Parents Health and Wellbeing Group YPAS South Hub

20 July 2018

Over the last 10 weeks, YPAS South Hub has been working alongside a local therapist, Paul Mc David, and The Community Health Ambassador Team. Delivering  Chi Gong, Mindfulness, tapping and meditation sessions, helping parents to learn more about themselves as a person not just a parent and partner, how to relax and different techniques to […]

Parents Health Morning YPAS North Hub

20 July 2018

On 11th July at YPAS North Hub, YPAS and The Community Health Ambassador Team worked together to organise a community health morning for parents. It was well attended, with all parents benefiting from gaining lots of information.

YPAS children attend Brouhaha Liverpool with Movema dance

20 July 2018

Over the last several weeks, children from YPAS’s Smarty’s groups have been practising and preparing for their dance performance with Movema Dance and to be part of The Brouhaha Carnival. The Brouhaha Carnival is focused on celebrating Diversity and widening participation within the arts, through creativity and dance.

YPAS – North West in Bloom

25 June 2018

Working with the support of Nick Small and Catherine Morton from the local council, Steve Parry from ION Developments and Shaun Boylan; Senior Project Manager | Northern | Construction | ISG, the young people attached to SKY Central have been working hard doing woodwork sessions, painting sessions and planning sessions to pull together the YPAS entry […]

YPAS Art Activist Awards Success

22 May 2018

On Saturday 12th May, Tuesday GYRO (12-16-year-olds) LGBTQ+ Youth and allies travelled to Manchester to attend the Art Activist competition hosted by The Proud Trust. This was a regional LGBTQ+ youth activist project that had young people from all over the North West descent upon Manchester to perform, display, act out their entries.

Young people’s mental health creative arts project at Tate Liverpool.

22 May 2018

Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has unveiled a new creative arts project at Tate Liverpool, that explores young people’s thoughts and feelings in relation to mental health in education.

YPAS – service users, we want your views.

1 May 2018

As part of Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group’s commitment to understanding which services work well, we have joined up with local universities to do some evaluation projects.  This is called the Partner Priority Programme which is part of the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC).  One of these evaluation projects is to […]

Young adult carer speaks to a Parliamentary Committee

30 April 2018

A young adult carer, Katie O’Shaughnessy, from the Barnardo’s Liverpool Young Adult Carers service has spoken to a Parliamentary Committee about her experiences of balancing caring responsibilities with work and university.