Overview
The pilot will work with young people who have suffered harm, including physical, mental or emotional harm as a result of a criminal off a criminal offence, or who are relatives of someone whose death was directly caused by a criminal office (Government code practice).
Commissioned by MOPAC, MOJ & Kent PCC
14 month pilot commencing in February – working with YP from London & Kent
Mentors to increase links with Victim services, increase wellbeing of the boy, help them cope and recover from their victimisation
Service Aims
- To address young offenders’ victimisation in order to reduce reoffending
- Provide a trauma-informed, through the gate service to prepare young people identified as victims, to engage with support in custody and services on release
- Focus on the cyclical relationship between crime-related trauma, adverse childhood experiences, being a victim on crime and reoffending
- Refer young people into existing community victim support services
- Improve young people’s long-term outcomes and achievements, but supporting them to build links, increase resilience and gain post-release community support
- Provide a service that enhances resettlement and reduces reoffending.
Referral Criteria
- Serving Detention & Training Orders (DTOs), those on remand and young people serving longer sentences which will see them serve no more than one year in the adult estate
- With a known history of crime-related trauma
- That self-report any crime-related or adverse childhood-related trauma (crimes do not need to have been officially reported)
- That identify as being a victim of crime
- That consent to engaging with the service
Service Provision
- Working with young prior and post release
- Initially 8 weeks
- Trauma informed 1-1 work
- Link to community victim support services
- Continued 1-1 support in the community
