Mel (she / her)
Senior Young Advisor (2021)
Hi, I’m Mel. I’m one of the Senior Young Advisors, helping to take a lead during meetings, events, and supporting our Young Advisors when they are completing work.
My passion around mental health came about after my own personal battles struggling with my mental health and being admitted to a CAMHS inpatient unit. I had both positive and negative experiences with child and adolescents mental health services which gave me the desire to make a positive change so future patients will not go through the suffering and dismissal I went through.
Whilst being a Young Advisor I’ve had many opportunities, a few being to co-produce a chapter of a published mental health book and piloting participation training for child and adolescents inpatient units.
“If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air.”
Outside of the Young Advisors, I work full time in the emergency services, walking my miniature dachshund, and spending the summer sailing on my family’s boat in Turkey.