• Comics Youth CIC delivers comics-based literacy, publishing and wellbeing projects to young people in Merseyside.
  
  
• Sessions support young people to take ownership of their own narratives by embedding opportunities for self-expression via publishing zines and comics.

• Comics reach people from diverse backgrounds who don’t engage with other services.
  
  
• It works with CAMHS to offer preventative community support as an intermediate measure for young people on the CAMHS waiting list.

• It has plans to expand its model into other areas of the UK and is already working with partners in Dundee and London. 
  
  
• Chimo has funded the appointment of a Development Director who will lead the development of the branch model.

Visit: comicsyouth.co.uk