 I'm Plyg Wolffendale and I'm the Chief Executive of CHICE which is an agency based in North Wales supporting people with drug and alcohol, mental health and employment problems. I'm here today because CHICE together with its partners from the Drug and Alcohol Charities Wales Consortium and with Havel and Remploy have been successful in being awarded part of the All Wales Out of Work service which is now called Cover the Cymru from our point of view, to deliver for people who are having trouble getting into work and finding life skills because of disadvantages, giving them the opportunity of getting into work. This is a scheme which has been developed with the backing of European funding and with the support of the Welsh Government has been commissioned in the past 12 months to support a cohort of individuals who historically have proved difficult to reach in terms of achieving a prosperous outcome on their place in society. What I think is really special about this programme is that it gives individuals the opportunity to show what they can do, to show the skills they have, the potential and for full all that promise that maybe was lost early in life. It also gives the opportunity to say to society that people who have suffered sometimes for many years from drug and alcohol problems and mental health issues can recover and can make a positive contribution to society. So through training, volunteering and ultimately work all that investment can be repaid. My name is John Lowe and I work for a charity called Global and I'm the head of services and programme manager for the Out of Work service. I think the Out of Work service is a heavy mentoring focus. I think it's the mentoring aspect of services that have really made it what it is. We've had experience of that from the last P Mentoring project. We saw people make really significant and really huge life changes when we applied a mentoring function to services that already existed. What this project realises and operates under the caveat of is that there are a lot of services out there for people, there are a lot of opportunities out there for people. What mentorship provides you is that kind of help and navigation and kind of one-on-one support with individuals to really kind of make the most of the gains that they've already kind of made through treatment services, through support services, through recovery services and kind of navigate their way back into routine society really. Sometimes that's really scary for people, some people don't quite know what that means or what that feels like and using a mentor who's had similar experiences and has made that transition and has kind of covered that journey themselves is a huge help really to individuals who may struggle kind of identifying what that is. What we found on the last project was a lot of people really didn't know what life after treatment really, really could look like. That experience had been very limited and working with a mentor really kind of showed people the potential really of their lives and the capacity they had within them to kind of achieve what they wanted to. The service this time I think starts off on the back of the previous pre-mentoring project which at the end was very, very successful. I think that mental health and substance misuse services are working strongly now towards recovery and as part of the recovery agenda for Wales. I think the mentoring project kind of takes that kind of even further again so rather than individuals identifying themselves as substance misuses or as people with mental health issues or as service users or even as people in recovery people are just starting to identify themselves as people now and kind of really moving on and really leaving behind where they once were and feeling that they can be and are becoming contributing members of society.