St Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS) is delighted to host our 2022 Founder’s Day conference on Friday, 25 November.
Founder’s Day is held to recognise and continue the legacy of our founder, Jonathan Swift, a pioneer in mental healthcare.

Our 2022 Founder’s Day conference will explore the theme of prevention and promotion strategies in youth mental health. The conference will touch on current research in this area, as well as discussing how prevention and promotion strategies are being, and can be, implemented in an Irish setting.

The conference will explore both national and international perspectives. It will be particularly useful for academics, healthcare professionals and clinicians, child and adolescent practitioners, parents and carers.

More information and booking: https://www.stpatricks.ie/media-centre/events/2022/november/founders-day-2022 

Speakers and agenda
Professor Patrick McGorry, Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and Director of Orygen Youth Health and Orygen Youth Health Research Centre in Victoria, Australia, will deliver the keynote address. Professor McGorry is known worldwide for his development and scaling up of early intervention and youth mental health services and for mental health innovation, advocacy and reform.

Minister for Mental Health, Mary Butler TD, will deliver the opening address.

Other speakers include:

Professor Mary Cannon, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Youth Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and consultant psychiatrist in Beaumont Hospital Dublin
Ruth O’Connell, mental health technical expert with UNICEF for the East Asia and Pacific region.
Professor Alfgeir Kristjansson, Associate Professor at West Virginia University and expert in adolescent health behaviours with attention to substance use prevention and community health promotion
Professor Margaret Barry, the Established Chair in Health Promotion and Public Health at the National University of Ireland Galway, where she is also Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion Research
Tiernan O’Neill, Moyross Education Support Programme
Diana Chao, founder of Letters to Strangers, the largest global youth-for-youth mental health nonprofit, impacting over 35,000 people on six continents
Blezzing Dada, mental health advocate with a focus on intersectionality
Dr Niall Muldoon, Ombudsman for Children
Professor Fiona McNicholas, Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

The conference will take place online, beginning at 9.15am and closing at approximately 1pm. A full schedule will be shared shortly.

Registration
Founder’s Day is free to attend, but registration is essential.

For more information, please email communications@stpatsmail.com  or call +353 1 249 3396.

Disclaimer: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided on the IACP website event calendar, the IACP cannot accept any responsibility or liability for information provided by outside organisations