Sharing the Vision, A Mental Health Policy for Everyone (StV) is Ireland’s ambitious national mental health policy to enhance the provision of mental health services and supports across a broad continuum from mental health promotion to specialist mental health delivery during the period from 2020 to 2030. The vision embodied in StV is to create a mental health system that addresses the needs of the population through enhancing the inclusion and recovery of people who have complex mental health difficulties. It promotes a vision where service providers should work in partnership with service users and their families to facilitate recovery and reintegration through the provision of accessible, comprehensive, and community-based mental health services.

Governance and oversight of implementation progress of the policy is provided through the National Implementation Monitoring Committee (NIMC) supported by a Reference Group of Service Users. A number of specialist groups were formed to address the implementation of the complex recommendations contained in the policy. One of these is the Youth Mental Health Transitions Specialist Group which was established in September 2021 with a focus on implementation of StV. 

Recommendation 36: Appropriate supports should be provided for on an interim basis to service users transitioning from CAMHS to GAMHS. The age of transition should be moved from 18 to 25, and future supports should reflect this.

The specialist group focused its work into two separate, but interrelated workstreams:
Workstream 1: Development of an enhanced transitions plan (including implementation plan) to support individuals transitioning from CAMHS to AMHS at 18 years.
Workstream 2: Development of a reconfiguration plan, including prioritised and phased recommended actions, in order to plan for the provision of age-appropriate specialist mental health services up to age 25.