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Birmingham Community Development Scheme (BCDS) is a specialist organisation in Birmingham that provides mentoring to young offenders, ex-offenders and the long termed unemployed. BCDS specialized in the delivery of behaviour modification workshops, employability workshops, job clubs, CV and cover letters workshops and other programmes for young people who are at risk of offending and people who want to get back into work.

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

With training centres in 5 London prisons, one in HMP Leeds and one in the community in London Bounce Back trains people in sought after construction industry skills. Offering an end to end solution from prison to employment their dedicated case managers engage with trainees 6 months prior to release to help them through their journey gaining skills and qualifications that can lead to employment on release either within their own painting and decorating social enterprise or with a number of construction industry partners with whom they work. Their aim is to change lives and break the cycle of crime by training people in custody for employment and a positive future.

'Our mission is to provide individuals immediate well-being support and practical guidance should they find themselves on the wrong side of the law for the first time. Through education initiatives we aim to discourage young people from crime by empowering them to explore, understand, challenge and change attitudes that may lead to anti-social or serious criminal activity. Through training and employment enterprises we aid ex-offenders in re-engaging with society, thus transforming lives and reducing public spending'.

CAIS is a registered charity and leading voluntary sector provider of personal support services in Wales. It helps people who are having problems with addictions, mental health, personal development and employment – as well as offering assistance and information to their families and friends. Its wide range of services includes residential treatment and rehabilitation, counselling, peer mentoring, supporting people in their homes, assisting people back into work or education, group work and other motivational interventions. CAIS can also offer a comprehensive range of training courses, together with training and support for employers. It is very active in the field of employment interventions including the development of our own social enterprises. CAIS is committed to working in partnership with others in keeping with the All Wales Strategy – Tackling Substance Misuse in Wales. All of its services aim to help people to recover from addiction and rebuild normal, productive lifestyles.

Career Connect is a charity whose core business is the provision of all-age careers information, advice, guidance and support. We enable people to make realistic choices, based on sound information, to help them achieve their potential in learning, training and employment. Established in 2001, we deliver services across NW England providing: The National Careers Service across NW NOMS CFO 3 contract for NW of England through our wholly owned subsidiary Achieve NW Connect. We deliver a programme that prepares and supports offenders into employment with a 32% sustained outcome rate. Careers information, advice and guidance services for young people (formerly badged as Connexions) across Greater Merseyside and Salford. Unlocking Potentiala social impact bond funded programme to support 4200 young people with behavioural, moderate mental health and wellbeing issues prepare for and enter the world of work. We also have staff embedded in Trouble Families teams and an adviser in Hindley YOI.

Caritas Care's ACE (Assisted Community Engagement) Project provides an assisted seamless transition from custody to community and reduces the risk of reoffending by ensuring that essential needs are met without it being necessary to revert to a life of crime. Support is provided by volunteers and paid staff to address their needs, as identified by NOMS.

We facilitate educational programmes to children and young people focusing on the consequences of crime and providing them with an informed choice on their own life direction. What enables us to do this is 5 years of experience of our work conducted as a charity, from which we have sustained our charitable
objectives through the CIC. Our primary aim is to educate youngsters about how crime effects all it touches, acting as a deterrent & also a conduit to positive progression. What enables us to achieve this is our unique approach, relying on testimony of rehabilitated ex-offenders and victims of crime and also our
innovative workshops including joint enterprise, family perspective, gun gang & knife crime, drugs & alcohol, victim impact, legal aspects and many others including our mobile CELL experience (a well publicised insight into prison life and the implications of offending). We aid reintegration of ex-offenders
by supporting their progression, preventing re-offending.

Circles South West is an independent charity established in 2010. We work in close partnership with health, police, probation and youth offending services, uniquely providing Circles of Support and Accountability across South West England. We are the only recognised partner of the Ministry of Justice and statutory agencies/MAPPA, providing specialist support and accountability to enhance the management of people who have sexually offended in the community. Last year we coordinated 58 Circles of Support and Accountability, involving more then 200 volunteers around the region. This is more than 6400 direct volunteering hours, equivalent to £89,500 in kind.
Circles South West provides Circles of Support and Accountability, using four volunteers for each sex offender, to support and help monitor high-risk sex offenders in the community. We provide Circles for adults, young people with harmful sexual behaviour and for those with an Intellectual Disability. We also provide Circles for sexual offenders pre- release from HMP Leyhill, Channings Wood and Dartmoor.We work closely with Police and HMPPS.

