cardiff

17 December: SMaRteN Student Conference: Shaping the conversation around student mental health, Cambridge

12 February 2020: Children and young people’s mental health: from early intervention to improved services, London

22 February 2020: The Centre for Child Mental Health: How to have a mentally health school, community or organisation, London

ICBM 2020

We would like to welcome members of the TRIUMPH network to submit abstracts and/or symposium ideas for the 16th International Congress of Behavioural Medicine (ICBM) taking place in Glasgow Scotland, 19-22nd August 2020. The previous ICBM in Chile 2018 had approx. 700 attendees, and is always accompanied by a fun social programme to support networking. We would love to have you join us to hear about work covering a range of topics related to the TRIUMPH network, including: Child, Adolescent and Family Health; Behaviour Change and Interventions; Digital Health; Systems and Network Approaches to Improve Health; among others. Please see our website for full details on how to submit by the deadline of 15th November 2019. Join our official mailing list to avoid missing out on updates, and follow us on Twitter.

Get in touch

Is there anything you’d like us to highlight for your organisation? Send your latest news, events and blog ideas to sphsu-triumph@glasgow.ac.uk before Monday 21 October 2019 to make sure you’re included in the next edition.
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Phone: (+44) 0141 353 7500

Address: TRIUMPH Network,
MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit,
University of Glasgow,
Top floor, 200 Renfield Street,
Glasgow G2 3AX

TRIUMPH is part of Cross-Disciplinary Mental Health Network Plus initiative supported by UK Research and Innovation.

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