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Prison phone Ltd has been set up with the sole intention of keeping prisoners and families connected. The current charges the prisoners are paying to keep in touch with loved ones are astronomical and we are here to change that! Our service is for the families and friends of prisoners to help spread the burden of these calls and ultimately save the families and friends money, whilst keeping the ever so important ties for the prisoner to the outside world in the hope to reduce re-offending and bring down the suicide rates we are unfortunately seeing at the moment. All the information can be found on the website www.prisonphone.co.uk or you can call us on 08444430834 if you would like any clarification regarding our service.

The Prison Radio Association (PRA) aims to change the lives of serving prisoners through the power of radio.

An award-winning education charity, the PRA runs National Prison Radio (NPR) in partnership with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). The service is available to prisoners across England and Wales via in-cell TV.

The PRA works closely with a number of specialist intervention agencies and partners in creating content for NPR that signposts its audience to services that support rehabilitation and resettlement.

The PRA also provides support, guidance and expertise to existing prison radio projects and advises prisons interested in setting up radio projects and radio training facilities.

The PRA was established as a charity in 2006 in response to a growing demand from prisons to engage in prison radio.

Prison Reading Groups helps to set up and run reading groups in prisons. It runs groups in over 40 prisons, providing funding for books and helping find volunteers. It also provides books for Family Visit Days. It is part of the charity Give a Book.

The organisation seeks to improve conditions and treatment of prisoners and support their friends and families.

Since its inception in 1992, Prison SMART (Stress Management And Rehabilitation Training) has developed into a globally recognised program implemented in 50+ countries and has benefited more than 250.000 prisoners and staff. The prison program offers innovative and effective tools with multiple benefits, including reduced violence and aggression, improved physical and mental health, better relationships among prisoners and between prisoners and staff, reduced substance abuse, more positive outlook, and a general improved sense of wellbeing. It aims to break the cycle of violence and harmful behaviour (including self-harm) by working with the person in a holistic way (thoughts, emotions, body and behaviour. A variation of the program is also offered to staff working in prison in order to reduce stress, increase stress resilience, improve skills to deal with challenging situations and improve overall focus, health and job satisfaction.

Our Values: Provide Support Strengthen = PSS

Our Mission statement: Prisoner Support Services highlight welfare, and crime entanglements by recognising people’s individual needs, situations and goals. Through this recognition, people can behave responsibly and contribute to society. Removing barriers and limitations will Provide adequate support, Supporting our service users to enable people to mobilise their ideas, and goals and be strengthened to move forwards towards aspirational living.
This will allow social change.

We provide practical support to Britons held in prison overseas. We also help them resettle in the UK when they return here upon release, and we provide practical and emotional support to their families and friends throughout the process.

The Prisoners' Advice Service provides free legal advice and representation to adult prisoners in England and Wales regarding their rights, and regardless of the individual prisoners' means. PAS aims to educate and empower prisoners regarding the law and their legal and human rights.

Since 1989, PET has supported prisoners to engage in rehabilitation through learning. We do this by providing distance learning courses, advice and support in subjects and levels not available in prisons. PET also promotes and argues the case for prisoner education, and undertakes research informed by prisoner learners, to improve policies and practice.

Prodigal Arts is Rehabilitation through Art Creation and Sales.
We working with offenders and ex offenders through prisons currently in the Bristol area to promote their rehabilitation.
This is through the provision of equipment and training in Art and the provision of a mentoring programme aimed to help realise creative talent and acquire creative skills.
These skills are intended to assist offenders/ ex-offenders with re-integrating back into community and developing a responsible work ethic.
Through working on commission briefs, the sale and exhibition of their artwork through our website and events it is hoped that the offenders/ex-offenders we work with will develop professional skills that may provide them with links to future employment opportunities.

Prodigal Bikes works with ex-offenders, children excluded from mainstream schools and the long-term unemployed. We overhaul and upgrade mountain bikes together. We provide workshop facilities, bikes and training to allow the people we work with to learn basic Engineering skills, with a view to them pursuing further training and gaining employment in this sector.
Most of overhauled bikes are then shipped to remote pats of Africa where they are given primarily to schools to allow children there to get to school more easily, giving them a better start in life. Bikes too complex for rural Africa are given to refugees here in Somerset.
We believe the sense of achievement in making a large difference to the lives of some very poor people in Africa will make a huge difference to the people we work with, helping them to beat the cycle of reoffending, and find better more sustainable lives for themselves.

Progressive Lifestyle Solutions is a Community Interest Company that specialises in the provision of housing and support services for adult males at risk of homelessness in the Liverpool area. Using an holistic, person-centred approach to helping service users back to independent living, we provide them with the necessary tools, skills and knowledge to make this sustainable.
We have a fully functional gymnasium and sauna facility, free of charge to all service users, which provides training and fitness programmes alongside our onsite fitness instructor and dietician. We also have a strategic partnership with a local college, who deliver "Skills for Life" courses from our I.T. Suite and Classroom.
Other services include Employability coaching, CV Writing, and provision of food products as part of our Salvage Membership with a local wholsaler.
We have our own portfolio of "move-on" properties, which enable service users to seamlessly revert to independent living when they are ready.

