Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Eaton Road, Liverpool L12 2AP
Comics Youth was founded in 2015 and is a creative community organisation led by young people, for young people. Our aim is to empower youth across Merseyside to flourish from the margins of society: Harnessing their own narratives, finding confidence within an inclusive community, and developing the resilience to succeed on their own path.
The Graphic Medicine Project is a ground-breaking Partnership between Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Comics Youth CIC that aims to raise awareness of Graphic Medicine as an interdisciplinary practice through the development of young person-friendly health information and health education resources via the medium of comics and zines. On an operational level, Graphic Medicine delivers a range of autobiographical narrative sessions for chronically and terminally ill children and young people aged 8-18 based within wards and inpatient settings at Alder Hey, with the aim of capturing patient stories.
By delivering creative comics-based workshops for young people at bedside or in group settings, we aim to establish a better quality of life for patients whilst in the hospital by addressing some of the underlying issues associated with long-term hospital stays such as isolation, anxiety, and depression. It also supports children and young people to develop new skills in visual literacy, story-telling and graphic design as well as transferable skills and life experiences such as decision-making and creative expression, which will support both their immediate wellbeing and also their future education and development.
For chronically and terminally ill children and young people aged 8-18 based within wards and inpatient settings at Alder Hey
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Eaton Road, Liverpool L12 2AP
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