Transcript The YSS Experience

Offender Mental Health
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YSS has over 25 years experience of working
with people who have offended and designing
and developing innovate services to support
them
YSS works with over 2,000 people (children
and adults) a year who have offended are who
at high risk of offending or committing antsocial behaviour
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West Mercia Probation Trust
West Mercia YOS
West Mercia Police
Staffs & West Midlands Probation Trust
Ministry of Justice
Department of Work and Pensions
Shropshire Council
Worcestershire County Council
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Lloyds TSB Foundation
Barrow Cadbury Trust
Multiple grant making trusts
ESF
YSS Previously commissioned by;
The Home Office
Youth Justice Board
National Probation Directorate
National Offender Management Service
NOMS Co-financers
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Prevention from Offending programmes
Mentoring
Positive Activities
Targeted Youth Support
Volunteer Appropriate Adult Service
Bail Information and Support
Reparation Services
Specified Activities
Intensive Supervision and Surveillance
Intensive Resettlement Service
Junior Attendance Centre support
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Conditional Cautioning (Restorative Justice)
Intensive Control and Change Programme (18-20
year olds)
ACCLAIM (Intensive Supervision PPO project)
Pathways programme
Enhanced Support for Supervision (ESS)
Non Statutory Support for IOM (NSS)
Intensive Volunteer mentoring for PPO/IOM
Supporting Compliance programme(those at risk of
breach)
ETE (Employment/Training/Education)wide range of
services including vocational training, enhanced work
programme, job clubs, personal development, work
preparation, employer mentoring and 1-2-1 support
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Short Sentenced prisoners ‘through the gate’
(Connect)
Transition 2 Adulthood (T2A)
Bradley Mental Health project
AIM partnership (Family Support)
Accommodation Support Mentoring
Senior Attendance Centre (18 – 24 years)
Good Stuff - Social Enterprise (Café and
Furniture)
Care Farming @ The Fold CIC
1 Step Beyond strategy
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Mild to moderate mental health issues and
learning difficulties
Identified through longer term interventions
Typically depression, stress, anxiety, PTSD,
personality disorder
Multiple sub-threshold needs in terms of
mental health in addition to other 7 pathways
Double disadvantaged – health inequality and
difficulty to access services
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Complex needs and chaotic lifestyles
Inability to articulate concerns and to
navigate the system
Low aspirations – services intimidating
No voice to shape and influence services
Professional language needs interpreting
between mental health and criminal justice
practitioners
Professionals ‘wary’ of each system
Mental Health practitioners concerned re
offenders
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Opportunity with new commissioning
landscape within Mental Health and Criminal
Justice
Ability to access preventative services that
could support a decreased likelihood of
further offending
Particularly with young adults who are in a
revolving door – in and out of the criminal
justice system – lessons from T2A
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Through support from Lloyds TSB Foundation
YSS has employed 3 part time senior mental
health workers
Sit alongside intensive support teams
Offer screening, advice, information and
brokerage to services and train staff/vols
Ability to speak the right language, to knock
on the right doors, to navigate the system
and make referrals
Needs to be mainstreamed in 2014
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Through 1 Step Beyond want to create a
volunteer counselling service with local
partners
Has been piloted small scale in Worcester
Offered on an outreach basis with flexible
times
Provides a bridge whilst awaiting professional
services and introduces/prepares offenders
for accessing these services