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The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association (ACAA) is a UK-based charity supporting Afghan and Central Asian refugees and migrants. Established in 2001, ACAA works to empower individuals and promote successful integration into British society. The organisation offers a wide range of services, including ESOL classes, employment workshops, women’s support groups, and youth programmes. ACAA also provides a Saturday school, homework club, drop-in advice sessions, and cultural events to foster community cohesion. Additionally, the charity is working to reopen advice centres in Afghanistan to assist with education, employment, and domestic violence issues. Through these efforts, ACAA strives to improve the quality of life for its beneficiaries and build stronger, more inclusive communities.

Birth Companions is a unique charity which supports women experiencing severe disadvantage during pregnancy, birth and early parenting. We are the UK’s leading organisation working in this area, with widely acknowledged expertise in the needs of pregnant women and new mothers facing severe disadvantage both in prison and the community.

The women we support face a range of issues and challenges including mental health problems, substance misuse, a history of domestic and sexual violence, trafficking, experience of detention and human rights violations overseas. They are particularly vulnerable during their pregnancies due to the effects of poor health, poverty, lack of support from family and friends as well as isolation.
Our overall aim is to empower women and help them to give their babies best possible start in life.

We also seek to raise awareness and to influence changes in policy and practice to improve conditions for the women we work with.

BLAST Foundation is a Christian "Through The Gate" Resettlement organisation, working with prisoners and ex-offenders and their families of all faiths and no faiths. BLAST aim to be provider of choice, for prisons and probation trusts wishing to reduce recidivism and improve resettlement for prison inmates who want to transform their lives and break their cycle of re-offending. BLAST achieves this through our transformation, employability & business programmes delivered in prison. These programmes combine and are supported by BLASTs mentor and resettlement services, to support ex-offenders and their families in the difficult task of re-integrating in society

Help finding employment & training
Supported volunteering
Life skills training and accredited learning
Mentoring & Befriending
Advice (welfare rights, housing, debt, employment etc)
Information, advice & guidance

Children Heard and Seen is the only charity in the country with a specific focus on supporting children and young people with a parent in prison in their own communities, the people who care for them and reducing intergenerational crime . Interventions are delivered in the children's homes , schools, communities and online. Our offer includes specialist 121 support, group work, 121 mentoring outdoor activities and a yearly residential.

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

Conviction helps people to navigate and have a voice in the criminal justice system. It develops practical resources to help people access their rights and to support campaigning and policy work, and offers its casework and advocacy service for those in most need.

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.

Family Action is a charity committed to building stronger families and brighter lives. We help individuals and communities address the challenges they face through practical, emotional and financial support. We support over 60,000 families and hundreds of thousands of children across the country each year through a wide range of national programmes and local services. Our work includes help for parents-to-be, parenting and relationship support, the provision of many nurseries and Children’s Centres in local communities, intensive family support, emotional health and wellbeing services, counselling, mediation and therapies, a range of mental health services including supported housing, wellbeing support in schools and GP surgeries, financial grants programmes and a range of training and consultancy services. We deliver support to women in the Mother and Baby Unit and pregnant women in HMP Styal.

Housing for Women is a housing association and charity providing housing and support services for women and their families in London.

Our ReConnect project provides supported accommodation for women leaving prison dealing with substance misuse and with complex needs. Combining housing and person-centered support we help women to bring about positive changes in their lives, reduce substance misuse, improve their emotional well-being and prevent future re-offending.

Our ReUnite project works with mothers leaving prison who would otherwise be homeless. The project provides supported accommodation and holistic support to help reunite women released from prison with their children.

What is ISW Services?

ISW Services CIC is a non-profit organisation providing support services, advocacy and guidance. Here at ISW Services CIC, we run an independent, confidential support service which is catered to the individual needs of the client. Our support workers have several years of experience and qualifications relating to relevant support.

