A community that shows up,
and keeps showing up
Perth is a town that shapes you and then, more often than not, sends you somewhere else. Each summer, thousands of young people finish school and face a threshold moment: a college place in Dundee, an apprenticeship in Glasgow, a first flat, a first payslip, a first time navigating the GP register or the benefits system without a parent standing beside them.
Vibrant Health Advocates – Gamma was founded because that threshold can be the loneliest place a young person ever stands. Since our earliest workshops in local secondary schools, we have worked alongside young people aged 15 to 19 to build the mental-wellbeing literacy and practical self-care skills that formal education rarely finds time for.
We do not use jargon, we do not lecture, and we do not pretend that growing up is simple. We sit beside young people, share tools that actually work in a messy real life, and make sure they know where to turn when things get hard — in Perth, and far beyond it.
Our story
Near-peer mentoring on the streets of Perth
