This webinar series brings the powerful calls to action from “Setting the Blueprint for a More Equal and Prosperous Wales for People Who Use Substances” to life — one session at a time.
Each webinar focuses on a specific “ask” from the Blueprint, offering space to explore what it means in practice, why it matters, and how we can all play a part in making it real. From amplifying lived experience to embedding harm reduction, this is an opportunity for frontline workers, policymakers, advocates, and community members to come together, learn, and collaborate.
Let’s move beyond words and into action — together.
Our webinars will be free to attend and you can sign up to the respective session via the dedicated tab below. You will also be able to view previous webinars on our YouTube channel, or listen to them on the go via our podcast ‘Drugs Unwrapped’, available where ever you get your podcasts from.
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#6 Young People at the heart of service design and delivery
Thursday 6th November 2025 – 10.30am
Our 6th webinar within our Manifesto Sessions webinar series will focus on young people. As part of our ‘Setting the blueprint for a more equal and prosperous Wales for people who use substances’, we want young people with lived and living experience of substance use to be at the heart of the design and delivery of young person’s services. When young people are part of this process, the evidence suggest it has enabled young people to develop a wide range of new skills in communication, leadership, and professionalism, as well as highlighting how youth involvement in the co-designing and co-delivery of services aimed at this age group can improve and ensure relevance, credibility, and quality.
By involving young people in such processes allows for the design and delivery of a service to ensure as many barriers to accessing support are identified and mitigated against, as well as ensuring that the service mitigates the feelings of being unworthy of support, especially at the prevention and early intervention stage.
Our speakers are:
Angharad Williams
Team Leader, Choices Swansea (Young Person’s Service)
Angharad is the Team leader for Swansea Young person’s service Choices. She has worked with children and young people for over 13 years from an educational setting, local authority youth service and children’s rights and participation team. She developed the first Wales Youth forum in substance use services in which focuses on service deliveries, extra familial harm and breaking down the stigma for young people. She’s passionate about ensuring young people have their voices heard and implements this into her practice.
Angharad is the contextual safeguarding champion for Swansea in addition to leading the recent development and launch of the young person App in which has been developed by young people for young people, ensuring their aims are at the focus of each part of the development. She has led the delivery of staff groups such as the Young Persons working group and Supporting staff through work related loss. In her own time, she loves attending festivals, going camping and holidays.
Hannah Keating
Service Manager, Gwent N-Gage Young Person’s team
I have spent 14 years working for Barod, starting as a caseworker before moving into a team leader role, and now stepping up as service manager for Gwent N-Gage. Most of my work has focused on supporting young people, and I’m passionate about harm reduction, early intervention, and creating services that are honest, trauma-informed, and person-centred. I’m especially committed to making sure young people’s voices shape the service, ensuring their experiences and insights are at the heart of what we do.
#7 Equality Act alcohol exclusion clause
SAVE THE DATE Monday 8th December 2025 – 14.00pm
Speakers to be announced soon.
You can watch all previous webinars via our YouTube channel, or listen to them via our Drugs Unwrapped podcast, where ever you get your podcasts from. Below is an overview of each previous webinar
Webinar 1 – Why language is important
Webinar 2 – Family and concerned others
Webinar 3 – Drug Overdose Good Samaritan Act
Webinar 4 – Safer Inhalation Devices
Webinar 5 – Trauma-Informed Practice
Coming soon
