Youth mental health and wellbeing

p.s.bagshaw@gmail.com

Sue is one of this city's treasurers, someone who has battled tirelessly to support our homeless youth and to provide services to young people requiring medical and counselling help. She is now working on plans for a new youth hub, where various agencies group together to support young people in need.

Dr Sue Bagshaw (BSc (Hons) MB BS FRACShM Hon FRNZCGP CNZM)Sue Bagshaw works as a primary care doctor specialising in adolescent/youth health at a one-stop community youth health centre for 10-25 year olds, which she helped to set up, under a trust called Korowai Youth Well-being Trust. She is working with others to set up a Youth Hub of services and transition housing. She is a senior lecturer in adolescent health in the department of Paediatrics at the Christchurch School of Medicine, and she is Training Manager at the Collaborative Trust (a research and training centre for youth health and development). She worked for the Family Planning Association for 20 years and worked for ten years part-time on the Methadone programme in Christchurch: which is why she has interests in common with young people – sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll!