In Singapore and much of Asia, mental health support still carries a certain stiffness. It can feel clinical, distant, or simply not built for the way young people actually communicate. At GRIP Connect, we've spent the past years trying to close that gap, using the stories, games, anime, and cultures that youth already care about as a way in. This has taken many forms: manga journalling workshops, gaming competitions, anti-scam education for families and seniors, and AI liter

You think scams only happen to careless people, think again. In Singapore, students, working adults, gamers, concert fans, and even tech-savvy professionals are getting scammed every day. Not because they are stupid, but because scams don’t attack intelligence. They attack emotions. A teen loses a Roblox account to someone they trusted in-game. A young professional misses a long-awaited concert after buying fake tickets from a Telegram seller. Someone downloads a “video chat

Article on how scams affect mental health and what we can do. If it feels like every other day someone is getting scammed in Singapore, it’s not your imagination. According to the Singapore Police Force, people here lost about S$1.1 billion to scams in 2024 , a jump of around 70% from 2023, with more than 51,000 scam cases reported in that year alone. Another report found that 65% of Singaporeans encounter scam attempts at least once a month , and more than half say they’r