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Rotherham Pathways Project Partnership Working Project Aims Targeting: 17-24 year olds At risk of or currently (low level) offending Experiencing mental distress Overusing emergency services Background blowing out the


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Rotherham Pathways Project

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Partnership Working

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Project Aims

Targeting:

  • 17-24 year olds
  • At risk of or currently (low level) offending
  • Experiencing mental distress
  • Overusing emergency services
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Background

  • ‘…blowing out the candles on an eighteenth

birthday cake does not magically transform anyone into a fully functioning, mature adult.’ [T2A: Pathways from Crime Summary Report 2012]

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Background

  • Young adults represent both the peak age for
  • ffending as well as being the time when a

young adult is most likely to desist from crime [T2A: Pathways from Crime Summary Report 2012]

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What can we offer?

  • 12 month intervention (flexible)
  • Psychologically informed support around ‘3

hardest things’

  • Liaising with and supporting other involved

agencies

  • Signposting/referring to services
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How do we do this?

  • Psychologically:
  • Using the therapeutic relationship as the most

important means of learning and facilitating change with the client

  • Extending that learning to everyday life

situations

  • Encouraging reflection and self-awareness
  • Contracting around challenging behaviour
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How do we do this?

  • Practically:
  • Accompanying clients to appointments
  • Supporting through the police and court process
  • Assistance with issues around housing, debt,

benefits, employment and training

  • Linking with community resources
  • Advocating on client’s behalf with other agencies
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Project Evaluation

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Websites

  • http://www.t2a.org.uk/publications/#all
  • http://www.barrowcadbury.org.uk/criminal-

justice/structurallevel/

  • www.together-uk.org