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Supporting families that have been torn apart by substance misuse and imprisonment. Helping to rebuild, restore and retain healthy relationships and break the destructive intergenerational cycle of crime and addiction.
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Situation
Despite the pivotal role that healthy family relationships play in the rehabilitation of offenders, over 40% of those who suffer from addiction lose contact with their families when they go to prison. This can have a devastating impact on their mental health. Over half (57%) of prisoners we support suggest that their mental health has deteriorated since the Covid-19 pandemic and as a result of being locked up 24/7 without access to meaningful activities or family visits.
Solution
Working with male and female offenders with substance misuse issues, across four prisons in Surrey, we will help them understand the impact that addiction is having on the lives of their loved ones. We will educate their family members about addiction. We will address critical areas of concern between family members, such as communication, and we will help them rebuild fragile and broken relationships so that offenders have support mechanisms in place to move forward and prosper in their lives.
