YSS

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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.

Contact

Address

Polysec House
Blackpole Trading Estate
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR3 8TJ
United Kingdom

Work Tel. No.
Head Office: 01905 730 780 (Monday - Friday from 10am - 4pm) / Worcestershire Young Carers: 01905 619 886
Email
info@yss.org.uk

In Brief

Primary Field of Work
Mentoring & befriending
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
No. of service users
2000
No. of Paid Staff
42
No. of Volunteers
50
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Legal status
Company limited by guarantee
Year of Formation
1986
Organisation's Income
£500k - £1m

Contract History

Supporting information
YSS has a large volume of internally and externally evaluated projects and associated reports connected with reducing re-offending and the associated reducing reoffending pathways, in both youth and adult criminal justice systems and across the 7 reoffending pathways. This includes statutory services commissioned by Probation, DWP and voluntary engagement programmes commissioned by Grant Making Trusts, ESF, Health, Local Authorities. Evaluations have been completed by Oxford University, Catch 22, Matrix Evaluations, the AIM partnership, Hedra, the National Probation Directorate. Projects evaluated include Intensive Supervision and Support programmes, ETE services, Accommodation Support, Volunteer Mentoring, Mental Health, Mentoring and’ through the gate’ services for Short Sentenced prisoners, Young Adult programmes (ICCP and T2A).
Partner organisations
NACRO
Willowdene Care Farm
The Fold, Bransford
Fry Housing
The Sandycroft Centre, Redditch
Bournville College
Shropshire Homestart
Shropshire Providers consortium
Clarent Commercial CIC
Roundtable Ltd
T2A alliance ( Transition to adulthood)
Staffordshire Police
West Mercia and Warwickshire Police
Action for Children
Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull partnership
Barrow CAdbury Trust
BES Business Enterprise Support
Employment Skills Group ( ESG)
Job Centre Plus
Lloyds TSB Foundation
NHS Worcestershire
Shropshire Council: Children's Services, Peoples Directorate
West Mercia Youth Offending Service
Staffordshire and West Midlands Probation Trust
Supporting People
Ubique
Worcestershire Children's Services
Worcestershire NHS: Public health
YMCA Redditch and YMCA Worcester
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
Area covered
1 or more regions
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
Lived experience involvement
Mental health
Mentoring & befriending
Parenting skills
Personal development
Relationships
Resettlement
Restorative justice
Sentence management
Through the gate
Training
Volunteering
People you work with
Children
Ex-service personnel
Families
Men
People convicted of serious offences
People convicted of sexual offences
People on a short sentence
Women
Young people