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YSS is a charity with over 30 years’ experience of working with individuals who face multiple life challenges. YSS are currently delivering 17 services across Warwickshire and West Mercia. With a staff team of 50 and over 100 volunteers YSS provides custody and community based support to a wide variety of individuals with a particular experience and expertise’s of those involved in the criminal justice system. Services include one to one intensive supervision and support to the IOM cohort, through the gate support for prisoners being released from HMP Hewell and HMP Featherstone, bespoke women only services, supporting veterans in the criminal justice system, diverting young people away from crime who are at risk of entering the criminal justice system, appropriate adult services, supporting people into education, training and/or employment and deliver a targeted early help provision across Shropshire. YSS offers a tailored and personalised approach which addresses the full gambit of an individuals’ needs using the 7 reducing re-offending pathways.
Contact
Address
Polysec House,
Blackpole Trading Estate,
Worcestershire,
WR3 8TJ,
United Kingdom
Work Tel. No.
Head Office: 01905 730 780 (Monday - Friday from 10am - 4pm) / Worcestershire Young Carers: 01905 619 886
info@yss.org.uk
Website
In Brief
Charity Number
1081992
No. of Paid Staff
42
No. of Volunteers
100
Does the organisation involve volunteers with experience of the criminal justice system?
No
Primary Field of Work
Mentoring & befriending
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Regions
West Midlands | Telford and Wrekin UA | Shropshire UA | Herefordshire, County of UA | Worcestershire
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy | Counselling | Education | Employment | Family support | Holistic services | Housing & homelessness | Mental health | Mentoring & befriending | Parenting skills | Personal development | Resettlement | Restorative justice | Service user involvement | Training | Volunteering
People you work with
Children | Ex-service personnel | Families | Men | Prisoners with short sentences | Serious offenders | Sex offenders | Women | Young people
Prisons
Featherstone | Hewell
Probation Areas
Staffordshire & West Midlands | West Mercia