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Join ClinksWe support women leaving prison from the moment of release through peer mentor matching with a lived experience individual who provides support, signposting and a buddy system.
We then provide a 4 day workshop program for exoffenders : "Digital Skills for Work," "Employability for Exoffenders," "Building Resilience - Emotional & Financial," and "Lived Experience - Owning Your Story," Our 4 day program takes women from behind bars to boardrooms and supports meaningful employment. Our core goals are to support women in reconnecting with others, their communities and to rebuild their lives with access meaningful well paid work – not just run-of-the-mill traditional employment prison pathways. We believe in aspiration and inspiration for all, empowerment, education and employment as tenets of reducing reoffending and creating life-long stability and rehabilitation. Face to face teaching in communities and prisons. Online learning platform available.
We then provide a 4 day workshop program for exoffenders : "Digital Skills for Work," "Employability for Exoffenders," "Building Resilience - Emotional & Financial," and "Lived Experience - Owning Your Story," Our 4 day program takes women from behind bars to boardrooms and supports meaningful employment. Our core goals are to support women in reconnecting with others, their communities and to rebuild their lives with access meaningful well paid work – not just run-of-the-mill traditional employment prison pathways. We believe in aspiration and inspiration for all, empowerment, education and employment as tenets of reducing reoffending and creating life-long stability and rehabilitation. Face to face teaching in communities and prisons. Online learning platform available.
Contact
Work Tel. No.
07720604065
franbarkermills2021@gmail.com
In Brief
Primary Field of Work
Employment
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
No. of service users
50
No. of Paid Staff
1
No. of Volunteers
2
No. of peer mentors
20
Organisation type
Consultant
Legal status
Unincorporated association
Year of Formation
2022
Organisation's Income
Less than £30k
Contract History
Supporting information
To date we’ve enabled 40 women 6 weeks out of prison to go through an intensive 3-6 month programme and all have now found work so we know the innovative, lived experience led approach works. We currently run fortnightly community classroom sessions in Manchester City Centre, Stockport, Salford and Wigan.
Alongside this we have been commissioned to support 30+ women from marginalised backgrounds including exoffenders with our codesigned programme Finding Financial Resilience with Flourish Together CIC.
Alongside this we have been commissioned to support 30+ women from marginalised backgrounds including exoffenders with our codesigned programme Finding Financial Resilience with Flourish Together CIC.
Regions
London
Inner London
Outer London
North West
Wales
Yorkshire and the Humber
Remote
Area covered
National - England and Wales
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy
Alcohol & drugs
Attitudes, thinking and behaviour
Counselling
Education
Employment
Finance, benefits & debt
Holistic services
Housing & homelessness
Mental health
Mentoring & befriending
Peer support
Prisons
Relationships
Research & academia
Resettlement
Training