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Services provided by this organisation comprise of domestic abuse community support, female and male safe-house accommodation, drop-in centre, floating support, child contact centre, community contact, support services, safety sessions and 24-hour-staffed emergency helpline.

Nepacs is a north of England charity which aims to promote a positive future for people who have been affected by adverse situations in their lives. They work with families, young people and children, as well as those affected by the criminal justice or care systems.
In the north east of England Nepacs staff and volunteers offer a range of services including prison visitors' centres and tea bars, play sessions for prisoners' children, youth projects, specialist family support, parenting and relationship programmes and support within the Teesside courts, Newcastle and Durham Crown Courts. In our visitors centres our teams support first time visitors and our departure lounges help prisoners and their families to prepare for release.
Nepacs also offers training for individuals working with children or families inc Hidden Sentence training or awareness sessions, care leaver awareness and parental rights training etc

New Dawn New Day transforms the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged women. We specialise in working with women in the criminal justice system and those considered at risk of offending as well as women and young women who have experienced trauma, violence and abuse. The women we work with often have multiple and complex needs.

We offer a range of services including personalised casework support, advice, advocacy, life skills training, counselling and psychotherapy, mental health support, sexual health advice, confidence and self-esteem building activities, creative arts, volunteering and work experience opportunities, parenting support and evidence based domestic abuse programmes such as the Freedom Programme and Recovery Toolkit. For women in the criminal justice system, the above services and activities can be accessed as part of a post-prison resettlement plan as well as a personalised Specified Activity Requirement designed to address the 9 women’s offending pathways.

Ormiston Families is a charity supporting children, young people and their families across the East of England, including children and families affected by imprisonment. We work in 11 of the region's prisons and young-offender institutions, offering community support for children and young people in Bedfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk.

PAC provides advice, counselling and training services to support all affected by adoption and permanency: children/families, adults who were adopted/placed as children, birth family members and professionals. Its daily Advice Line provides advice and information on all aspects of adoption and other forms of permanent care. In addition to individual counselling and family therapy, PAC provides support with contact arrangements between adoptive and birth families, intermediary services for birth relatives and adopted adults and regular drop-ins for birth mothers whose children have been compulsorily removed.

We are a specialist domestic and sexual abuse service provider with emergency accommodation, community support, helpline, groups and counselling. We also work with children and young people, and support the parenting role. We have a drop in centre for immediate help, where we provide legal clinics, access to support with alcohol and mental health issues, and all abuse related work. We take a holistic view of support needs and will work with the issues around the abuse but also provide services for all other life issues. We work primarily with women and children but also have services for male victims. We have a 24 hour helpline and so are available easily and at any time. Our ethos is that we will provide as many of the services needed under one roof wherever this is possible. We recognise that life has many challenges and that working in isolation is not the answer - we have a partnership ethos throughout our organisation.

Pact is a pioneering national charity that supports prisoners, people with convictions, and their children and families. We provide caring and life-changing services at every stage of the criminal justice process: in court, in prison, on release, and in the community, based on a public health model of practice.

We work in more than 60 prisons and provide prison-based family engagement and social workers, Visitors’ Centres, visitor support, supervised play, catering, family activities, relationship and parenting education programmes, court and community family support, resettlement support and community-based mentoring and befriending programmes. Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & Wales.

We also run the HMPPS contracted national Prisoners' Families Helpline which can be reached seven days a week on 0808 808 2003.

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.

Services provided include adult learning - childcare, literacy and numeracy. The RCC also has a creche and childcare facilities. and provides health and well-being activities.

Restorative Solutions is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) committed to enabling the use of innovative restorative approaches as a practical and cost-effective intervention for reducing harm or conflict.
We introduce restorative practices to organisations, volunteers and front line workers who are looking for a proven and worthwhile alternative to existing conventional approaches to reducing conflict, disputes, anti-social behaviour, bullying, crime and re-offending. We deliver bespoke, commissioned Restorative Justice services to organisations.

We’re a community development organisation, which brings people together to build strong communities. Since 1988, we’ve been working with people of all ages to help them live happy, healthy lives.

