Our Services

Reducing Reoffending 
Programme 

Mentoring Academy approach to reducing reoffending is to tackle the underlying issues that can contribute to an individual offending. Removing the practical blockages is the first step in that process, this both provides the individual with quick achievements but also helps to build the relationship between our mentors and the individual.

We work with the prison service, the National Probation Service, Local Authorities and the third sector in a collaborative approach to provide coordinated activities, interventions and support that aims to reduce reoffending and long term change within the individual.

This process often starts once the individuals leaves prison, our mentors work in probation offices, engaging in mentoring, fitness and sports sessions and helping to plan the support for when an individual has been released. This is where we start to build the trusting relationships that we will carry into the community programme.

Mentoring Academy delivers a full through the gate and beyond programme which includes meeting individuals on the day of release, this meeting is crucial in helping to address issues such as homelessness, anxiety and isolation which often occur on release.

At this stage our community programme will begin the process of developing an individual support plan, tackling the immediate practical blockages and the intensive longer term mentoring to change behaviours, attitudes, relationships and ultimately lives.

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