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We are an adult drug treatment agency; to access our services, you need either to be using drugs or have previously been a drug user.

We operate a clean, dry 88-bed accommodation site for single homeless individuals aged between 16 and 64. Our aim is to support and empower people with the skills to achieve and maintain independent accommodation in the community. We accommodate through an interview and background check process.

Sussex Central YMCA provides a comprehensive range of services for vulnerable children, young people and families in Brighton & Hove, East and West Sussex.

Provision includes:-

Housing & Homelessness Prevention
• 228 bed spaces of supported accommodation
• 70 young persons tenancy / floating support
• Housing Advice Centre for 16-25 year olds
• Private Rented Sector Development Work

Therapeutic & Family Services
• Counselling in 75 Schools pan Sussex and community based counselling services
• Family Support and Mediation Services

Youth Support & Education, Employment, and Training Services
• Accredited Engagement & Learning Opportunities for 16-18’s
• Key stage 4 accredited alternative curriculum courses
• Two Youth Advice Centres
• Mental Health & Well-being Project
• Child / Young Persons Sexual Exploitation Project
• Specialist Teenage Pregnancy / Teen Parent Work

We provide housing and support for young people, single adults and families across Somerset and North Somerset. We also provide tenancy advice, support and training to individuals who are in need. We can offer access to a variety of apprenticeships across the the hospitality and fitness sectors, offering opportunities to those who may require extra support to achieve their goals.

YMCA Exeter's Perspectives Project exists to empower, educate and mentor young men caught up in the Criminal Justice System.

Working with young men on community orders, suspended sentences or post-sentence supervision there are three key strands to our work:

Learning: We run small group community based courses for ex-offenders that focus on personal and interpersonal skills.

Mentoring: In association with Dorset, Devon and Cornwall CRC, we offer one to one mentoring support for young men on probation as part of their community order. Mentoring addresses: housing; food and finance; mental health and wellbeing; purpose and identity; support networks and contributing to society, including employment.

Therapeutic Activity: We run a Social and Therapeutic Horticulture Programme on our community allotment. This programme provides physical and mental space for enrichment and a supportive community through growing and sowing together. We also run cooking classes in the winter.

We facilitate a 'paper bond' scheme for housing and homelessness, and practice placements for student social workers. We are also responsible for the SLA of a local community centre, as well as delivering ex-offender resettlement.

YMCA North Tyneside is a registered charity that supports
children and young people to be healthy, happy and connected. We focus specifically on young people through our supported accommodation (homeless young people with multiple and complex needs) and our youth and community work in local areas of high deprivation, some of the highest in the country. We support all ages in the community through our Nursery, Gym and Cafe. Our award winning (Youth Matter Awards, 2019) Supported Accommodation project has doubled in the last 18 months. We support young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessess across North Tyneside and neighbouring boroughs of Northumberland, South Tyneside and Newcastle. Our young people have multiple and complex needs such as mental health problems, learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorders, attachment disorders ADHD and ADD. Many are young offenders and some have been in prison.

This project aims to provide direct-access emergency accommodation and longer-stay supported housing. It provides support with benefits, substance misuse, health problems, employment advice, skills training, etc.

Empowering, rehabilitation and supporting the community, through:

- The promotion of civic responsibility and good citizenship
- Advancing education and personal development
- Promote life-long learning and the development of the individual capabilities, skills and understanding in subjects of educational value
- Creating programmes which will rehabilitate young offenders

We support individuals and organisations using mentoring as a medium to engage. We work with young people and adults alike. We currently are working with young people who are on the CAMHS waiting list, providing mentors to support young people and providing a listening ear and new experiences in a supportive manner.

MESMAC is a sexual health project, working predominantly with gay and bisexual men and men who have sex with men, dealing with sexual health and prevention of HIV and AIDS throughout West and North Yorkshire. Its community development approach means that it is also concerned with the wider lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGB&T) health, social and equity agendas.

You and Me Counselling provides young people/adults and their families with one to one, group, coaching, mentoring, teaching, tutoring, role modelling, information, advice, counselling and psychological therapies to enable psychological adjustment in young/adults offenders. We liaise and work alongside schools to identify and provide early intervention to potential young people at risk of developing anti-social, disruptive and truancy behaviour in schools that can lead to exclusions from schools.
Reintegrate offenders back into the community: We offer holistic support to adolescent offenders, with the aim enable psychological adjustment support mechanism that will. (1) Rebuild the young people/adult’s self-confidence, (2) restore their feeling of self-worth, and (3) prepare them for employment. You & Me Counselling are also looking to break the cycle of re-offending by restoring the young person adult’s relationship with their family and re-connecting them with their community.

London Urban Arts Academy is a passionate, inspiring and effective youth arts organisation specialising in music and the creative arts. It was established through pure passion for improving lives and sharing skills, to improve the lives of young people and make a difference to the present street culture.

We have an integrated EETEA model for reducing reoffending and reintegration of prisoners on release.

Engagement: We have been working in prisons as a prisoner led initiative since 2015 providing information on sentence planning and progression.

Education and Training: Our Academy provides fully funded soft skills critical thinking and personal development courses, as well as vocational NVQs, and apprenticeships to serving prisoners and prison leavers.

Employment: We offer a careers service for serving prisoners nearing end of sentence and prison leavers. Prisoners who enter our Pathways Programme receive a guaranteed offer of employment on release with one of our sponsoring employers.

Accommodation: We aim to ensure those on our Pathways Programme are financially supported into accommodation.

Mentoring: We provide 12 months post-release mentoring for Pathways graduates those who need it.

Coaching: We provide coaching to sponsoring employers staff on reintegration support needs.

Your Own Place works to prevent youth homelessness. This is done by providing tenancy support before and after getting their first place. We have a background in working with young offenders as being at significant risk of homelessness. We also offer peer mentoring to young people getting their first home, to see them through the challenges of setting up home for the first time. Our tenancy support can be delivered in groups or on a 1-2-1 basis.

Youth Action is an award-winning youth development agency providing a range of community-based services to meet the needs of its clients.
Having worked with a wide number of people over the past 10 years in a variety of mentoring roles, Youth Action now wishes to use its experience of working with the BAME sector and move into the offender rehabilitation arena. We are looking for organisations to partner with in this work.
We seek to influence policies to ensure that they are more youth friendly and therefore young people have better opportunities in life and have a greater voice in their community. We also passionately pursue the organising of bespoke opportunities to meet the varying needs of young people.

Youth Ink is a lived experience led charity operating in the heart of communities, we are experts by experience.
We work in co-production with young people stakeholders, adopting our innovative peer-led approach.

We use the power of peer networks to rehabilitate and to create safer communities for the future.
We enable young people caught up in the cycle of crime, addiction, mental health or care, to improve the services they receive. In turn, improving their life chances benefits them and their family, friends, neighbours, and the local community.

1) The rehabilitation of ex-offenders and the prevention of crime and anti social behaviour, in particular but not exclusively, by:
A) Facilitating their integration and constructive engagement in society;
B) The provision of support, information and advocacy for ex-offenders, those at risk of offending and the victims of crime; and
C) The promotion and development of best practice models of integrated offender management.
2) The promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.

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.

We aim to be a voice for prisoners suffering discrimination and to advocate for reforms within the wider Criminal Justice System to meet the spirit and practice of human rights legislation. We aim to create a legacy for Zahid Mubarek which will protect human rights and provide opportunities for others to lead useful and productive lives.