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Child Action Northwest has developed a range of dynamic projects and services to protect, support and empower children, young people, families and communities.

Choices Islington provides a counselling project at female prisons; Choice for Change supports women with pregnancy and child loss or child separation concerns, (inlcuding unplanned pregnancy support). Following the Covid-19 crisis, we have included remote counselling for ex-offenders in the community looking for therapy support around family issues especially child separation and general adjustment to life post-release during the Covid-19 crisis.
More info at www.choicesislington.org

Choice for Change provides an unplanned-pregnancy advisory service and counselling support for pregnancy and child loss including child separation support. This service is available currently in two women's prisons, HMP Bronzefield and HMP Downview. The organisation also provides the 'I AM Project', a relationships and sexual health education course for offenders, ex-offenders and other vulnerable groups. We work closely with other psychological therapies within the prisons and other voluntary and statutory agencies.

Chrysalis was formed originally in 2003 to provide Specialist Structured Support, Detoxification, Harm Reduction & Treatment Services as well as Relapse Management Services that had been specifically designed to address Dependency, Associative Mental Health Issues and to attend to the Resultant Chaotic & Repeat Homelessness experienced by sufferers as a result. All services are delivered within our Good Quality Community Based Supported Accommodation Projects. Since opening our services have grown, evolved, changed and adapted to meet the challenges unique to our sector and to respond and adapt more effectively to the needs of our service users.
Chrysalis now offers a number of Specialist Support Programmes delivered within a framework of Good Quality Supported Accommodation.
Chrysalis is a Non-Profit Private Registered Provider of Social Housing Registered Number 4751 and a member of the Housing Ombudsman and the National Housing Federation.

CleanStart is a Social Enterprise set up by Trafford Housing Trust to clear and clean its empty properties. The Trust employs ex-offenders from the community to carry out this work. Cleanstart offer a full clean and clear property and environmental service, to include empty property clearance, garden clearance, the cleaning up of 'grot spots', and house removal work. All staff have up to date CSCS cards to work on building site environments.

Independent support and guidance of 5 tier age groups of up to 10 individuals at any workshop/youthclub or project of various topics. . 5-10years , 11-15, 16-25 , and 25+ (adults/learners in line of work experience and shadowing groups... That create a gap and void where many STRUGGLE by personal circumstances affecting their actual physical or mental ability to maintain full time employment... My way of working... Is providing the skills, aswell as Higher education vocation and Certification, in whatever subject particularly interested in at individual wish or need .. I work by non profitable means, but produce such a significance in lives of need... Where costs aren't extortionate, it's bespoke to meet learners needs and for community being with interest...bit serves purpose in lives as academic and work life naturally enhances their Capabilities and Abilities ,
All majority comes by care, compassion, nature and roled out by entrepreneurship, associated by RELEVENT networking assist

We support women leaving prison from the moment of release through peer mentor matching with a lived experience individual who provides support, signposting and a buddy system.
We then provide a 4 day workshop program for exoffenders : "Digital Skills for Work," "Employability for Exoffenders," "Building Resilience - Emotional & Financial," and "Lived Experience - Owning Your Story," Our 4 day program takes women from behind bars to boardrooms and supports meaningful employment. Our core goals are to support women in reconnecting with others, their communities and to rebuild their lives with access meaningful well paid work – not just run-of-the-mill traditional employment prison pathways. We believe in aspiration and inspiration for all, empowerment, education and employment as tenets of reducing reoffending and creating life-long stability and rehabilitation. Face to face teaching in communities and prisons. Online learning platform available.

Community Counselling Cooperative(CCC) is set up to provide high quality counselling to adults and children in deprived areas of Tyne & Wear. Our aims are to improve the well-being and esteem of our communities, enhance social cohesion and help reduce crime. We encourage local communities to become stakeholders in our organisation and as with our statutory agency partners, help to shape the areas of work we undertake.

'Turnaround Toolkit' is a scheme we initiated in 2012 to provide emotional and psychological assistance to offenders, either as one to one support or within a peer support group. Research as to the efficacy of the project is available by request.

MTCBC Offenders Project
We were commissioned to run a pilot project of floating support to those with an offending history within MTCBC. In partnership with NPS and the Homeless Team, we have adapted the project to include those due to be released from the secure estate to NFA status to ensure they have through the gate support and ongoing resettlement support once released. This project began in April 2020 during the pandemic and has increased in size due to the demand for the service.

CCBC Prison Pathway Project
Working in partnership with CCBC Supporting People Team and Homeless Unit, we are commissioned under the Housing Support Grant to deliver an assertive outreach model for engaging the hardest to reach cohort of Rough Sleepers. Our contract has been running since 2014 and has a value of £240,000 p/a

Cornerstone offer emergency accommodation and move on semi supported living. Whilst with us clients can access both counselling and vocational training through our Factory workshop and retail outlets.

