REMEDI RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND MEDIATION INITIATIVES Mentoring for Adult Offenders A Best Practice Model

1. REMEDIRESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND MEDIATION INITIATIVESMentoring for Adult Offenders �A Best Practice Model GAVIN HUDSON (ROTHERHAM AND ADULT SERVICES MANAGER) MATTHEW MILLS

2. Overview What is Restorative Mentoring? Restorative Mentoring Process Map Needs Assessment Mentoring - an integrated approach Achieving Sustainable Outcomes Empowering People: Changing Lives Question and Answer

3. What is Restorative Mentoring? Restorative Mentoring is a community and custody based project run by Remedi working with some of the most prolific offenders. It signposts, encourages and supports offenders to engage with key agencies to aid resettlement and moving on from offending. The overall aim is to provide offenders with the skills and sustainability to empower them to live a crime free life without the support of services.

4. Restorative Mentoring: Process Map Remedi receive referral for client who is either in community or coming towards the end of their sentence ? Remedi perform initial visit to explain Restorative Mentoring and offer involvement ? Initial needs assessment takes place ? If client is in custody Remedi will meet the client on the day of release ? Remedi work with the client to address the initial needs of the client ? Client decides they no longer need Remedi help or are deselected from the scheme ? A final needs assessment and post�mentoring evaluation are completed ? Remedi check back in 1-2 months time to ensure client is still coping.

5. Needs Assessment Good need assessments should: Be client focused Encourage the client to prioritise their needs � weighing short term needs against long term goals Look for underlying problems behind explicit needs Be dynamic Provide a framework for working with the client

6. Needs presented by clients Accommodation Welfare Rights Education and training Issues with family Money/Debt advice Advocacy with colleges etc. Support in engaging with health services Support in engaging with other agencies Social support Addiction treatment

7. Restorative Mentoring and Youth Work Working with young people presents different challenges: Curfew awareness � centering activities around this Constructive Leisure activities Self esteem/confidence Greater/different issues with family Different legal frameworks Different strategies to make mentoring future focused

8. Restorative Mentoring � An integrated approach Restorative Mentoring

9. Restorative Mentoring � An integrated approach Operates alongside work done by probation, police or Youth Offending teams. Requires data sharing between key partnership agencies. Shared information can lead to better planning of offender management. Provides a guide and route through what is becoming an increasingly complex map of agencies and services.

10. Achieving Sustainable Outcomes Needs must be addressed in a way which allows the offender to sustain solutions beyond the project. For Example A client recently asked for help in paying their heating bills.

11. Exit Strategy

12. Empowering People: Changing Lives Figures from first nine months of PPO mentoring scheme in Doncaster: 45 Referrals 35 Contacted 10 No Contact 19 Actively Engaged 6 Not Interested 8 De-Registered

13. Empowering People: Changing Lives 2 clients have been in full time employment for over 6 months 3 now engaging with progress to work All clients have help writing a CV Regular job searches done with clients Clients assisted with debt and welfare advice 1 Family given emotional support when facing eviction and found affordable accommodation 1 Family found healthy accommodation 5 clients accommodated upon release from prison 3 clients re-engaged with DIP 3 clients assisted in entering education

14. Empowering People:Changing Lives �I didn�t think courses like this were for people like me.� - Service User enrolled on a digital media course in Barnsley

15. Empowering People: Changing Lives A Final Word Matthew Mills

16. Any Questions?