Profiles of Members
Each Youth Access member agency is unique and provides individual services to meet local young people's needs. Here you can read about Youth Access member agencies in action.
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Member Profile: Off Centre
11 November, 2011
Get help or support, get info or advice, get involved Background Off Centre supports the mental health and wellbeing needs of young people aged 11-25 in Hackney and surrounding boroughs.
Member Profile: Barnabas Housing Association
18 September, 2011
Background Barnabas Housing Association is celebrating 25 years in operation this year.
Member Profile: Bucks Youth Counselling Alliance (BYCA)
21 July, 2011
A New Partnership Celebrating 30 Years of Outstanding Delivery in Buckinghamshire.
Member Profile: SOLVE IT
09 June, 2011
SOLVE IT provides a unique holistic and specialist service tackling all issues in relation to Volatile Substance Abuse.
Member Profile: The Young People's Centre, Brighton and Hove
14 February, 2011
The Young People's Centre has its origins in a meeting that took place in the summer of 1982 in which fifteen people met for a conference on the increasing needs of young people and young adults in Brighton and Hove.
Member Profile: Camden Under 25s Advice Centre Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
03 November, 2010
Camden Under 25s Advice Centre is a London Borough of Camden service and part of the Integrated Youth Support Service.
Member Profile: The Matthew Project Under 18 Service, a new Norfolk based drug and alcohol service
08 September, 2010
The Matthew Project Under18 Service is a multi-agency team which has been running since October 2009.
Member Profile: The Beck, a new service for 13 to 19s in East Leeds
14 July, 2010
The Beck was launched in October 2009 with funding from the Youth Sector Development Fund, phase 2.
Member Profile: One Stop Shop, Coventry - 'invaluable'
09 March, 2010
The One Stop Shop has been providing information, advice, counselling, sexual health services and other support since November 2000.
Member Profile: The Bridge Doncaster - 'a great place to come'
19 January, 2010
The Bridge has been offering information, advice, counselling and other support to the young people of Doncaster since November 2005.
Member Profile: The Market Place, Leeds
08 October, 2009
The Market Place is 'a benchmark of excellence' - Sir Al Aynsley-Green, Children's Commissioner for England 2009.
Member Profile: Young Devon
13 July, 2009
Who are Young Devon? Young Devon (Formerly Devon Youth Association) is a charity that was established in 1949 to support and deliver services to young people living in Devon.
Member Profile: Streetwise, Newcastle
08 April, 2009
18 years of Streetwise services Streetwise Young Peoples Project is based in Newcastle upon Tyne's city centre and was established in 1991 in response to the health needs of homeless young people in the city.
Member profile: MAP, Norwich
06 March, 2009
MAP: safety, uncertainty and showing young people the way Behind Norwich’s historic buildings, leafy avenues and ordered lives, 30% of the city’s young people are living below the poverty threshold (on means tested benefits), significantly less likely to leave full time education with even adequate exam results.
Member profile: 42nd St, Manchester
10 February, 2009
How does Manchester’s 42nd St provide therapeutic mental health and other support services to over 700 new referrals per year, whilst finding time to develop a highly rated online selfharm resource, AND keeping young people’s voices at the heart of its work? Read a profile of this outstanding Youth Access member: The 42nd St mission Since 1980 42nd Street has been providing services to young people under stress in: Manchester Salford Trafford And some projects have a national reach.
