Healthy Young Minds
Healthy Young Minds is a project organised by YCSA and funded by Comic Relief. The project is aimed at promoting mental health and resilience, by providing art therapy and groupwork in partner schools and from our offices. A particular emphasis will be placed on transitions from Primary to Secondary school & tackling discrimination by celebrating the right to be different.
Healthy Young Minds works with Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) young people, including asylum/refugee and new migrants, aged 7-25 in Govanhill and Pollokshields.
Healthy Young Minds also offers therapeutic support to parents and carers of BME young people in that age range.
For BME young people, including asylum/refugee and new migrants aged 7-25
Book an appointment:
0141 390 4799
enquiries@ycsa.org.uk
Art therapy for BME young people: 50-minute-long weekly sessions usually for the length of a term.
Art therapy support for parents / carers of BME young people: please contact the school or if preferred YCSA directly.
Groupwork with schools for teachers and the whole class
Art therapy offers a protected and caring space for you to express what you experience and affects your life using both words and art materials. You don’t have to be “good” at painting or drawing, art therapy is about expressing and communicating through playful making what is sometimes difficult to say with words. You will decide together with the art therapist what the focus of the sessions will be and overall art therapy will aim to help you nurture the relationship with yourself and others.
BME young people
Art therapy for BME young people: 50-minute-long weekly sessions usually for the length of a term; the sessions will be confidential whilst safeguarding concerns will be communicated appropriately; information will be protected according to Data Protection policies; the art made will be stored safely and confidentially. Referrals can also be made directly to YCSA.
Support for parents / carers
Art therapy support for parents / carers of BME young people: please contact the school or if preferred YCSA directly.
Groupwork
Groupwork with schools for teachers and the whole class: techniques from art therapy will be used to discuss issues around racism, difference and discrimination, as well as ideas of empowerment and the right to be different.