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Helping offenders in recovery from addiction to break the cycle of crime and addiction by providing them with the support they need to rebuild and maintain healthy relationships with their loved one, which contributes fully to recovery and rehabilitation.
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Situation
Positive social connections can play a pivotal role in reducing reoffending: 39% of prisoners say that support from their family would help them to stop reoffending and 36% say that seeing their children would motivate them to stay away from crime (MOJ, 2017). However, over 40% of prisoners lose contact with their families when they enter prison and only 1 in 3 are supported by prison staff to rebuild and maintain ties with their families, due to chronic understaffing and underfunding.
Solution
Our Connections Service supports offenders with substance misuse issues (whose family dynamics are made more complex by their addiction and associated behaviours) to understand the impact of addiction on the lives of their family and loved ones. We help offenders to improve and maintain relationships with family members, and bring together their loved ones to help understand the nature of addiction and crime and how they can support their loved ones with recovery.
