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Join ClinksThe Cascade Foundation runs an innovative project in Doncaster Prison - a new approach to help disengaged prisoners with learning difficulties. Using multi-sensory techniques, we re-engage them and teach them to read and write, then progress their literacy skills. We also deliver a unique programme of personal and social development. We enhance offenders' confidence and self esteem, teach many life-skills and train prisoners to be mentors and Learning Coaches to peer-mentor and support each other.
We will open our first Transition Centre in 2014 to accommodate, support, teach and train ex-offenders and those at risk of offending, helping them to find work and mentoring them in the community, linking with families.
Our CEO and founder has a strong track record. Her previous project in another prison decimated the re-offending rate and reduced that prison's assault rates to a fifth. Our goal is to greatly reduce re-offending rates in Doncaster and transform prisoners' lives.
We will open our first Transition Centre in 2014 to accommodate, support, teach and train ex-offenders and those at risk of offending, helping them to find work and mentoring them in the community, linking with families.
Our CEO and founder has a strong track record. Her previous project in another prison decimated the re-offending rate and reduced that prison's assault rates to a fifth. Our goal is to greatly reduce re-offending rates in Doncaster and transform prisoners' lives.
Contact
Address
3 Rectory Croft, High Street,
Wroot
Doncaster
Lincolnshire
DN9 2BF
United Kingdom
Work Tel. No.
07761478079
info@thecascadefoundation.org
In Brief
Primary Field of Work
Education
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
No. of service users
50
No. of Paid Staff
4
No. of Volunteers
10
No. of peer mentors
8
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Legal status
Charitable trust
Year of Formation
2013
Organisation's Income
£50k - £100k
Contract History
Supporting information
'Dyselxia Behind Bars' is also available as a PDF from jacquie.buttriss@talktalk.net.
'Transforming Prisoners' Lives' is a hook written about our CEO's previous prison poject and its astonishing success rates, published by Mainspring Publising and available on www.amazon.co.uk .
'Teachers TV' made a TV programme about that project entitled 'Literacy Behind Bars' and this can be seen online - Google those details.
Our CEO, Jackie Hewitt-Main's project has often been mentioned in Parliamentary debates (Google her name and Hansard).
There are many video clips on YouTube of Jackie interviewing prisoners' whose lives she transformed in that project, one of whom is now a reformed ex-offender teaching in Doncaster Prison and greatly looked up to by prisoners as a positive role-model.
Our Transition Centre near Doncaster will offer ex-offenders all the education, peer-mentoring and PSD that we offer in the prison, along with accommodation, vocational training and help finding work.
'Transforming Prisoners' Lives' is a hook written about our CEO's previous prison poject and its astonishing success rates, published by Mainspring Publising and available on www.amazon.co.uk .
'Teachers TV' made a TV programme about that project entitled 'Literacy Behind Bars' and this can be seen online - Google those details.
Our CEO, Jackie Hewitt-Main's project has often been mentioned in Parliamentary debates (Google her name and Hansard).
There are many video clips on YouTube of Jackie interviewing prisoners' whose lives she transformed in that project, one of whom is now a reformed ex-offender teaching in Doncaster Prison and greatly looked up to by prisoners as a positive role-model.
Our Transition Centre near Doncaster will offer ex-offenders all the education, peer-mentoring and PSD that we offer in the prison, along with accommodation, vocational training and help finding work.
Regions
Yorkshire and the Humber
North Lincolnshire UA
South Yorkshire (Met County)
Doncaster
Area covered
1 or more regions
Fields of Work
Disability
Education
Employment
Family support
Holistic services
Housing & homelessness
Infrastructure
Mental health
Mentoring & befriending
Offender management
Peer support
Personal development
Resettlement
Training
Volunteering
People you work with
Families
Gypsies & Travellers
Older people
People with disabilities
Prisoners with short sentences
Serious offenders
Young people