Comics Youth
- Comics Youth CIC delivers comics-based literacy, publishing and wellbeing projects to young people in Merseyside
- Sessions support YP to take ownership of their own narratives by embedding opportunities for self-expression via publishing zines and comics
- Work with CAMHS to offer preventative community support as an intermediate measure for YP on the CAMHS waiting list
- Deliver 1-1 comic book graphic narrative sessions for young people within long stay wards at Alder Hey Children’s hospital
- Developing operations manual of their mental health based work using graphic medicine
- Plan to expand model into other regions including Dundee, Manchester, London, Birmingham and Bristol
- Chimo is funding the appointment of a Development Manager who will lead the development of the branch model
Visit: comicsyouth.co.uk
* Winners *
Mental Health Intervention of the Year, CYP Now Awards 2019
Mental Health Intervention of the Year, CYP Now Awards 2019