Comics Youth is a youth-led arts and mental health organisation supporting young people across Merseyside, Dundee, and London.
- Through comics, zines, and visual storytelling, CY provides accessible, non-clinical interventions which support young people to take ownership of their own narratives by embedding opportunities for self-expression.
- CY works with CAMHS to offer preventative community support as an intermediate measure for young people on the CAMHS waiting list and reaches people from diverse backgrounds who don’t engage with other services.
- CY is developing a branch model to take its innovative approach to other regions of the UK starting in Dundee and London.
- Chimo funded the appointment of a Development Director who is leading the development of the branch model.
* Winners * Mental
Health Intervention of
the Year, CYP Now
Awards 2019
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