Right Here promotes awareness of young people’s resilience and mental well being, and improve local services.

Sussex Central YMCA and MIND in Brighton & Hove, in partnership with The Children and Young Peoples Trust, run the Right Here Project. Right Here works with young people to promote emotional health and wellbeing through a mix of awareness raising campaigns and building individual resilience through peer support and activity programmes.

Through consultation and project development young people from Brighton & Hove have worked with the partner organisations to identify how they want to promote mental health and well being.

Right Here offers Resilience-building activities through subsidised access to sports, arts and other recreational activities. Sessions planned for this summer include rambling, rock climbing, self defence, stress management and relaxation, and stand up comedy.

Promotional campaigns work towards de-stigmatising and promoting mental health and well-being in young people. A multi media campaign is aimed at places like colleges, GP’s surgeries, sports centres and also into the night time economy.

Right Here is developing Well-being ‘scripts’ - non-medical prescription-style leaflets for GP’s, Out of Hours Services and A&E staff to hand out to young people as guide to support-services and other ways to stay healthy.

The project will identify Friendly clinical services and produce a kite-mark for young people’s wellbeing and mental health, with the aim of improving the quality of help available in the city.

Young people aged 16-25 are key partners in the Right Here project through the Youth Panel. They can get really involved with the project by attending regular meetings to guide the project, decision making, coming up with new ideas for activities, ongoing consultation, mystery shopping, and planning events.

Service Opening Hours
This service operates 9am-5pm Monday - Friday.

To find out more about the project, contact the Activities Coordinator on 01273 222562 / 07850 500420 or the Campaign Coordinator on 01273 222562 / 07525 667683.

Project Funding
Right Here is part of a national pilot scheme by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and The Mental Health Foundation.

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Launch Poster