Hidden in Plain Sight aims to raise awareness about the life changing impact caused by alcohol misuse. Shaped by lived experience the campaign highlights the stark realities of alcohol addiction with an emphasis on promoting the critical need for individuals to access professional alcohol services. Our lived experience coproduced campaign aims to challenge, educate, and inspire individuals to make positive changes in their lives.
The campaign was created for #AlcoholAwarenessWeek and includes a spoken word poem written by volunteers to highlight the carnage and cost of addiction and to promote the power and impact of recovery. Performed by Kritikal Powers with chorus and music written and performed by Jake Mattison. Produced by Inspired Youth in Partnership with Change Grow Live and Inspire Eas
Our mission is to help people ...Change Grow Live is a voluntary sector organisation specialising in substance misuse and criminal justice intervention projects in England and Wales.
Our mission is to help people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
All of its funding is statutory-based. As of 2012 the organisation employed over 1,800 workers and was supported by over 250 volunteers. Co-production is part of the ethos of cgl which is working together in the belief that people who have experience of a problem should be involved in creating the solutions to those issues.
Please click the link below to see our first 30 second film consisting of photographs set to a colourful background. This inspired our group to enjoy the simplicity of this kind of editing. Service users and service providers joined in the experience developing a new dynamic. Engaging with each other in a piece of co-production enhanced our relationship with each other and used as a springboard of authentic treatment.
We align with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
