YCSA Healthy Young Minds (360G-CR-4406517)

The project will work in South Glasgow with BAME/asylum/refugee young people aged 10 -16. Schools have identified people in need of support with mental health issues, with the needs often compounded by barriers to accessing services, poverty and lack of understanding. The project will provide counselling, play/art therapy and groupwork for young people as well as offering counselling for parents. The project will also do some whole class work in schools addressing stigma. It will therefore improve the mental health and resilience of individuals and tackle stigma and discrimination in the community. The grant will pay for therapists, resources and an external evaluation.