Stepping Stones is a unique service in Luton for women offering support on a variety of issues such as drugs/alcohol, domestic abuse, mental health, problems related to offending or re-offending in a safe, warm and supportive environment. We also have an Ofsted Registered Childcare Service so children can be looked after in a safe environment whilst their mothers/carers access support. We work in Partnership with BeNCH CRC to divert women from custody, reduce women’s offending and divert women from the criminal justice system. We offer a huge variety of comprehensive services. We are a holistic womens service that understands and takes every aspect of women’s lives into account. We use gender-responsive guiding principles in creating an environment that reflects and understands the realities of the lives of women that addresses and responds to their strengths and challenges.

The Calico Group is a group of innovative charities and businesses aimed at making a real difference to people's lives. We deliver services in the health, care & support, employability & skills, housing and construction & regeneration sectors. In terms of criminal justice, our services include: drug & alcohol service in HMP Manchester and HMP Buckley Hall; supported housing for ex-offenders in Manchester, Rochdale and East Lancs; refuge for homeless people with complex needs; traditional and complex needs domestic violence refuges and safe houses; domestic violence perpetrator programmes; behavioural change programmes aimed at criminal behaviours; community substance misuse services in Blackpool (Horizon) and Manchester; promote lived-experience volunteer and peer support throughout our services. More widely, we are an RSL with 4,500 properties and provide a wide-range of care and support services to vulnerable people in our communities.

The Haven Wolverhampton provides emergency accommodation and other support services for women and children escaping domestic violence and homelessness. It has six units of accommodation and support services for ex-offenders who are homeless (women only). Referrals can be taken from outside of the Wolverhampton area.

The Nelson Trust provides Women's Centre services to women experiencing multiple, complex needs which may include repeated involvement with the Criminal Justice System (CJS). Our mission is to champion trauma-informed approaches to address the root causes of substance misuse, violence, abuse, deprivation and poverty. Our comprehensive services are based at our Women’s Community Centres in Gloucester, Swindon, Somerset, Bristol and Wales. The gender-specific services we offer address needs across the Nine Pathways that lead to offending (including housing, health, substance misuse, employment, and family breakdown), and divert women away from the CJS. The Trust was established in 1985, and our women’s services were informed by our abstinent-based residential rehabilitation programme in Gloucestershire. We work with women across Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Avon and Somerset and Wales to reduce re-offending and support women to achieve sustained, positive changes in their lives.

The Women's Centre Cornwall is run by women, for women. We have grown from our early roots as a Rape Crisis Centre into an innovative, award-winning feminist organisation which provides a wide range of services for women and girls in our communities. Our work with women living with the impact of sexual and domestic violence is our core specialism as we believe that there can be no real gender equality without a complete cessation of violence against women. In addition, we provide community-based activities across Cornwall and support women ex-offenders across Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, and in HMP Eastwood Park.

The overall aim of TWP is to address the complex, multiple needs that often lead women to offending, and in so doing to prevent offending and reduce reoffending. The ultimate aim is to help vulnerable women turn their lives around and address issues which are linked to offending or which place a woman at risk. TWP engages with and provides intensive support to clients; offering one-to-one and group work support, guidance, information and signposting. The aim being to raise aspirations, build confidence and self esteem, as well as providing access routes into participation, education, training and employment, housing and personal development.

Women in Prison is a national charity, dedicated to making a difference to the lives of women affected by the criminal justice system by providing holistic, women-centred support in prisons and the community in order to enable them to meet their resettlement needs and reduce the risk of re-offending. We also educate the public and policy makers about women in contact with the criminal justice system, to promote alternatives to custody and provide a voice for women’s experiences.

Women’s Work (Derbyshire) Ltd is a National Award Winning Charity based in Derby that supports women with complex needs of all ages. Many have become disadvantaged due to homelessness, domestic violence, drug addiction and mental/physical ill health. We offer support to those who wish to change their current lifestyle and try to tackle drug addiction within the client group. The organisation has a number of key partners who support its aims to delver sustainable changes and improvements in health and well- being for these individuals and their familes. There are currently four active projects each with it's own perfomance indicators and outcomes. These are - Below The Radar Project- The Link Work Project- The Little Links Project and The TurnAround Project. We deliver the domestic violence programme - The Freedom Programme and the Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities Parenting Progamme and we deliver a range of workshops including confidence courses, IT and Basic Maths

To provide a holistic one stop service that combines centre based and community based services for and by women.
Focussing on meeting the needs, aspirations and desires of women in order to help them have an improved quality of life.