The youth rights movement starts here…

19 January 2017

Pioneering local charities 42nd Street and YPAS today launch a major initiative aimed at empowering young people to use their rights to address social injustice

Cheshire and Merseyside Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP)

18 December 2016

Plan provides a new vision for long-term sustainable health and care for people across Cheshire and Merseyside

YPAS Plus Community Hub Open Days Success

13 December 2016

Children, young people and their families visited the Young Person’s Advisory Service (YPAS) Plus Community Hub’s open days last week.

YPAS Counsellor smashes fundraising target

10 December 2016

YPAS counsellor Robert Quinn has pushed himself to the limit this year raising £2016 for the Young Person’s Advisory Service.

Innovative project aims to improve wellbeing of city’s primary school pupils

19 October 2016

Thousands of primary schoolchildren in Liverpool will benefit from an innovative new project to help improve their mental health and emotional wellbeing. Seedlings, an early intervention therapeutic service, is being launched by award-winning social enterprise PSS and the Young Person’s Advisory Service.

Liverpool Mental Health Festival – Williamson Sq Event 8th Oct

10 October 2016

Hundreds of conversations around children and young peoples’ mental health took place during the Liverpool Mental Health Festival, organised by the Liverpool Mental Health Consortium and on the 8th Oct at the Williamson Square event, representatives from the partnership engaged with many people of all ages.

Liverpool Pride YPAS Youth Space Success

17 August 2016

YPAS  had over 100 people come through the door for their “Youth Space” event to celebrate Liverpool Pride.

Infant Mental Health Awareness Week

19 July 2016

Many of the UK’s most prominent parenting and children’s organisations joined together to launch the UK’s first national Infant Mental Health Awareness Week from 6th-10th June 2016.  

Nani – Winner of the NOW Festival 2016

29 June 2016

Developed by Broadsquare School, the key themes of this winning act focused on mental health, social media and fitting into a new school when English is not your first language. Click the image to watch the film.

Young Person’s Advisory Service – G-Zine!

9 June 2016

The G-Zine is a new electronic magazine designed, edited and filled with content from the LGBT+ young people who access GYRO and THE Action Youth at YPAS in Liverpool.

YPAS Celebrate 50 years of mental health services for children and young people

1 June 2016

YPAS staff and some members of the CAMHS Partnership didn’t let a bit of rain stop them with a celebratory BBQ and fun and games at Sefton Park all in aid of YPAS’s 50th Birthday Celebrations.

First NOW Festival a huge success

13 February 2016

More than a hundred children and young people from local schools delivered a range of dramatic performances at the Epstein Theatre this week.

Liverpool hosts youth mental health conference

15 December 2015

This animation is the shared stories of young people who are on MYA’s Talent Match Program

Toolkit to help improve children & young people

13 December 2015

YoungMinds and NHS England have today launched a new toolkit to help improve children and young people’s mental health.

Liverpool CAMHS Takeover Day November

7 December 2015

Between 16th – 20th November, young people across the Liverpool CAMHS offer and wider partners took part in a series of takeover events where they worked with other young people, stakeholders, and commissioners to have their say about services available to young people.

Liverpool CAMHS NOW Festival 2016

9 November 2015

NOW Young People’s Arts Festival 2016 – Children’s Mental Health Week 

Liverpool CAMHS celebrates World Mental Health Day

23 October 2015

World Mental Health Day celebrations attracted hundreds of people over the weekend.

Liverpool CAMHS Partnership Art Workshops Summer 2015

9 September 2015

Over summer, young people from across the Liverpool CAMHS Partnership participated in arts workshops with a focus around mental health.

Mindapples Insight report 2015

17 August 2015

The Liverpool CAMHS Offer promote the concept of 5 a day for your mental health, these are the results of 264 people who responded, and with some insight into pupils across schools as to the things they like to do to support their mental health.

Films released to support young people with neurodevelopmental conditions and their families

26 July 2015

A Liverpool-based Community Interest Company has launched an initiative that aims to highlight the issues faced by young people living with neurodevelopmental conditions, as well as the daily impact on them and their families.