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Offender Mental Health
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YSS has over 25 years experience of working with people who have offended and designing and developing innovate services to support them YSS works with over 2,000 people (children and adults) a year who have offended are who at high risk of offending or committing ant- social behaviour
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West Mercia Probation Trust West Mercia YOS West Mercia Police Staffs & West Midlands Probation Trust Ministry of Justice Department of Work and Pensions Shropshire Council Worcestershire County Council
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Lloyds TSB Foundation Barrow Cadbury Trust Multiple grant making trusts ESF YSS Previously commissioned by; The Home Office Youth Justice Board National Probation Directorate National Offender Management Service NOMS Co-financers
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Prevention from Offending programmes Mentoring Positive Activities Targeted Youth Support Volunteer Appropriate Adult Service Bail Information and Support Reparation Services Specified Activities Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Intensive Resettlement Service Junior Attendance Centre support
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Conditional Cautioning (Restorative Justice) Intensive Control and Change Programme (18-20 year olds) ACCLAIM (Intensive Supervision PPO project) Pathways programme Enhanced Support for Supervision (ESS) Non Statutory Support for IOM (NSS) Intensive Volunteer mentoring for PPO/IOM Supporting Compliance programme(those at risk of breach) ETE (Employment/Training/Education)wide range of services including vocational training, enhanced work programme, job clubs, personal development, work preparation, employer mentoring and 1-2-1 support
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Short Sentenced prisoners ‘through the gate’ (Connect) Transition 2 Adulthood (T2A) Bradley Mental Health project AIM partnership (Family Support) Accommodation Support Mentoring Senior Attendance Centre (18 – 24 years) Good Stuff - Social Enterprise (Café and Furniture) Care Farming @ The Fold CIC 1 Step Beyond strategy
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Mild to moderate mental health issues and learning difficulties Identified through longer term interventions Typically depression, stress, anxiety, PTSD, personality disorder Multiple sub-threshold needs in terms of mental health in addition to other 7 pathways Double disadvantaged – health inequality and difficulty to access services
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Complex needs and chaotic lifestyles Inability to articulate concerns and to navigate the system Low aspirations – services intimidating No voice to shape and influence services Professional language needs interpreting between mental health and criminal justice practitioners Professionals ‘wary’ of each system Mental Health practitioners concerned re offenders
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Opportunity with new commissioning landscape within Mental Health and Criminal Justice Ability to access preventative services that could support a decreased likelihood of further offending Particularly with young adults who are in a revolving door – in and out of the criminal justice system – lessons from T2A
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Through support from Lloyds TSB Foundation YSS has employed 3 part time senior mental health workers Sit alongside intensive support teams Offer screening, advice, information and brokerage to services and train staff/vols Ability to speak the right language, to knock on the right doors, to navigate the system and make referrals Needs to be mainstreamed in 2014
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Through 1 Step Beyond want to create a volunteer counselling service with local partners Has been piloted small scale in Worcester Offered on an outreach basis with flexible times Provides a bridge whilst awaiting professional services and introduces/prepares offenders for accessing these services
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