What happens when the "troublemaker" and the "misunderstood" stop accepting the scripts they've been handed?

They build something new. BUT this costs a significant amount of money. We have a vision, it's BIG but very necessary.

The ultimate barrier?

Money.

Has it stopped us yet? No- but we the demand for an our service is exceptionally high and to execute our long-term vision and be able to have the impacts we are working towards, we NEED more funding.

We started Flip The Script because we've both lived the same truth from different angles: the system was never built for us, it was built to manage us. Somewhere along the way, we stopped accepting that.

Here's what we know that the textbooks won't tell you:

You aren't "challenging" - the adults around you are challenged by their own inability to ask the right questions. Labels like "at-risk" and "hard to reach" are just fancy ways of saying "we've given up trying to understand."

When the people meant to protect you are the same ones boxing you in? That's not support. That's survival.

The Real Why

We started Flip The Script because someone showed up for us when they didn't have to. Not with pity. Not with judgment. With curiosity. With the audacity to ask WHY instead of slapping on another label and moving on.

Those people - the mentors, the youth workers, the ones who saw potential before or through the storm - they planted seeds nobody else cares to. They watered them even when everyone said it was pointless. They advocated for character when the world only saw chaos.

That- it changed everything.

BUT- here's the thing that keeps us up at night: most young people never get that.

They get interventions instead of conversations. They get acronyms (SYV, CCE, CSE) instead of understanding. They get managed instead of seen. We’ve been these young people.

We've worked inside these systems - youth work, social work, gang intervention, youth justice. We've seen the corruption, the bureaucracy, the way vulnerable young people become case files instead of humans. We've watched young people who just needed someone to ask "what’s really going on?” get criminalised, excluded, and written off.

Enough.

What We're Actually Doing

Flip The Script isn't another intervention program. It's not about "fixing" young people or making them more palatable for systems that were never designed with them in mind.

It's about radical validation. About creating space where young people get to name their own experiences before anyone else defines them. Where being vulnerable isn't weakness - it's power. Where the question isn't "what's wrong with you?" but "what happened, and what do you need?"

We're here to disrupt the narrative that says your past determines your future.

To challenge systems that profit from your failure. To create REAL representation in spaces that claim to serve you but rarely include you.

Because here's what we learned: When you validate your own story, nobody can weaponise it against you. When you understand your WHY, you stop living everyone else's prophecy. When you find people who water your seeds instead of trampling them? You grow in ways nobody thought possible.

This Is For...

Every young person told they're "too much" or "not enough."

Every kid seeking love and belonging in dangerous places because safe ones don't feel accessible.

Every teenager whose behaviour gets judged while their pain gets ignored.

Every young person navigating systems designed to fail them.

Every future change-maker currently labeled a troublemaker.

You're not broken. The system is.

And together? We're going to flip it.