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The YSS Experience

The YSS Experience. Offender Mental Health. YSS. YSS has over 25 years experience of working with people who have offended and designing and developing innovate services to support them

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The YSS Experience

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  1. The YSS Experience Offender Mental Health

  2. YSS • 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 ant-social behaviour

  3. YSS Currently Commissioned by; • 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

  4. YSS Commissioned by: • 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

  5. YSS Criminal Justice Services (Youth) • 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

  6. YSS Criminal Justice Services (Adult) • 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

  7. YSS Adult Criminal Justice Services Continued • 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

  8. YSS Experiences • 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

  9. YSS Experiences • 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

  10. YSS Experiences • 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

  11. YSS Bradley Mental Health Project • Through support from Lloyds TSB Foundation YSS has employed 3 part time senior mental health workers • Sit alongside intensive support teams • Offer screening, advice, informationand 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

  12. YSS – Further development • 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

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