Welcome To Create Your Dream
We are Personal Wellbeing Practitioners offering personalised wellbeing coaching and future planning support to young people aged 15–25 across Scotland. Through our work, we have identified a significant gap in support for young people who are transitioning from school to post-school life and who may feel uncertain, overwhelmed, or lack clear direction for their future. We also support young people who have already left school and continue to struggle to engage in positive opportunities, employment, or meaningful activity.
We work with young people from both mainstream and additional support needs schools, from S4 to S6, providing dedicated time and space to explore their strengths, interests, aspirations, and wellbeing needs. Through person-centred coaching and planning, we help young people build confidence, resilience, motivation, and realistic goals that support a positive transition into adulthood.
Our approach is creative, flexible, and tailored to each individual. We empower young people to make informed choices that reflect their abilities, preferences, and ambitions, while promoting positive mental wellbeing and self-belief. We also advocate alongside young people, helping to challenge barriers, raise aspirations, and ensure they feel heard, valued, and supported in shaping their own futures.
Empowering Your Journey to Success
We provide person-led wellbeing coaching and person-centred planning support that is tailored to the individual needs, strengths, aspirations, and circumstances of each young person. Our approach empowers young people to take an active role in shaping their own future, supporting them to identify goals, build confidence, improve wellbeing, and explore positive pathways into adulthood. We work alongside young people at their own pace, offering encouragement, practical guidance, advocacy, and structured support to help them overcome barriers, make informed decisions, develop resilience, and work towards meaningful outcomes that reflect their personal ambitions, interests, and abilities.
“Before I got support, I felt completely stuck and didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. Having someone who listened to me, believed in me, and helped me make a plan gave me confidence I never had before. For the first time, I feel positive about my future.” – Karen, Social Sciences Student (after CYD support).
How Create Your Dream Works
Initial meetings, where appropriate, involve parents, carers, guidance or pastoral care teachers, or other relevant professionals, to help identify the level and type of support each young person would benefit from through personalised wellbeing coaching and person-led planning.
Sessions last up to two hours, depending on the individual’s ability to participate and engage. At the end of each session, the young person is supported to identify at least one achievable action or task to work towards before their next session, encouraging ownership, confidence, and self-directed progress.
By the end of their support, each young person will have developed a personalised plan that reflects their strengths, goals, aspirations, and support needs, alongside practical strategies that enable them to continue making positive choices, setting achievable goals, and planning confidently for their future.
Create Your Dream’s programme offers high-quality, bespoke, individualised support that promotes positive change, personal development, resilience, wellbeing, and forward-planning skills. We also provide follow-on support and guidance for up to one year to help sustain progress and positive outcomes.
Through our work with young people, we have also recognised the significant pressures many parents and carers face, particularly around financial stress and uncertainty. As an organic progression of our person-led support, we now also provide Financial Wellbeing support for parents and carers, helping families to access guidance, improve financial confidence, reduce stress, and create more stable and supportive home environments for young people.
Create Your Dream practitioners have extensive experience supporting individuals furthest removed from the jobs market and have worked across the charity, private, and public sectors as trainers, mentors, coaches, and wellbeing practitioners. Our team hold relevant postgraduate qualifications alongside a wide range of specialist training and experience within this field.
“Before receiving support, I was constantly worried about money and the impact it was having on our family. The Financial Wellbeing support helped me understand what help was available, manage things more confidently, and reduce a huge amount of stress. It has made a real difference to our home life and allowed me to better support my child moving forward.” – Parent Supported Through Our Financial Wellbeing Service
CYD works collaboratively with a wide range of partner agencies and community organisations across local areas to identify and support young people who would benefit from personalised wellbeing coaching, person-led planning, and transition support. We take a holistic, multi-agency, and multidisciplinary approach, recognising the importance of partnership working in achieving the best possible outcomes for young people and their families. We work closely alongside schools, further and higher education establishments, voluntary and third sector organisations, Social Security Scotland, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Skills Development Scotland (SDS), Social Work Services, No One Left Behind local authority programmes, Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCP), money and financial wellbeing advice services, Citizens Advice, Community Learning and Development teams, training providers, the Independent Living Fund, and employers. We believe it is essential that young people are supported through strong partnership working, with agencies sharing knowledge, guidance, and expertise to ensure individuals receive coordinated and appropriate support around their wellbeing, education, employability, financial wellbeing, and future planning needs. By involving partners throughout a young person’s journey, CYD helps create consistent, joined-up support that reduces barriers, improves engagement, and increases opportunities for positive progression and long-term outcomes. As part of our person-led approach, CYD also welcomes self-referrals from young people, parents, carers, and families seeking support to improve wellbeing, build confidence, and create positive plans for the future.
