Mr. Bill Forbes:

The innovation recovery project has been extended, with the help of the special EU programmes body, SEUPB, until May 2023. It is a successful project, which sets up a cross-Border mental health recovery college and 12 hubs follow along the Border corridor. Basically, it works in conjunction with the community voluntary sector and with people who have had past experiences with their mental health. Some of the service delivery on that is done, obviously in conjunction with clinical supervision, by people who have had lived experiences of mental health problems. The project empowers people to take control of their own health and well-being again, as well as to look at different pathways and models of support structures that we can put in place. The college currently has 19 programmes online. They focus on anything from stress, help with sleeping and relaxation. We are commissioning another five programmes to go onto that online college, which will bring that programme up to 24. It is accessible online. We have had it move to an ehealth programme. That is where we are. It is running on target. There will be over 10,000 individual beneficiaries of that programme.