The Liverpool CAMHS Partnership had adapted as coronavirus impacts our everyday lives. Our partners are working hard to ensure children, young people and families get the support they need during this time.
From April 1, the Seedlings Project will delivered by YPAS. Based on the extensive track record of delivering mental health services to Liverpool’s children, young people and families YPAS will be the sole provider of the Seedlings Project.
Who loves a good challenge? The RAISE mental health promotion team are calling out for children and young people to take part in their Resilience Challenge.
The RAISE mental health promotion team are calling out for children and young people to take part in their Resilience Challenge.
The Liverpool Learning Partnership (LLP), Mental Health Support Teams and the Whole School Approach Partnership have put together a short booklet to support families at home and encourage them to think about their emotional wellbeing during this time.
In honour of LGBT History Month 2020, the young people of GYRO (YPAS’s LGBTQ+ Youth Group) curated a mini pop display in the education room at the International Slavery Museum. The theme for LGBT+ History Month 2020 is Poetry, Prose and Plays. GYRO young people focused their display on LGBT+ people of colour who have […]
Our Ticket To Pride campaign is a North West-wide arts-based campaign challenging LGBT-phobic hate crime on public transport. Vast numbers of people across our country use our public transport systems to go about daily business but, for some, this can be an unsafe and challenging part of what should be a standard routine. British Transport […]
On World Book Day 5th March schools across the city will be dropping everything and reading at 10 am to showcase the importance of reading for enjoyment. This Drop Everything and Read session is part of the Liverpool Readathon, a citywide sponsored read with the aim of encouraging children to read for pleasure and to […]
Children and young people from across Liverpool will come together to perform in the city’s fifth annual NOW Festival next month (February).
Primary school staff in Merseyside are invited to take part in a new series of ROAR courses that will run from January to March 2020 in Liverpool, Sefton, Wirral, St Helens and Knowsley.
“Masquerade: Discover Your Other” –was a fabulous exhibition over at the Tate Exchange Liverpool that our young people from GYRO have been working on.
Professionals working with families in Merseyside are invited to take part in a new series of Youth Connect 5 (YC5) courses that will run from December to March 2020.
Bullybusters are inviting children and young people and their work colleagues to join them in wearing odd socks to celebrate Anti-Bullying week, which runs from the 11-15th November.
YPAS is a Liverpool based children and young peoples mental health charity. Established in 1966; our YIAC (Youth, Information, Advice and Counselling) model provides a wide range of support and therapeutic interventions to address the mental health and emotional wellbeing needs of children, young people and families.
October saw the launch of our citywide Whole School Approach to mental health schools’ pathway for secondary and primary schools.
Over three hundred teachers, headteachers and school governors from across Liverpool attended the city’s first education-focused mental health conference at ACC Liverpool on Friday (October 18).
XenZone, a digital mental health pioneer, has been commissioned by Liverpool NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to provide its popular Kooth mental health and emotional wellbeing support service to all 14-25-year-olds in Liverpool. Kooth will be closely integrated with the Liverpool CAMHS Partners (Alder Hey, Mersey Care, YPAS, MYA, PSS, Barnardos Young Carers, Bullybusters, ADHD […]
Over 100 Liverpool schools participated in The Neurodiversity Umbrella Project which celebrates the intelligence, ability and employability of all young people.
Merseyside Association of Family Therapy presents Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): systemic understandings and responses An outline of the original ACE study will be presented, explored and discussed. This will lead on to consider the biology of the stress response. We will look at what is ‘trauma’ and how it impacts on our physical and mental […]
Liverpool has secured funding for children and young people’s mental health, as part of the next wave of funding from a national trailblazer programme.