Youth advice and counselling services are rooted in their local communities, providing holistic, easily accessible support on a wide range of issues for young people aged 11-25. They are open-access hubs that come in all shapes and sizes because they are responsive to their communities' needs.
Our members services are:
- Effective: Comparable clinical outcomes to CAMHS and schools-based counselling
- Open-access: Young people are never turned away because they are “not sick enough”
- Wider reaching: Better reach to young people from least-heard and worst-served backgrounds who may otherwise slip through the cracks of statutory services and school settings
- A bridge, not a cliff edge: Support up to age 25, bridging the all-important transition into adulthood
- What young people want: Young people repeatedly tell us that they want ‘whole life’ support
Hear first-hand from some of the young people who have benefitted from their local service when statutory support was not accessible:
Our role at Youth Access is to support our members services by advocating for policy change (so that every young person has access to a local service), facilitating collaboration, developing and disseminating evidence, training and guidance, and championing young people's voices.
