News - Children & Young people - 2020

Share your views about Kooth online mental wellbeing tool.

24 December 2020

Kooth is a free anonymous online tool which offers counselling and emotional wellbeing services for young people aged between 10 and 25 years old. It’s been available in Liverpool since Autumn 2019.  

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Training

16 December 2020

An opportunity for professionals to be trained in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).  The course is free to members of staff from Fresh CAMHS, YPAS, and ADHD Foundation (who meet the EMDR Association eligibility criteria). The cost for non-funded delegates is £900 per person. 

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National recognition for YPAS open-access mental health hubs

30 November 2020

The solution to young people’s mental health needs: Liverpool CAMHS partner YPAS Integrated Community Hubs – open-access mental health hubs – and the early intervention model of YIAC (Youth, Information Advice & Counselling) have been recognised nationally.

Liverpool NOW Festival 2021

13 November 2020

Established in 2015, by Merseyside Youth Association’s RAISE Team, The NOW Festival aims to engage young people in a creative discussion around the topic of mental health, through whatever ‘NOW’ issue is selected for that year. 2021 will be the NOW Festival’s 6th year.

COVID-19 study – children and young people

21 August 2020

Are you a young person returning to secondary school or sixth form in September?  We would like to hear your thoughts and concerns about returning to school following the COVID-19 pandemic, and your thoughts on a proposed research study to understand whether COVID-19 spreads in schools and the impact this may have outside of school.

Seedlings Project update August 2020.

21 August 2020

On completion of the PSS / YPAS Seedlings contract merge in April 2020, the YPAS Seedlings team of 19 Children’s Psychological Therapists are currently delivering a Seedlings service to 109 primary schools across the city.

Voices of Culture – calling young people from black, Asian and ethnic minorities

29 July 2020

We want to hear the voices of young people from black, Asian and ethnic minorities as we continue to tackle the stigma around mental health, as well as building resilience.

COVID-19 Liverpool CAMHS Support

27 March 2020

The Liverpool CAMHS Partnership had adapted as coronavirus impacts our everyday lives. Our partners are working hard to ensure children, young people and families get the support they need during this time.

Take part in the Resilience Challenge

24 March 2020

Who loves a good challenge? The RAISE mental health promotion team are calling out for children and young people to take part in their Resilience Challenge.

Pride, Poetry and People of Colour (POC)

25 February 2020

In honour of LGBT History Month 2020, the young people of GYRO (YPAS’s LGBTQ+ Youth Group) curated a mini pop display in the education room at the International Slavery Museum.  The theme for LGBT+ History Month 2020 is Poetry, Prose and Plays.  GYRO young people focused their display on LGBT+ people of colour who have […]

#TicketToPride will shortly be arriving in Liverpool. Are you ready to jump on board?

24 February 2020

Our Ticket To Pride campaign is a North West-wide arts-based campaign challenging LGBT-phobic hate crime on public transport. Vast numbers of people across our country use our public transport systems to go about daily business but, for some, this can be an unsafe and challenging part of what should be a standard routine. British Transport […]

Liverpool’s ‘Drop Everything and Read’ supporting emotional wellbeing

11 February 2020

On World Book Day 5th March schools across the city will be dropping everything and reading at 10 am to showcase the importance of reading for enjoyment. This Drop Everything and Read session is part of the Liverpool Readathon, a citywide sponsored read with the aim of encouraging children to read for pleasure and to […]

NOW Festival 2020

10 January 2020

Children and young people from across Liverpool will come together to perform in the city’s fifth annual NOW Festival next month (February).