Bounce Back – a fun game exploring resilience with children

25 August 2017

Introducing ‘Bounce Back’ – a brand new, original card game developed by the RAISE (Mental Health Promotion) team at Merseyside Youth Association.  “Bounce Back’ enables you to explore Resilience with children and young people in a fun and interactive way.  Based on the Resilience Framework, it has been developed using evidence-based research conducted by Professor […]

NOW Festival 2018

25 August 2017

Would your young people like the opportunity to: Perform at a professional venue? Attend two free workshops with arts industry professionals? Create a performance/short film that is well-informed and will impact their peers?

FRESH CAMHS at Alder Hey seeks parents/carers to spread the word

27 July 2017

The FRESH+ Forum – A Parent Drop-in Support Group FRESH+ is a group of parents and carers of children and young people who have accessed or who are accessing Alder Hey Fresh CAMHS.  The group has been meeting monthly since May 2016 on a voluntary basis and following having shared their stories, CAMHS related challenges and […]

Community-based Child Adolescent Mental Health Services hub opens in Croxteth

27 July 2017

Our latest community-based mental health and emotional wellbeing hub for children and young people has opened in Croxteth. Liverpool’s world boxing champion Tony Bellew and Metro Mayor, Steve Rotheram attended the opening ceremony of the Young Person’s Advisory Service (YPAS) Plus Community Hub; the latest addition to the Liverpool Child Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) […]

GYRO has been shortlisted for the UK’s Largest Diversity Awards.

27 July 2017

YPAS  LGBT+ Support Services have been shortlisted for the “Community Organisation Award for LGBT” at the National Diversity Awards 2017. Charities and role models from across the UK will gather at the breathtaking Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool on September 8th 2017 for the UK’s largest celebration of diversity. The best of British diversity will travel to Liverpool to showcase […]

Volunteer Counsellor/Psychological Therapist Opportunity

27 July 2017

 Are you a qualified counsellor/psychological therapist with experience of working therapeutically with children and young people? Would you like the opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team working with children young people and families? Can you offer one day or more per week?  

OURARTS – Our Rights Art @TATE Liverpool

25 May 2017

From June 14th – 18th @TATE Liverpool, young people from across the city will be hosting ‘OURARTS – Our Rights Art’ – an exhibition on Mental Health and The Rights of Young People. Over the past year, these young people have taken part in various campaigns and workshops to discuss their rights and the impact they have on youth mental […]

Improving young people’s transition journey from CAMHS to Adult Services (AMHS)

24 May 2017

    Alder Hey and Mersey Care have signed up to the Transition National CQUIN WHAT? What does this mean? Alder Hey and Mersey Care will improve all young people’s transition journey from CAMHS to Adult Services (AMHS) WHY? Why is it needed? Nationally CAMHS to AMHS transitions are generally poorly planned, poorly executed and poorly […]

YPAS is awarded CORC Accreditation in outcome and feedback measurement.

9 April 2017

We are proud to announce YPAS has become among the first few services in the UK to receive the Accreditation in Outcome and Feedback Measurement.

Fresh CAMHS at Alder Hey announce first conference

4 April 2017

The Fresh CAMHS team invite all professionals working with young people aged 0-25  to a one-day conference 5th May, at Alder Hey Hospital.

YPAS Plus – North Liverpool Community Hub has the green light

4 April 2017

A fantastic start to the year for YPAS and the Liverpool CAMHS Partnership as we have officially signed on the dotted line for our second community hub, staff will begin to move in to the hub week commencing 27th March for phase one of the new developments.

YPAS Plus Community Hub Open Days Success

26 February 2017

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

YPAS Plus Community Hub Official Launch

20 February 2017

Liverpool’s south community-based mental health and emotional wellbeing hub officially opened on February 2, in Childwall. The hub was offically opened by Luciana Berger MP.

2017 NOW Festival huge success

10 February 2017

Hundreds of young people performed at the Epstein in Liverpool’s second children’s mental health-focused NOW Festival this week.

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

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.