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Established as a charity in 1986, YSS supports individuals who face multiple life challenges across Warwickshire and West Mercia. With a paid staff team of 50 and over 50 volunteers, YSS provides custody and community-based support to a wide variety of individuals and have particular experience and expertise of supporting those involved in the CJS and those most poorly served by public and statutory services.
YSS services include 1:1, intensive, holistic support to veterans in the CJS; those experiencing familial imprisonment; appropriate adult service; targeted Early Help; as well as supporting people into accommodation on release from prison.
YSS services include 1:1, intensive, holistic support to veterans in the CJS; those experiencing familial imprisonment; appropriate adult service; targeted Early Help; as well as supporting people into accommodation on release from prison.
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
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In Brief
Charity Number
1081992
No. of Paid Staff
42
No. of Volunteers
50
Does the organisation involve volunteers with experience of the criminal justice system?
Yes
Primary Field of Work
Mentoring & befriending
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Regions
West Midlands | Warwickshire | Warwick | Stratford-on-Avon | Rugby | Nuneaton and Bedworth | North Warwickshire | Telford and Wrekin UA | Shropshire UA | Herefordshire, County of UA | Worcestershire
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy | Attitudes, thinking and behaviour | Case management | Counselling | Domestic & sexual violence | Education | Employment | Family support | Finance, benefits & debt | Holistic services | Housing & homelessness | Mental health | Mentoring & befriending | Sentence management | Parenting skills | Personal development | Relationships | Resettlement | Restorative justice | Lived experience involvement | Through the gate | Training | Volunteering
People you work with
Children | Ex-service personnel | Families | Men | People on a short sentence | People convicted of serious offences | People convicted of sexual offences | Women | Young people
Prisons
Featherstone | Hewell
Probation Areas
Staffordshire & West Midlands | West Mercia