Primary school staff in Merseyside are invited to take part in a new series of ROAR courses that will run from January to March 2020 in Liverpool, Sefton, Wirral, St Helens and Knowsley.
“Masquerade: Discover Your Other” –was a fabulous exhibition over at the Tate Exchange Liverpool that our young people from GYRO have been working on.
Professionals working with families in Merseyside are invited to take part in a new series of Youth Connect 5 (YC5) courses that will run from December to March 2020.
Bullybusters are inviting children and young people and their work colleagues to join them in wearing odd socks to celebrate Anti-Bullying week, which runs from the 11-15th November.
YPAS is a Liverpool based children and young peoples mental health charity. Established in 1966; our YIAC (Youth, Information, Advice and Counselling) model provides a wide range of support and therapeutic interventions to address the mental health and emotional wellbeing needs of children, young people and families.
October saw the launch of our citywide Whole School Approach to mental health schools’ pathway for secondary and primary schools.
Over three hundred teachers, headteachers and school governors from across Liverpool attended the city’s first education-focused mental health conference at ACC Liverpool on Friday (October 18).
XenZone, a digital mental health pioneer, has been commissioned by Liverpool NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to provide its popular Kooth mental health and emotional wellbeing support service to all 14-25-year-olds in Liverpool. Kooth will be closely integrated with the Liverpool CAMHS Partners (Alder Hey, Mersey Care, YPAS, MYA, PSS, Barnardos Young Carers, Bullybusters, ADHD […]
Over 100 Liverpool schools participated in The Neurodiversity Umbrella Project which celebrates the intelligence, ability and employability of all young people.
Merseyside Association of Family Therapy presents Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): systemic understandings and responses An outline of the original ACE study will be presented, explored and discussed. This will lead on to consider the biology of the stress response. We will look at what is ‘trauma’ and how it impacts on our physical and mental […]
Liverpool has secured funding for children and young people’s mental health, as part of the next wave of funding from a national trailblazer programme.
A number of vacancies have arisen within the CAMHS Partnership.
An outline of the original ACE study will be presented, explored and discussed. This will lead on to consider the biology of the stress response. We will look at what is ‘trauma’ and how it impacts on our physical and mental wellbeing across the life course.
FRESH CAMHS in partnership with Lancashire Wildlife Trust has been offering a pilot project of Forest School in Sandfield Park attached to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.
Liverpool’s NOW Festival – the young person’s drama and arts festival seeking to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health – is going on tour!
June has been a busy time for the education mental health practitioners as they have been getting ready to see their first caseloads of children from across the city’s primary schools.
Stonewall Young Campaigner of the Year Ben Saunders Ben Saunders, a young person from THE Action Youth at YPAS has won Stonewall Young Campaigner of the Year.
YPAS is seeking to employ two children’s psychological therapists to join the national award-winning Seedlings project to deliver therapeutic services in Liverpool primary schools.
Trailblazer Twenty-four pilot primary schools have now signed up to host twelve trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and mental health leads from each school have attended a training session around making referrals into the service. The practitioners (EMPHs) will be providing low-level interventions for children showing early signs of anxiety, low-mood and mild depression. […]
Following on from the huge success of the previous four Liverpool screenings of ‘Resilience – The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope’ We are delighted to announce screening number five. Just under 300 people have attended the previous screenings in Liverpool.
