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As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, we want to shine a light on our wellbeing and counselling services, their positive impact, and our concerns about the significant rise in need for mental health support, and ways to get involved.

Samantha Burton, West Sussex Chaplain, recently attended a spring concert put on by the Crawley Songbirds Choir who sang to raise funds for our Chaplaincy Service.

We are really proud that at the recent national Room for Young People Awards, Joshana Pemberton (they/them) was the winner of the Innovative Action category for their amazing work with YMCA YAC Brighton Food Market.

We are delighted to announce that our YMCA Dialogue Therapeutic & Wellbeing services have passed the 2022 evaluation from BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), with all criteria met.

As YMCA England and Wales's report, Generation Cut, reveals a 73% decline in spending by local authorities for youth services, due to pressures on their central budgets, we speak to two passionate youth workers who share their personal experiences of how youth workers changed and inspired their lives.

YMCA England and Wales have released their annual report on the cuts to Youth Services over the past decade. Generation Cut reveals a 73% decline in spending by local authorities for youth services, due to pressures on their central budgets.

 Worthing Foyer became a vibrant hub earlier this week, thanks to a food demonstration from UK Harvest. 

Our e-wellbeing project partnered with Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network and Unity Insights to deliver the Pan-Sussex Digital Mental Health Communications Training Programme in November 2022.