CYP Now - NCS partnership to define youth services impact on mental health

The National Citizen Service (NCS) has joined a new partnership which aims to examine the impact of accessing youth provision on young people’s mental health.

The partnership will examine the impact of youth provision on children's mental health. Picture: NCS

The project, known as YES (youth sector enabling social prescribing), also includes StreetGames, the Social Prescribing Youth Network (SPYN) and researchers at University College London (UCL) and will run until November.

It plans to deliver an evidence review which “will inform the scope and design of a new social prescribing pilot, testing the role of youth provision and enrichment activities in supporting mental health among young people”.

Its launch comes as NHS figures show that almost one in four young people aged 17 to 19 and one in five aged 20 to 25 identified as having a probable mental health problem.

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