Crisis is the national charity for single homeless people. Our purpose is to end homelessness by rebuilding lives through housing, education and employment services. Our services for homeless ex-offenders aim to reduce reoffending by improving skills, employability and housing stability. Through a highly personalised approach, we provide one-to-one employment coaching, vocational training, job search skills and up to six months in-work support. Our pioneering job coaching model empowers clients to address the personal and structural barriers preventing them from achieving sustainable employment, thereby reducing their likelihood of re-offending. Clients have access to housing coaches who help them to find accommodation in the private rented sector (PRS).

In the past year in London, 52 people secured employment and 15 found sustainable PRS accommodation. Since the service began in April 2010, of the more than 300 people supported, only one has re-offended while using the service.

Cruse Bereavement Support aims to promote the well-being of bereaved people and to enable anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people. The charity provides support and offers information, advice, education and training services. Also, go to www.rd4u.org.uk, which is a website designed for young people by bereaved young people.

Depaul UK helps young people who are homeless, vulnerable and disadvantaged. We work in the heart of local communities, providing housing, resettlement, training, family mediation and mentoring. We also work with offenders inside prison, our support continuing through the gate.

Developing Health And Independence is a charity that was set up in 1999 to help those in need to break out of the cycle of homelessness and drug and alcohol abuse. Its aim is to assist people to address their addictions and gain control of their lives.

DVIP is a registered charity which aims to increase the safety of women, young people and children affected by and at risk from domestic abuse (DA) in London.

We offer the following range of services:
- Accredited violence prevention programme (VPP) for men who use violence and abuse in their relationships, open to self- referring men, court referrals and community organisations;
- Women-centred support group and 1-2-1 support services for women whose ex/partners are referred to our VPP;
- Therapy for children affected by DA;
- Young person's service for young people using abusive behaviours & parallel support service for parents/partners;
- Risk assessments for private and public law cases;
- Intervention and support services in Arabic to Arabic speaking communities;
- A DA and substance misuse treatment programme;
- Multi-agency DA training and consultancy.

Every year our services benefit approximately 1800 adults, young people and children.

Doncaster Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Service provides counselling and advocacy to men, women and children who have endured the trauma of rape or sexual abuse. We also provide training and awareness raising to identified groups, particularly around issues of healthy relationships.

Set up as a charity in 1984, Druglink’s objective is to have a significant and positive impact on the lives of those who use substances (drugs / alcohol), their families and the communities in which they live. Druglink achieves this aim by providing a diverse range of both proactive and responsive services, which target three key areas: Prevention, Recovery and Reintegration.

Druglink take an active role in education and currently run scheduled and bespoke training courses to a diverse client base. Druglink view education as key to prevention.

For those who have already been affected by substance use, whether their own or a family members’, Druglink run a number of projects aimed at easing and supporting recovery. Druglink view personalised support as the key to recovery.

Once in recovery, it’s essential for individuals to develop the skills and confidence needed to enable them to re-enter society. Working with a number of other agencies and

East West Organization offers a unique choice of holistic interventions for the prevention, treatment and recovery from addictions and attachments. The charity also provide a range of educational and preventative services for children and adults including mindfulness meditation to deal with relapsing conditions, such as stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, pain and depression which can often lead to alcohol, illicit drug and medication dependency.

EDAS Foundation is a registered charity based in the North West of Birmingham. We provide a range of services across Birmingham specialising in social welfare, advice and advocacy, informal education and training, and the advancement of local communities. Essentially we work to build knowledge and skills to help our communities to thrive.As a grass roots organisation we maintain a strong link between specialist local knowledge and the need to be an efficient and innovative service provider.
We support access to advice, guidance, and opportunity for local people in an endeavour to promote greater social mobility and living standards.We are committed to supporting, empowering and enabling people and families experiencing multiple vulnerabilities in achieving independent living.Also to reduce child poverty by mitigating the impact of poverty on the lifestyle, health and mental well-being of families and individuals living in and around some of the most deprived and impoverished areas of Birmingham.
We deliver services at a grass roots level.Every day, we work closely with lone parents, BAME individuals and families, newly arrived families, those on low income, families with young children, those living in poor or deprived conditions, the elderly, the indebted, the unemployed and workless and those hither to described as ‘hard to reach’.Our services are open to all.

We are a dynamic social enterprise based in the South West specialising in supporting people who are affected by drug and alcohol misuse. Working in the community and in prisons, we build clients Recovery Capital through our interventions and behaviour change services. We focus resources on enabling individuals to improve their lives and those of their families and communities.

We know it isn’t easy to seek help for drug and alcohol problems, and we try to make our services as welcoming and accessible as we can.

A fundamental belief underpinning our work is that, given the right support and resources, people can and do make remarkable changes….