Create Your Dream also supports young people who have experienced significant life challenges that can impact their confidence, wellbeing, decision-making, and ability to progress towards positive futures. These experiences can often create long-term barriers, and many young people may be affected by multiple issues at the same time, resulting in a cumulative impact on their ability to achieve their goals, aspirations, and potential. Through our person-led wellbeing coaching and planning support, we work alongside young people to help them build resilience, improve confidence, identify realistic pathways forward, and develop the skills and strategies needed to make positive life choices. Where specialist support needs are identified, CYD works closely with appropriate partner agencies to ensure young people and families receive the additional support they require. This may include support relating to qualifications, employability, work experience, housing, addictions, personal finance, benefit advice, and physical or mental health challenges. As an organic progression of our holistic support model, CYD now also provides Financial Wellbeing support for parents, carers, and families. We recognised through our work that financial stress and uncertainty within the home can significantly affect a young person’s wellbeing, stability, and ability to engage positively in their future. Our Financial Wellbeing support helps families access guidance, improve financial confidence, understand available support, and reduce financial pressures, helping to create stronger and more supportive home environments for young people.
At CYD we Value
CYD Case Study - Bethany
Bethany was referred for Person-centred Planning through The Salvation Army Project, Greenock.
Initial meeting with Bethany and Maureen (CYD Person-centred Planner) took place with her Mum & Dad, (Jill & Darren).
Bethany had such a bad experience throughout school that she left feeling lost and alone. She was bullied at school and this led to her developing extreme social anxiety.
Bethany is an excellent artist and highly creative person. She applied to, and was accepted, to go to Dundee University to study Art. Her ultimate dream though was to be a Tattoo Artist.
Through Person-centred Planning Bethany was able to explore this dream and plan out how she could achieve this through setting herself clear goals and actions.
Bethany was was also supported to access the Independent Living Fund’s Transition Fund to purchase an iPad, Tattoo training courses & art materials.
Bethany has now got a part-time job as a Tattoo Artist as well as studying. She has achieved her dream of becoming a Tattoo Artist within a very short space of time and says it’s all down to her Person-centred Planning support, and from following her plan that was mapped out during this process.
Quote from Bethany written to Maureen: "I've completed my tattoo course; I've got my certificate, and some evidence of my work from the course. I just wanted to let you know that the woman who mentored me offered me a place in her studio! Once I get a machine etc, I'll start. I just wanted to let you know as your Person-centred Planning support has really helped me. Can't thank you enough. I'll soon be able to start working in my dream job!"
Personal Wellbeing Coaching and Planning
CYD’s Personal Wellbeing Coaching and Planning is a person-led support service helping young people aged 15–25 build confidence, improve well-being, and plan positively for their future. We provide tailored one-to-one support that helps young people identify goals, overcome barriers, and develop resilience, independence, and life skills. Our approach is flexible, compassionate, and centred around each young person’s strengths, aspirations, and individual needs. We also work collaboratively with families and partner agencies to provide holistic support and improve long-term outcomes for young people.
Financial Wellbeing Information & Guidance
“I have much more financial security now thanks to the team at CYD. They supported me through the process and helped me access the right support for my family. The person who helped me at the DWP was also so kind, understanding, and knowledgeable, which made a really stressful situation much easier to manage.”
“Going along to meetings with my daughter has helped me and my family become much more financially secure. The team at CYD took the time to explain what support was available and gave us advice that was easy to understand and follow. Because of their support, we are now better off financially and feel far less stressed about the future.”
“I always assumed that because I was working, I wouldn’t be entitled to any financial support. Through CYD’s Financial Wellbeing support, I learned that I could apply for Universal Credit, which has made a huge difference to our family finances. I feel far more financially secure now and much less worried about managing day-to-day costs. The support and guidance I received were invaluable.”
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Thank you to The Robertson Trust for contributing to making Create Your Dream a success!
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