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News > Working With Children > 2025

News - Working With Children - 2025

NOW Festival celebrates ten years

9 February 2025

More than 300 children and young people from across Merseyside recently graced the stage of St George’s Hall Concert Room for Liverpool’s tenth annual NOW Festival. Over three evenings, audiences were treated to powerful performances revisiting themes from previous years, including education, violence prevention, belonging, and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), all through a mental health […]

How We Built Our Village: The Power of Co-production

13 January 2025

Co-production and peer support have the power to transform how people experience mental health and social care services – and how providers deliver them. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and that’s exactly how the parents who use PSS’s Parent-Baby Service feel about the mental health and wellbeing support they’re given […]

As we come to the end of another Children’s Ment

As we come to the end of another Children’s Mental Health Week, it’s time to reflect on another amazing #NOWFestLiv 🤩

Three nights of incredibly powerful, thought-provoking performances about issues that matter to children and young people through a mental health lens. NOW Fest is an amazing platform that amplifies their voices and aims to bring impactful change in Liverpool.

Well done to everyone involved; the @myaraiseteam for producing and organising, the partners for supporting @growing.stronger.liverpool @llpartnership @merseysidevrp and of course the incredible children, young people and the wonderful staff for their support.

Here’s to another ten years! 🙌🏻🤩🎶🎤🎭🎬

#CMHW #CMHW25 #MentalHealth #childrensmentalhealth

📷 @dave_brownlee

Our bitesize training programme tackles important

Our bitesize training programme tackles important issues, such as understanding the reasons young people self-harm & positive strategies to use with those who self-harm.

Book your place now; link in bio.

📆19/02/2025
🕑 12pm - 1pm

#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.

We have two bitesize courses that tackle important

We have two bitesize courses that tackle important issues around Body Image and Eating Disorders. Both are one hour long and free for parents, carers and professionals.

Our body image course takes place 18/02/25 at 9:30 am - 10:30 am

book through the link in bio.

We support the asks of the #FutureMindsCampaign:

We support the asks of the #FutureMindsCampaign:
👉 Investment in children and young people's mental health
👉 Full rollout of Mental Health Support Teams
👉Open access to mental health services
👉A CYP workforce plan
👉A review into the causes of the crisis
👉 Council funding
The decline in young people's mental health is unacceptable. It's one of the biggest health, social and economic challenges of our time.

That's why we're supporting the #FutureMindsCampaign to call for immediate and scalable action.

Read the report - link in bio.
https://cypmhc.org.uk/publications/future-minds-campaign