Crafting Relationships develop and manage creative projects with social benefits. We work with a wide range of vulnerable groups including ex-offenders, people using mental health and learning disability services, older people (including those living with age related diseases) children and alcohol groups.

Our work spans the arts and projects include comedy, animation, training artists to work in healthcare settings, drop-in mental health groups, literature and spoken word with young black men in the mental health system, and also inter-generational sessions.

The Directions Project is a crime prevention, intervention and rehabilitation scheme aimed at young people at risk, hard to reach individuals, offenders, and ex-offenders. Our intervention is aimed both at prevention/deterring people away from crime and involvement in gangs, and reducing crime/the risk of re-offending by reintegrating offenders and ex-offenders back into society.

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.

We provide housing support and complementary services to adult and young offenders, having developed specialist support services for MAPPA offenders, domestic violence perpetrators, PPOs, etc. to reduce reoffending. We provide peer mentors to work with offenders, and aim to provide employment opportunities for our customers within our services.

Framework is a specialist provider of housing, support, treatment, mentoring & training across the East Midlands & South Yorkshire. Services include
Emergency Accommodation for homeless people;
Skills for Independence training;
Floating Support - Housing, debt, benefit advice to people in their homes;
Drug & Alcohol Treatment – IBA, residential rehab, intensive case management;
Mental Health Services - Supported accommodation, ‘Recovery’ services;
Offender Services –Supported accommodation, Prison In Reach mentoring, resettlement & floating support;
Street Outreach services - targeting rough sleepers;
Move-on accommodation – Preparing people for independence;
Older Persons services – Including residential registered care;
Young Peoples’ services - Supported accommodation & mentoring;
Complex needs services - supported accommodation;
Services providing education, training, volunteering & mentoring - Advice & Guidance, job search & work placements.

Get Wise create and deliver high-impact, creative media projects with offenders and their families. Our highly-interactive projects range from radio podcasts, to audio tracks to video. We combine personal behaviour development with industry skills. We operate in prison and in the community and are always on the look-out for people who want to make a fresh start, who are ready to do something positive for themselves and willing to have a laugh in doing so. Get in touch via our website. We can't wait to work with you!

Groundwork North East helps people and organisations make changes in order to create better neighbourhoods, to build skills and job prospects, and to live and work in a greener way.

Hafal (meaning 'equal') is the principal organisation in Wales working with individuals recovering from serious mental illness and their families. As a member led Charity, we were founded 20 years ago on the belief that people who have direct experience of mental illness know best how services can and should be delivered. Providing support across all 7 local health board areas of Wales and delivering over 76 projects, Hafal is dedicated to empowering people with serious mental illness and their families to:
• Achieve a better quality of life.
• Fulfill their ambitions for recovery.
• Fight discrimination.
• Enjoy equal access to health and social care, housing, income, education, and employment.

Our vision is for people of all ages to be safe, building ambitions for the future and reaching towards their full potential.

Our Mission -
Humankind creates services and support to meet people’s complex health and social needs, helping them to build healthier lives that have meaning and value for themselves and their families. We support local people to create stronger, better-connected communities.

Our Values -
Honest: We are open and realistic, building trusted relationships in which we challenge, collaborate and change
Committed: we are passionate about being the best that we can be, and we do this by keeping people at the heart of everything that we do
Inventive: we are ambitious, drawing together skills and resources to innovate and adapt in determined pursuit of our mission.

We help individuals, organisations, agencies and employers in the statutory, private and voluntary sectors, to understand the extent and nature of discrimination and inequality experienced by individuals and groups in fields such as the criminal justice system, housing, employment, education, health and social care. The aim is to encourage them to implement policies and practices which will eliminate discrimination and promote equality of opportunity, and good relations, between all persons.

Challenge to Change (C2C), designed and developed by Kainos Community, is a 6 month CSAAP accredited programme currently delivered in 3 adult male prisons. The programme encourages and supports individuals in addressing their offending, associated distorted thinking and anti-social behaviour, promoting and facilitating the transformation to a more purposeful, pro-social life.

Independent research has evidenced C2C to be very effective (Ellis 2012): After 1 year, 84% of Kainos graduates had not reoffended and of those that did, the frequency of their offending had been reduced significantly compared to a matched comparison group.

Although developed and accredited as a custodial intervention, the programme principles and design are applicable to offenders and ex-offenders in different settings.

Kainos is now part of the Langley House Trust group, a long established provider of accommodation based services. This merger provides for a unique pathway from prison to community.