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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Dr. Gerry McCarney: Good evening all. I work with a SASSY team, which works with young people under the age of 18 who have significant issues with drug and or alcohol use. There are some key points in my opening statement. Dual diagnosis means that one person can have a moderate-to-severe mental illness at the same time as a substance use disorder or a behaviour or process addiction....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

...health organisations, CHOs, to six HSE health regions. We understand that the aforementioned two dual diagnosis hubs are being funded separately through mental health and then also through the national drugs strategy. We would welcome more information on these points. Our recommendations are to urgently implement the youth mental health pathfinder project, to develop child and young...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

...if it takes place over the phone rather than through going to shops and so on. We are very conscious of that in trying to develop that service. In the strategic implementation group, SIG, for the drug and alcohol strategy, we put in eight new action points in the mid-term review, one of which was the development of a national substance misuse service for under-18s that would be cohesive,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

...team are the two existing teams at tier 3 level. We will work in unison to try to develop that and the plan is to have two further teams, in Cork and Galway. Halfway through the lifetime of the drug and alcohol strategy, there was an interim review. The national oversight committee was reconstituted and it was broken up into strategic implementation groups to look at various aspects...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

...they do not reach the threshold for its service. There is a huge gap between Jigsaw and CAMHS for young people who just do not seem to fit the criteria for either. If a young person is using drugs, both Jigsaw and CAMHS are reluctant to see them. A lot of the young people I have worked with over the years would be self-medicating because they have waited so long to get help that they...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: .... In saying this, I am not saying anything that has not already been said. I want to try to get a deeper understanding of the substance abuse service specific to youth, SASSY, and the youth and drug alcohol service, YoDA. I am reliably informed by my Dublin colleague that YoDA is on the southside and SASSY is on the northside. We are going through a bit of a "Star Wars" phase at home...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Will dual diagnosis as regards drug taking or whatever addiction or other issues be dealt with?