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
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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.
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.
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.
First Take Production Company & MYA trial new approach to child mental health issues
13 July 2015
Merseyside Youth Association (MYA), working in partnership with production company, First Take is trialling a new approach to tackling stigma associated with mental health whilst building resilience in local young people.
HeadMeds giving information about medication
11 May 2015
HeadMeds is a unique website about mental health medication for young people created by YoungMinds. Funded by Comic Relief and the Nominet Trust as part of Innovation Labs which has developed a range of digital projects to improve young people’s mental health.