November 2025 Fellows' update: Marsha McAdam
Marsha McAdam (CF 2023) spoke at The Hope Conference 2025 in Liverpool, a grassroots event celebrating advocacy, connection, and lived experience.
By Marsha McAdam, 14 November 2025
Fellow's Profile
Marsha McAdam
Fellow's Profile
Marsha McAdam
Impacting Change - Engaging vulnerable traumatised young people with BPD
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Investigate the social injustices and inequity that a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder often attracts
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2023
- Supported by
- Locality
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North West
Contact
Biography
I am a mental health advocate, ambassador and peer consultant at the Centre for Mental Health, Vice-Chair of NHS Confed's Mental Health Network, and Expert by Experience Chair of Equally Well UK.
My Fellowship focuses on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), mental illness, suicide prevention, intervention and postvention, and social inequity and injustices. I will visit the Helping Young People Early (HYPE) programme at Orygen in Melbourne, Australia – clinical, research and knowledge translation model integrated into the national service providing a youth centred early intervention with outstanding outcomes. A different but equally innovative programme at the University of Houston Adolescent Diagnosis Assessment Prevention Treatment Center (UH-ADAPT Center) has created a professional training model for junior clinicians, disseminating evidence-based practice through methods of training.
My personal experience of BPD means I have witnessed stigma at first hand and as a survivor of multiple suicide attempts I am inquisitive about early intervention. Using my national roles I will be able to present my findings to major UK mental health organisations and policy bodies.
Activity
September 2025 Fellows' update: Marsha McAdam
Marsha McAdam (CF 2023) recently spoke and co-chaired a session at the International Early Intervention and Prevention in Mental Health Association (IEPA) Early Intervention Conference.
By Marsha McAdam, 12 September 2025
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
Activity
November 2025 Fellows' update: Marsha McAdam
Marsha McAdam (CF 2023) spoke at The Hope Conference 2025 in Liverpool, a grassroots event celebrating advocacy, connection, and lived experience.
By Marsha McAdam, 14 November 2025
September 2025 Fellows' update: Marsha McAdam
Marsha McAdam (CF 2023) recently spoke and co-chaired a session at the International Early Intervention and Prevention in Mental Health Association (IEPA) Early Intervention Conference.
By Marsha McAdam, 12 September 2025
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
