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Join ClinksYSS 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
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
info@yss.org.uk
Website
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
100
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Legal status
Company limited by guarantee
Year of Formation
1986
Organisation's Income
£1m - £5m
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
West Mercia Probation Trust
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
Telford and Wrekin UA
Shropshire UA
Herefordshire, County of UA
Worcestershire
Area covered
1 or more regions
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