Moving Young Men from Isolation to Belonging

There have been increasing calls for more gender-specific service provision to support young men’s mental health and wellbeing.  In Ireland, young men are the demographic group that are most likely to die by suicide, but among the least likely to seek help.  A recent article in the American Journal of Men’s Health by Billy Grace (Institute of Technology Carlow), Noel Richardson (Institute of Technology Carlow) and Paula Carroll (Waterford Institute of Technology) looks at service providers’ perspectives on the factors that support or inhibit young men from engaging in services targeted at supporting their mental and emotional wellbeing.  You can read the article online at: http://jmh.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/02/24/1557988316634088.full.pdf?ijkey=OS4ueddKvwJz9fy&keytype=finite