How can we support you?
We provide advocates to support clients in a variety of areas. These include:

Benefits · Debt · Housing · The prison and probation system · Education and training · Business support · Life skills · Bill management · Complaints handling · Social care · Family law · Power of Attorney registration · Advocacy · Mentoring · Guidance · Referrals · Home visits for vulnerable clients

Janus is a specialist drug and alcohol service. We have a 7 day a week total abstinent day programme, a counselling service and a training company. We deliver training in Diversity, Drugs and Alcohol, Groupwork, Managing challenging Behaviour, positive Challenge and Bespoke courses to fit the need of the organisation. We also have a Social Enterprise that provides projects such as low cost counselling, drug and alcohol groups for the community, creative thinking workshops and life coaching. The training we deliver is experential in nature and thought provoking. We believe that if training is delivered to an audience that makes them explore their work practice, then this can benefit the client.

Our projects are well thought out, innovative and creative, and we always strive to provide a platform for our clients where they have the opportunity for change. We have a total abstinent therapeutic community, and provide a space for our clients to live a drug and alcohol free lifestyle.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear. We use the services project services and programs to empower the BME community to discover their purpose their pathway and place them around the right network of people who will nurture their talents and gifts in order for them be productive, prosperous in good health, create wealth and leave a legacy.

Mind in Haringey provides a number of services primarily for people within Haringey, although some of our services are also offered to residents of boroughs with no local mind association. We aim to meet the needs of our community, to provide services which are in demand and to work collaboratively with our major partners to ensure that our local community have easy access to the services and support that they need, when they need it.

From July 2018, our previous Wellbeing Activities, and Advocacy & Wellbeing services will be part of the Haringey Wellbeing Network. Visit the service page below to learn more.

Pecan is a Peckham based charity working to tackle the causes of poverty and multiple disadvantage. Within Pecan, the Southwark and Lewisham Women's Hubs provide support for women affected by the criminal justice system and experiencing complex needs. The hubs enable women to access 1:1 advocacy from a Women's Advocate, a safe space to access information and advice, as well as a programme of holistic activities which promote improved wellbeing and mental health. We work in partnership with probation, as well as other voluntary sector organisations providing support to women in the borough.

As an organisation, Pecan has been serving people through a variety of local projects for over 30 years.

Positively UK is the leading provider of peer support for people living with HIV. We strongly believe that people who understand the implications of living with the condition are best placed to develop and deliver services and policies that effectively support the community. Founded by two people living with HIV, today all our front line staff and volunteers are themselves HIV positive. We support Over 1,400 individuals living with HIV each year, enabling them to make informed choices around their health and social care, live well with HIV, and achieve the best physical, emotional and social well-being. We do this through the provision of one-to-one support, group work and information. Our work complements clinical care, and our peer workers are integrated into clinics and prison across London.

In 2013 we published a review of support for people living with HIV in prison entitled HIV behind bars: http://www.positivelyuk.org/published_reports.php

Our mission is to show Christ’s love to people in prison by coming alongside them and supporting them. We seek, through prayer and practical care, to help, support and develop a Christian ministry to people in prison and their families.

We do this through our network of over 2,500 volunteers. We are currently ministering in almost all of the 120 prisons in England and Wales.

Reach Dem UK is a voluntary organisation which exists to ensure that no one is ever deemed unreachable by society. We are determined to tell the stories of those young persons who have no voice.

Reach Dem UK was established as a direct result of the hopelessness experienced by so many young people today. We aim ensure that young people are empowered with knowledge to help them make informed decisions about how they live their lives.

Seetec has over 29 years experience of delivering employability and skills programmes across the UK, including DWP Work Programme, Work Choice, SFA Skills Support for the Unemployed, Apprenticeships and NOMS ESF Programme. We have supported 100,000 customers in the last year engaging a wide range of customer groups, including ex-offenders through the Work Programme (across 3 CPAs nationally) and through our NOMS ESF contract. Through delivery of these programmes, Seetec has developed strong partnerships with over 500 framework partners nationally that provide support and guidance to customers with multiple needs. Provision includes support for Local Authorities (LAs) and voluntary sector organisations.

Spark2Life is determined to make sure that all children and young people have a safe and nurturing life. We work in schools and the community to prevent criminal activity, tackle exclusion, reduce racial disproportionality and increase emotional resilience of young people (11+yrs) affected by violence.

Our services in the community and education are delivered in London, Kent and Buckinghamshire where we provide therapeutic mentoring, casework, counselling and awareness programmes to prevent young people from gang violence, offending and criminal exploitation.
We provide family support and training to professionals through Trauma Informed courses and AQA Accredited Wholistic Mentoring.