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We would be able to successfully work with more difficult to reach and engage people with mental health issues in Dundee and provide a service which is responding to individual needs. We want more people in Dundee with mental health issues to recognise their talents, abilities and potential. We want people suffering from a wide spectrum of distress to have a wide range of opportunities and experiences that build their confidence, well being, recovery, self-esteem, self-management skills, motivation towards a hopeful future. We wish to enable people who participate to build a powerful voice in the community through their creative expression. We will do this by providing exhibitions both locally and nationally. We wish to see people happier, more in control of their futures and able to get involved in further education, volunteering and part-time employment. We hope that this work will help to prevent suicide, self-harm and self-medication with drugs and alcohol. We have seen evidence that this work can help to achieve this. People who engage in this project are investing in their health and wellbeing. They may have had to think about coming here the night before, making sure they get to bed on time, knowing which route they will take to get here, making positive choices to ensure they will get here on time. This in itself is a start towards healthy choice making. People are coming because they want to get well and stay well and we want to support them to do this.