But if it wasn't for a chance meeting with a youth worker as a teenager, he might never have entered the field.
"A youth worker turned my life around," he says. "Because she introduced me to a way of thinking that made me passionate about young people. That's one reason why I believe in peer education, as young people who have had life experience have potential to develop through empathy. Training then turns individual talents into strengths."
With a 6m annual budget and 104 outlets across the city, Birmingham's youth service is certainly a big operation, but Meah is keen to widen its appeal and he sees marketing as key to that.
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