{"id":5492,"date":"2024-03-20T09:12:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/?p=5492"},"modified":"2024-04-16T05:11:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T05:11:46","slug":"ssr-conference-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/2024\/03\/20\/ssr-conference-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"SSR holds annual conference on youth mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>This year&#8217;s SSR conference, titled &#8220;Youth Mental Health Landscape: Upstream Prevention and Downstream Intervention&#8221;, was attended by over 800 participants in-person and online, and representing more than 100 organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Our Guest-of-Honour, Dr Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State for Health, delivered the keynote address. SSR&#8217;s Director, Associate Professor Eddie Tong, said in his welcome remarks that research should examine youths&#8217; developmental processes and study both the person and broader factors &#8211; including the family, peers, community, and societal forces. Meanwhile, Emeritus Professor Dr S Vasoo&#8217;s introduction speech focused on how key players in mental healthcare can further collaborate to move towards earlier interventions for youths in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The conference touched on more inclusive strategies and served as a platform for meaningful discussions among social service practitioners, researchers, policymakers, healthcare professionals, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Check out all media coverage of the event below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Straits Times, 20 March 2024 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/childhood-trauma-can-lead-to-mental-health-issues-among-young-adults-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nus.edu.sg\/newshub\/news\/2024\/2024-03\/2024-03-21\/TRAUMA-st-21mar-pA16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">print<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.8world.com\/singapore\/janil-puthucheary-on-teens-mental-health-2406086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Channel 8 News and 8world, 20 March 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nus.edu.sg\/efforts-to-bolster-mental-well-being-amongst-youth-take-centre-stage-at-nus-social-service-research-centres-annual-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NUS News Press Release, 20 March 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mewatch.sg\/watch\/Mar-2024-CH-5-News-Tonight-446689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Channel 5 News, 20 March 2024<\/a> (at 16min 27s)<\/li>\n<li>CNA, 20 March 2024<\/li>\n<li>Channel U News, 20 March 2024<\/li>\n<li>CNA938, 20 March 2024<\/li>\n<li>Warna 94.2 FM, 20 March 2024<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/study-finds-childhood-trauma-can-lead-mental-health-issues-among-young-adults\">AsiaOne<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/study-finds-childhood-trauma-can-lead-mental-health-issues-among-young-adults\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">, 21 March 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nus.edu.sg\/youth-mental-health-nus-ssr-conference-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NUS News Highlights, 8 April 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s SSR conference, titled &#8220;Youth Mental Health Landscape: Upstream Prevention and Downstream Intervention&#8221;, was attended by over 800 participants in-person and online, and representing more than 100 organisations. Our Guest-of-Honour, Dr Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State for Health, delivered the keynote address. SSR&#8217;s Director, Associate Professor Eddie Tong, said in his welcome remarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":5498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5492"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5590,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492\/revisions\/5590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ssr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}