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News > 2024 > October

News - October 2024

Opportunities to work with children and young people

30 October 2024

Mental Health Promotion Worker Merseyside Youth Association’s RAISE Team, is looking for a dynamic and dedicated individual to join the team as a Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health Promotion Worker. In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead initiatives that promote mental health awareness and resilience within schools and community settings, focusing […]

REACT: Managing & Decreasing Mental Health Risk

18 October 2024

The RAISE Team is looking for a Liverpool secondary school to participate in a new pilot programme under the REACT series. REACT: Managing & Decreasing Mental Health Risk focuses on managing risk from self-harm and suicide.

YPAS has some exciting job opportunities

12 October 2024

YPAS is seeking to recruit a Seedlings – Children’s Psychological Therapist and a Trainee Parenting Practitioner.

In our bitesize training programme this month, we'

In our bitesize training programme this month, we'll look at understanding and supporting crisis and risk in school. Parents/carers and professionals are all welcome.

Book your place now; link in bio.

📆 10/03/2025
🕑 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

#mentalhealth #childrensmentalhealth #mentalhealthtraining

Members of the Mental Health Support Offer for Liv

Members of the Mental Health Support Offer for Liverpool’s Children & Young People design and deliver an ongoing programme of funded training opportunities.

Underpinned by therapeutic models, this is designed to educate and empower professionals, parents and carers as we strive to improve the knowledge and understanding of mental health among children and young people.

The @MYARAISETeam delivers these bite-size sessions, which can be accessed online and last up to one hour.

Here’s what’s coming up in this month’s programme.

🔗 Follow the link to training in our bio.

In our bitesize training programme this month, we'

In our bitesize training programme this month, we'll look at children in care. Parents/carers and professionals are all welcome

Book your place now; link in bio.

📆 18/03/2025
🕑 10:00 am -11:00 am

#mentalhealth #childrensmentalhealth #mentalhealthtraining

Part of the Growing Stronger Training Offer, deliv

Part of the Growing Stronger Training Offer, delivered by the @myaraiseteam, ACE Leadership is a full-day face-to-face training for managers and leaders within organisations.

It considers ACEs and our response from a systems perspective. You will learn how the elements of the response framework can be utilised to support staff and adapt policies, procedures, and systems to make our organisations more ACE-aware and responsive.

The ACE-Leadership (full-day face-to-face) is for managers and leaders within organisations who:
- Live in Liverpool
- Work in Liverpool; or
- Work in another Local Authority supporting Liverpool residents.

📅 Dates until the end March 2025
🔗 Book via link in bio

Young people may have thoughts of suicide – but

Young people may have thoughts of suicide – but thoughts about suicide do not make it inevitable. A safety plan helps prevent turning these thoughts into actions.

A safety plan focuses on keeping a person safe right now, including what they would do and who might support them in a crisis.

📅13/02/2025
🕐 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
🔗Book through the link in bio.

#MentalHealthTraining #SuicidePrevention #SafetyPlanning #SuicideAwareness