We operate a social enterprise household mill shop, recycling centre and 'unpaid work'/'conditional caution' supervision.

Based in Elland, Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorskhire. Cover Calderdale, Kirklees and Bradford.

Opportunities for unpaid work include retail, warehouse, driver's mate and recycling/reuse tasks.

This supports our charity that provides:
- support for families & individuals affected by addiction.
- personal development training (Self Esteem/Confidence Building, Conflict Resolution and Anger Management, Admittance, Acceptance, Amends, Problem Solving, Dealing with anxiety, stress & depression, Emotional development, Goal setting and attainment)
- Home Starter Packs for people fleeing domestic violence, leaving prison, homeless etc.

PRHA has provided housing & support since 1850, registering as a RSL in 1975. We support single homeless people, rough sleepers, those with mental health support needs, substance misuse issues, families, care leavers, older people and ex-offenders, delivering specialist services to some of the most socially excluded people in East London. We operate in the LB Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Islington & City of London. We provide a range of hostel accommodation, floating support, specialist services & general needs housing.
We have services specifically for people involved in the criminal justice system: Two mental health Link Worker projects (link people with mental health issues back into support), probation based housing advice service, a women's one-stop shop & a user-led peer support service. We coordinate a Community of Practice for frontline workers to discuss good practice in working with people with complex needs.

Women's Turnaround is part of PSS, a voluntary organisation providing health and social care. The project is a safe female-only service offering individual and group work support to female offenders and women at risk of offending. We provide practical, personal and emotional support, including one-to-one support, group work, counselling, and signposting to a broad range of services.

Family Impact for Prisoners’ Children at PSS, (Person Shaped Support) supports children with a parent in prison, or children whose parents have been in prison. Ours is a ‘whole family’ model. We provide: Advice on what to tell the children about the imprisonment, 1:1 support for children to discuss their feelings regarding contact and peer group support for children where they can meet others who share their experience. We work in partnership with schools, prisons, probation and social services. We take children on prison visits where there is no other suitable adult to do so. Parents, including both the parent/carer and the prisoner parent post-release, can join our Family Recovery Programme. Parents consider the impact imprisonment has had on the family and consider their parenting approach through our Nurturing Programme. Prisoner parents post-release are helped to reintegrate back to family and community life. We run an award winning support group for family members.

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9:00am - 5pm. Friday 9:00am - 7:00pm.
Women only Project offering advice and support to adult female offenders. The Liverpool Womens Turnaround Project is a safe female only service offering a drop in, individual and group work support and counselling to adult female offenders. The project works closely with a number of agencies, such as CAB, drug and alcohol agencies, local training and employment agencies, mental health services, probation and the courts.

The project offers support with: Mediation and advocacy; Housing, Benefits and Debt Management; Employment, Education and Training; Parenting, Drug and Alcohol Support; Offending Behaviour, Domestic Abuse and 1:1 support. Group work - Positive You, Family Life, Freedom Programme and Understanding Your Emotions.

Provision of challenge psychotherapy for violent male offenders who need to understand their own 'psychology' and make changes accordingly. Some services funded by LSC or families. Willing to provide voluntarily in appropriate circumstances.

Clinical psychology exists in an ivory tower, which means that only a select few have access to our provision. Services, knowledge and provision are inaccessible to marginalised communities. Traditional mental health services can’t always or struggle to meet the needs of people who experience community violence directly or indirectly. Traditional mental health services are frequently staffed by professionals who lack the lived experience or cultural competence to fully understand the nuances of community violence, which ultimately leads to a disconnect between providers and the people they aim to help. So we’ve set up Psychologists the streets deserve because we strongly believe that we are clinical psychologists that communities can trust and relate to. We are psychologists that the streets deserve and feel that they can access. We specialise in trauma and PTSD and understand that trauma from community violence impacts not only individuals but families, communities and society.

PTSD Resolution provides therapy for the mental welfare of Forces’ Veterans, Reservists and their families. Treatment is free, effective and delivered promptly and locally through a network of 200 therapists nationwide, and also by phone and the internet.

Founded in 2009, the charity is accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists to the Quality Network for Veterans Mental Health Services (QNVMHS). With over 4,000 referrals to date, it delivers therapy in an average of seven sessions, where the client and therapist agree that no further therapy is required.

The charity is one of the only organisations to provide therapy to veterans suffering with addiction issues and to family members, including partners and children, who may be affected by trauma from living with a traumatised veteran.

PTSD Resolution has a ‘lean’ operation, with no salaried staff or assets - funds are used to deliver therapy and for essential research and public information.