Partnership Finder

The Advice Services Alliance is the umbrella body for the voluntary sector social welfare advice services across the UK. We work in partnership with our members and other close stakeholders to ensure everyone in all our communities have access to the best possible advice when they need it.

Alabaster Coaching is a new and bespoke developmental, trauma-informed and person centred coaching service for justice-involved mothers in the UK. The coaching model is designed from research and the voiced needs of mothers within the justice system who in many cases are still badly underrepresented and served, for more safe, compassionate, actively listening spaces for self reflection, expression, connection and exploration of their maternal identity, choices, emotions and needs. The trained female coach in collaboration with the mother, whether one-to-one or in small groups, supports and empowers each individual mother in their personal goal setting, whether they are actively parenting or not, in their journey toward greater self-understanding, goal attainment and personal development, which also encourages better reintegration back into their families and society and a more positive future. The service is also designed to support a wider set of holistic, desistance interventions.

Barnardo’s is one of the UK’s leading children’s charities. Our overarching commitment remains to change the lives of vulnerable children and young people within our broader work with families and communities, giving them hope and helping them to realise their full potential. Our pledge is that we believe in children and young people and our vision is that the lives of all children and young people should be free from poverty, abuse and discrimination. We believe in the abused, the vulnerable, the forgotten and the neglected. We will support them, stand up for them and bring out the best in each and every child. Our purpose is to help the most vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil their potential.
We do this directly through our services, and through influencing the system around them. We support children, young people and families without judgement whilst standing up for them and lobbying Governments, commissioners and policy makers to put their needs

Our award-winning approach, BBM, helps people develop their soft skills (e.g. communication, self-motivation, time-management, team-working), improving employability and wellbeing. BBM produces quantitative evidence of the changes that are made.
We support organisations through our consultancy, using BBM Diagnostic to identify and remove barriers in systems and processes that stop organisations making the most of their people and doing their best work.

Brainkind (formerly The Disabilities Trust & BIRT) is the UK’s leading charity helping people thrive after a brain injury. We provide innovative rehabilitation and ongoing support to ensure life after brain injury can be a life well lived. With over 40 years of experience and expertise in brain injury and neurorehabilitation, we understand how a brain injury can challenge every aspect of life. At Brainkind, we are committed to providing person-centered, compassionate care. Our multi-disciplinary teams deliver the very best specialist neurological care and rehabilitation. Led by clinical psychiatrists and neuropsychologists, our team includes occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses, speech & language therapists, social workers, therapy assistants, and rehabilitation support workers.

The CLA works with all care leavers over the age of 16. We are guided by the views of our membership and thus hav0a wide range of areas of interest and activity. However, our work can be grouped into five main areas:

•User Led Support - A Network Project, group support, social networking site and virtual mechanisms to help people connect.
•Projects - Areas of work with specific outcomes – young people, access to records, speaking out, media.
•Training and Assessment - We work with a wide range of organisations to improve service delivery to care leavers through training and quality assessment.
•Advice, information and signposting - Focus on informing care leavers about their rights through signposting to additional support services and developing our guides and fact sheets while providing some individual casework.
•Research, Policy and Campaigns - We conduct, collate and promote research about care leavers

We change the lives of people with mental health problems by using research to bring about better services and fairer policies and we support local providers to put the findings of research into practice.

The Centre’s qualitative research helps to understand the experiences of people with mental health problems and the profound importance that services and policies have on their lives. Our work is unique because it stands apart from academic and clinically focused research projects and trials. We have a mature programme of research and policy work around the criminal justice system that has developed over more than twenty years.

Our motivation is to emphasise people’s experiences, facilitate societal change and help those who can to create a world class mental health service in prisons. We have the authority, influence, and independence to successfully bring quality research to bear on local and national decision-making and practice.

CGL is a criminal justice, health and social care charity working with individuals, families and communities across England and Wales that are affected by drugs, alcohol, crime, homelessness, domestic abuse and anti-social behaviour. Our projects, delivered in communities and prisons, encourage and empower people to regain control of their lives and motivate them to tackle their problems. We also offer volunteering, peer mentoring and employment opportunities across England and Wales

Children Heard and Seen is the only charity in the country with a specific focus on supporting children and young people with a parent in prison in their own communities, the people who care for them and reducing intergenerational crime . Interventions are delivered in the children's homes , schools, communities and online. Our offer includes specialist 121 support, group work, 121 mentoring outdoor activities and a yearly residential.

Circles UK seeks greater public protection by working towards a substantial reduction in sexual offending, providing a range of services to local Circles of Support and Accountability providers. Further, it aims to develop greater public understanding of community approaches to public protection.

