PROJECT UPDATE 2012
- The project continues to provide individually tailored support packages to beneficiaries. Each Beneficiary completes an action plan which sets out the goals they wish to achieve and a pathway for completion. As the support provided is long term, many beneficiaries have been receiving support from the start of this project. However, five new beneficiaries have recently joined the project.
- In the last couple of months seven beneficiaries have joined accredited ‘in house’ confidence courses, 11 new work placements have been started and four beneficiaries have enrolled on college courses.
- Some younger clients have been involved in purposely designed activities to address their needs, others have benefited from intensive volunteer input and gardening and woodworking opportunities.
- As part of an exit strategy, an open session was held for clients to raise any questions they had, to complete paperwork and to reflect on their achievements, whilst enjoying mince pies and Christmas festivities!

CHAPTER works to help people who have, or have had, mental health problems, and who are disadvantaged in the jobs market. To achieve this, CHAPTER: assists participants to prepare themselves for job readiness through assessment and personal development programmes to assist in the acquisition of the soft skills necessary to help combat stigma and social exclusion; seeks out relevant educational opportunities in basic and wider skills; offers a programme of targeted learning, individually, and in groups, which is accredited by the National Open College Network; encourages positive actions by employers in favour of people who have had, or continue to have, mental health problems; negotiates work experience placements; uses job training schemes; Provide voluntary work experience. The project focuses primarily on interventions to prepare beneficiaries for employment but beneficiaries will have access to the full range of programmes CHAPTER offers, including the 'Gardening Project' (service to local elderly and disabled people), which provides a venue for supervised work placements.