An essay covering the benefits of lived experience roles, especially mentoring/support roles (in particular roles where the candidate has experience of homelessness, drug misuse, domestic violence kind of issues). To be written in terms of the benefit to the client that they feel more understood by the mentor if they have a similar history and are able to build a bond/trust more easily and also from the mentor’s viewpoint that they have a job/confidence/therapeutic angle when previously they may have thought their personal experiences would prevent them getting a job not be beneficial. (Research/Quote/use as example- ‘Inspiring Change Manchester’ and ‘Changing Lives Initiative’ both funded by Shelter) Essay in files as an example (canno