Join us for our 7th year of the Liverpool NOW Festival, which will be hosted at magnificent Black-E!!! The festival will take place on the 3rd and 4th of February 2022. Come along and see some of Liverpool’s children and young people showcase their pieces all around the theme of mental health and ”What needs […]
Public Health Liverpool, in collaboration with the Liverpool CAMHS – Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and Alder Hey Children’s Foundation Trust, has launched a city-wide ‘Reach Out Liverpool’ campaign to raise awareness of suicide prevention. It aims to raise awareness that suicide is preventable and to remove the stigma surrounding suicide – something which prevents […]
Liverpool CAMHS partner, ADDvanced Solutions Community Network (ASCN) is delivering a unique year-long programme for parents and carers whose child has received a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
This is a two-session programme designed for primary school children. It can be delivered to a full class or a smaller group of young people, who may need support to make positive choices and understand the impact of their actions on others. Bullybusters have devised worksheets for young people to work through alongside our sessions […]
The Department for Education (DfE) is offering a grant for a senior member of school or college staff to access quality assured training to implement an effective whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing in your setting.
The RAISE Team at Merseyside Youth Association is looking for ten primary schools to take part in an exciting opportunity that will support children and give them the emotional skills to help them make a successful transition to secondary school by providing Roots Of Empathy’s award-winning programme in Year 5.
We’re delighted to announce that the Liverpool CAMHS online referral form has been shortlisted for Mental Health Innovation of The Year at the HSJ Awards 2021, recognising their outstanding contribution to healthcare – in what has been an exceptional and challenging period across the sector. Despite the demanding circumstances of the past 18 months, over […]
The BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre and Policy Innovation and Evaluation Unit have published initial findings from the early evaluation of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme.
Improving the lives of autistic people is the focus of a new multi-million-pound strategy launched by the government today.
Merseyside Youth Association, the organisers of the Liverpool NOW Festival 2021, which was broadcast live on YouTube have hailed its first digital version a huge success.
Now more than ever, it is important to celebrate and listen to children and young peoples’ voices. Rather than cancelling the event, the RAISE Team will be hosting this year’s NOW Festival as an online event.
In March 2021 YPAS carried out a survey* to find out how the COVID-19 Pandemic has impacted children, young people, parent/carers. This unique data has been analysed and collated together in a video highlighting some of the key points and feedback. Thank you to everyone who supported this data collection. View the survey results video […]
A new online resource has been launched to help children, young people, parents and professionals to make referrals into partnership mental health services and get support from Liverpool CAMHS.
YPAS is seeking to employ a primary school counsellor/therapist to offer creative therapies for children based across Liverpool primary schools on the national award-winning Seedlings Project. Essential Criteria: Qualified & Registered Counsellor / Therapist, Accredited or working towards accreditation. Job Title: Children’s Psychological Therapist Project: Seedlings Salary: NJC scale 23 (£27,741) Pro-rata Contract: 12 […]
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, our partners have been working hard to support children, young people and their families.
There is an exciting new project coming up that is free for anyone aged 16-25 who would like to learn more around vlogging and creating content relating to healthy relationships and mental health.
Liverpool Learning Partnership (LLP) now has its own YouTube channel featuring mental health livestream sessions, video workshops and much more!
With children and young people returning back to school this week, Jackie Lunt Clinical Lead for Sefton MHST shares some advice for parents and carers.
February is LGBT+ History Month and this year’s theme is Body, Mind and Spirit. To celebrate LGBT+ History Month, National Museums Liverpool are linking with YPAS’s GYRO team to put on a special series of workshops for LGBQ+ Youth aged 12-25years.
Find out what’s happening in Liverpool during Children’s Mental Health Week and how can you get involved.
