I am one happy The University of Edinburgh Alumni loving being back home prepping for this Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh event and looking forward to meeting Sarah Robertson from Generation Scotland tomorrow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿! Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health YPAG will be sharing top tips and learnings 🙌 #youth4mentalhealth #healthresearch

Very excited to welcome Thistletaff and everyone else to our Mental Health Youth Forum Networking event tomorrow in Edinburgh! If you're coming, don't forget to use our hashtags #Youth4MentalHealth #HealthResearch 💙 eventbrite.co.uk/e/mental-healt… Edinburgh Alumni The University of Edinburgh

1 sleep to go! Excited to welcome young people, youth orgs & mental health researchers to the mental health youth forum networking event at The University of Edinburgh 2moro looking at how we shape meaningful research with young people ☀️ #Youth4MentalHealth #HealthResearch Alex Kwong

Massive congratulations to Sarah Robertson for putting on a youth mental health forum up here in Edinburgh. Completely packed! And absolutely brilliant to bring so many young people, charities, policy folk and researchers together. Hopefully the first of many for Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh

And that’s a wrap on our Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health YPAG trip to Edinburgh! Such a great afternoon spent networking and sharing our learnings. Thank you Sarah Robertson Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh Generation Scotland and good luck🤞 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Words cannot express how incredibly proud I am of every young person (including my own son), presenter, facilitator, researcher, & partner org who came today with enthusiasm & ideas on how we get mental health research right for young people! You will all change the world 🌎 💕

Can't wait to see what comes next @edinburghuniversity after all the amazing ideas shared at yesterday's #MentalHealth Youth Forum Networking Event 💡 Big thanks to everyone who made yesterday so very special 💙

I had such a good time organising and then running the first Mental Health Youth Forum Network Event with Generation Scotland and The University of Edinburgh I’m so excited to see where this goes and how the forum progresses!!

Out of office is on for a week🥳 … now to find a caravan park or somewhere to go with little people & the dugs! Oh and if someone can make it sunny in Scotland for the next week, it would be appreciated! ☀️

How exciting is this? 💕💕💕 Zhuoni Xiao Eva Drummond Liana Romaniuk Emily Long

As someone who personally suffers from #endometriosis resulting in previous surgery I really welcome new research into this painful condition for many women. Thank you Nilufer Rahmioglu & Generation Scotland for collaborating #endowarrior

Massive thanks to Aye Mind for inviting us to share a blog about the Loneliness in the Digital World study. Please give it a read to find out about this important study which has been coproduced by young people 🥰 Zhuoni Xiao Heather Whalley Generation Scotland ayemind.com/loneliness-in-…

We ran a competition for young people to creatively share their thoughts on health research themes! 🥳 Well done to our inspirational winner (aged 12-15 category), who is also a Youth Ambassador for Touch of Love Outreach Young Achiever’s Club! 😍Sarah Robertson

Thank you Generation Scotland for highlighting our Youth Ambassador, Stephanie Akadiri who won the 12 - 15 Category writing competition. We are super proud of Stephanie! 🎉🎉🎉

We ran a competition for young people to creatively share their thoughts on health research themes! Well done to our runner up in the 16-18 category for this impressive animation!👏🥳

Join us!🧬 1. Sign up online at gen.scot & complete a 10-20min questionnaire 2. Aged 12-15? Provide parent/guardian contact info to confirm sign up 3. Send us your saliva sample via freepost 4. Aged 12-18? Claim your £20 e-voucher as compensation for your time!

📝 New on the blog! In this blog post, Wolfson Centre Public Involvement Lead Emma, and Lily one of the founding members of the Centre’s Youth Advisory Group (YAG), reflect on their recent trip to deliver a talk at Edinburgh University Read it on our blog:

Sarah Robertson Generation Scotland Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh 👇👇👇👇👇 First time speaker Lily - “I left the event feeling really proud of myself and Sami for representing the Wolfson YAG ❤️

Spot on, can I through access to #youthwork into the mix too? Built on relationships, trust, non judgment, kindness, hope, opportunities, friendship, voice, tackling inequalities, fun, helping with self worth/ direction & advocating social change & justice #youthworkchangeslives