Conviction helps people to navigate and have a voice in the criminal justice system. It develops practical resources to help people access their rights and to support campaigning and policy work, and offers its casework and advocacy service for those in most need.

Crisis is the national charity for single homeless people. Our purpose is to end homelessness by rebuilding lives through housing, education and employment services. Our services for homeless ex-offenders aim to reduce reoffending by improving skills, employability and housing stability. Through a highly personalised approach, we provide one-to-one employment coaching, vocational training, job search skills and up to six months in-work support. Our pioneering job coaching model empowers clients to address the personal and structural barriers preventing them from achieving sustainable employment, thereby reducing their likelihood of re-offending. Clients have access to housing coaches who help them to find accommodation in the private rented sector (PRS).

In the past year in London, 52 people secured employment and 15 found sustainable PRS accommodation. Since the service began in April 2010, of the more than 300 people supported, only one has re-offended while using the service.

Cruse Bereavement Support aims to promote the well-being of bereaved people and to enable anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people. The charity provides support and offers information, advice, education and training services. Also, go to www.rd4u.org.uk, which is a website designed for young people by bereaved young people.

Set up as a charity in 1984, Druglink’s objective is to have a significant and positive impact on the lives of those who use substances (drugs / alcohol), their families and the communities in which they live. Druglink achieves this aim by providing a diverse range of both proactive and responsive services, which target three key areas: Prevention, Recovery and Reintegration.

Druglink take an active role in education and currently run scheduled and bespoke training courses to a diverse client base. Druglink view education as key to prevention.

For those who have already been affected by substance use, whether their own or a family members’, Druglink run a number of projects aimed at easing and supporting recovery. Druglink view personalised support as the key to recovery.

Once in recovery, it’s essential for individuals to develop the skills and confidence needed to enable them to re-enter society. Working with a number of other agencies and

Doing What Really Matters (DWRM) works with universities to offer a much wider range of degree courses than are currently available to students in prison. We focus on the provision of study materials, tuition and greater participation in a learning community so as to properly engage students.

As there is currently very limited support for prisoners on release, this tends to mean students are unable to complete their course or sit the required exams. We bridge that gap by providing post release support to enable students to attend university campus to complete their degree. We also provide specialist employability support and mentoring to people leaving prison.

East West Organization offers a unique choice of holistic interventions for the prevention, treatment and recovery from addictions and attachments. The charity also provide a range of educational and preventative services for children and adults including mindfulness meditation to deal with relapsing conditions, such as stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, pain and depression which can often lead to alcohol, illicit drug and medication dependency.

EP: IC is an independent research, evaluation and consultancy collective in social and
criminal justice. Our team is formed from those with lived and learnt experience of prisons.

Escaping Victimhood was founded in 2007 by criminal justice professionals, who saw that many victims of serious crimes (such as the murder of a child) had extensive and on-going needs that were not being met.

We deliver four day (plus a one day follow up day) residential workshops designed to enable participants to ‘understand the past and embrace the future’. We also inform those working with victims of serious crime about the impact of trauma in their lives.

Our programme was developed to address the issues and helps restore participants to a more 'normal' life. It is unique and is delivered by skilled and professional facilitators. They are overseen by a lead facilitator, who is a highly experienced victim liaison worker and ensures strong and safe leadership of the workshop. . The structure of the programme is psycho-educative and therapeutic (with a small t) in a generic rather than specific sense.

Family Action is a charity committed to building stronger families and brighter lives. We help individuals and communities address the challenges they face through practical, emotional and financial support. We support over 60,000 families and hundreds of thousands of children across the country each year through a wide range of national programmes and local services. Our work includes help for parents-to-be, parenting and relationship support, the provision of many nurseries and Children’s Centres in local communities, intensive family support, emotional health and wellbeing services, counselling, mediation and therapies, a range of mental health services including supported housing, wellbeing support in schools and GP surgeries, financial grants programmes and a range of training and consultancy services. We deliver support to women in the Mother and Baby Unit and pregnant women in HMP Styal.

Since 1885, Forces Employment Charity's aim has been to help those leaving and those who have left the Armed Forces to find and to remain in employment throughout their working lives. We aim to make the client 'Job Ready' by signposting them to bespoke support required using our Project Nova network of support and tracking this via our Nova Support team prior to finding them the right employment choice.
Project Nova is an early intervention scheme working in conjunction mainly with the Police and NHS dealing with Ex Military personnel who have been arrested or are on the periphery of doing so. Project Nova works with many partner organisations including HMPPS & CRCs and local authorities along with numerous military charities.