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).
The Young Persons Advisory Service (YPAS) is seeking to recruit: Professionally qualified practitioners Data lead Admin receptionist
Children and young people’s mental health promotion worker Hours: 35 hours per week (will include evening and weekend work) Salary: £23,469 p.a. – £26,769 p.a. – MYA Scale 5 Pt. 17-20 Fixed Term Funded to 31st March 2023 The postholder is responsible for delivering a programme of mental health works across children and young people’s settings, delivering training […]
Merseyside Youth Association’s RAISE Team will be delivering a Youth Connect Five (YC5) aimed at training new trainers. Two-day course: 14th and 15th February 2022, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Location: Merseyside Youth Association Ltd 65-67 Hanover Street Liverpool Book here
The RAISE Team at Merseyside Youth Association is looking for volunteers 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.
The Peer Action Collective (PAC) is a project funded by the Youth Endowment Fund. As the lead organization within the partnership, YPAS will recruit 12 young people (16-20 yrs old) to undertake research with other young people to understand their experiences of violence within their communities and how best to tackle this through social action.
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.
Kooth plc, the nation’s leading digital mental health provider, is running three separate webinars during the month of August to highlight the benefits of Kooth.com and Qwell.io.
As schools, colleges and universities close for the Summer, children and young people, parents and carers will still be able to access support for their mental health and emotional wellbeing. It’s important that families are aware of this support, and how to access it. A number of campaigns have been launched, running throughout the Summer […]
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 […]
YPAS are delighted to receive the Cyber Essentials certification which is an effective, Government-backed scheme that will help protect the organisation against a whole range of the most common cyber-attacks. “Young Persons Advisory Service has successfully gained Cyber Essentials Certification this accreditation corroborates YPAS credentials as a trustworthy service to hold personal data. The accreditation […]
YPAS is delighted to announce that Liverpool Actress; Leanne Best, will be supporting our charity in the capacity of an Ambassador.
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 […]
