Programmes

pROGRAMMES

In2Change

All our programmes are designed and delivered by our diverse team, who all have ‘lived experience’ from perpetrators to victims of crime. Our USP is using this diverse group to engage with young people with challenging behaviour who themselves are at risk of criminality.

Working in partnership with multiple universities, we can access students studying Sociology, Psychology, Criminology, Teaching and Medical. Partnership working helps in achieving student academic goals and enables In2Change to assist and enhance reporting for impact and evaluation on all programmes.

Volunteer experience for ex-offenders, prisoners and students

To date, In2Change have offered volunteer experience to 34 ex-offenders and serving prisoners and over 100 students. Of the 34 ex-offenders In2Change have worked with, 10 have gone onto gain full time employment with the charity.

Of the 34 ex-offenders and serving prisoners that In2Change have previously worked with, less than 9% have gone onto re-offend.

Compared to the national re-offending statistics of 29.6%, In2Change’s strategy of engaging ex-offenders and serving prisoners in purposeful employment is instrumental in reducing re-offending rates.

Student participation has seen numerous university achievements which can be seen on our success section.

View Our Success Stories

Helping to prevent reoffending

In2Change presents and delivers a series of targeted interventions that aid in the prevention of young people and ex-offenders becoming involved in criminal activities or recidivation.

Our variety of workshops offer the target group the opportunity to address underlying and fundamental issues which are barriers to progression such as:

Substance Misuse
Conflict Resolution
Offending and Reoffending Behaviour
School Exclusions
CSE/CCE and Safeguarding
County Lines
Domestic Violence
Independent Living and Employability
Extremism and Hate Crime

All programmes can be tailored to your needs and timescales. Price will be provided on application.

Programmes

Make A Change –

M.A.C. Project

(1 day)

A successful early intervention targeting young people, this intensive programme is factual and realistic charting the consequences of lived experienced staff with knowledge of crime and prison life. The “M.A.C.” Project is an initiative that aims to educated, reduce crime, anti-social behaviour and school exclusions amongst young people aged 10-16 and young adults 16-20. We support the rehabilitation of existing prisoners within Her Majesty’s Prisons.

The 10-16 programme is aimed at young people who are at risk of becoming involved in criminality, exclusion from school, or display risky behaviour. The 16-19 programme is for young adults who are at risk, involved in criminality or are repeat offenders. We have delivered this programme for 16 years and have countless success stories and endorsements. (see success page)

Presented by ex-offenders,

a lived experience team and students covering:

Prison Overview – All aspects of prison life
Stereotypes - Victim or offender?
Role play – Remedy to risky behaviour
Prison – Judicial process court and prison scenario
Family life – Consequences and impact
Missed opportunities in life

See our 2017 impact report below conducted by students from The University of Sheffield

M.A.C - Impact Study David SHU

I2C Charlie Domestic Abuse Report April 2020

Note: All I2C programmes are delivered by staff with ‘lived experience’, DBS clearance, and appropriate safeguarding training.

Time 2 leave (Domestic abuse programme)

With a significant increase in domestic abuse cases

IN2CHANGE have designed a programme, funded by South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit, that aims to educate young people and adults regarding the dangers of domestic abuse and coercive behaviours. Whilst the programme primarily targets young people, this does not exclude delivery to adults, teachers, and other organisations.

'Time 2 leave’ will demonstrate the domino effect, how different categories of domestic abuse can lead to many overlapping challenges that cause multiple disadvantages. These include intercepting needs leading to poor mental health, coercive control, substance misuse behaviour, misconduct, or criminal activity. The course will give the opportunity for delegates to share their own experiences and can be sign posted for help and support. This will be delivered at two levels to accommodate different educational needs.

PROGRAMME CONTENT:
INTRODUCTION – Meet the team.

DA EDUCATION - Using roll play and presentations we discuss and explore types of abuse, how to spot signs/ early indicators of an abuser and effects of abuse on victims and perpetrators.

SIGNPOST - Discuss what help and support is available and encourage posters and resources to be available at school for reporting abuse or uncomfortable circumstances potentially being experienced.

DA STORY – Introduction to lived experience speaker of their abuse.

Q&A – questions from the group.

ACTIVITIES – Interactive follow up sessions available for those who feel they need support, individually or as a group. Topics covered include: healthy relationships, building support networks, seeking help etc.

BY DOING SO WE:

- Improve family cohesion.

- Create a safer environment for young people.

- Educate how to seek help for DA.

- Reduce risks to young people by enhanced education on abuse.

- Encourage young people to report abuse..

- Educate on the signs and indicators of abuse.

- Create an understanding of healthy relationships.

- Encourage the use and understanding of trauma informed practice.

Gangs, guns and knives

A powerful programme designed to help empower young people to avoid the allure of street gangs and organised crime and raise awareness about the reality of gang life and the misery it inflicts upon entire communities.

Course content:

Why young people join gangs
The reality of gang life
Consequences of being involved or associated with gangs
Legal ramifications
Family affected
Prison
Violence and injuries

County Lines "outta town"

An impactive programme designed to make young people aware of the dangers of criminal gangs that will look to exploit young people. This programme covers various aspects of criminal exploitation.

This programme covers various aspects of criminal exploitation and the impact of county lines and is aimed at secondary school or 7-11 year groups.

CIRCUMSTANCES THAT LEAD TO COUNTY LINES:

Mental Health Issues
Lack of safe/stable environment
Substance abuse issues
Being in care
Economic vulnerability
Homelessness
Social Difficulties
Physical or learning disabilities
Secure Units
Prison
Death

"We need to educate all our children in South Yorkshire to make safer communities, save lives and help vulnerable families" - IN2CHANGE STAFF

Course content:

What is county lines trafficking?
Who are the targets?
Who is involved?
The real risk of county lines
The grooming processes
Violence and consequences

Time 4 Change

(6-week programme) and Pshe

A 6-week intensive mentor support package that fully compliments the “M.A.C.” programme targeting problematic areas, working with young people in schools, pupil referral units, and exclusion centres.

Course content:

This course can be tailor-made to address the following issues prevalent to organisations/young people experiencing:

Bullying
Identifies issues and consequences of bullying from a victim and prisoner's perspective.
Substance Misuse
Shows the hierarchy of drugs and gives an insight to the dangers and escalation of
low-level drug use
Attitudes, thinking and behaviour
Challenges young people into what is right and wrong, their respect of authority and parents
Diversity
Raising the awareness of cultural differences within a learning environment, challenging integration.
Truancy
Seen from an ex-offender's point of view, the effects, the damage, and social exclusion
Crime and Consequences
Effects of crime, victim awareness and codes of ethic

All the above are delivered by staff with ‘lived experience’ DBS clearance and safeguarding training.

drugs and alcohol abuse amongst young people

Drug and alcohol abuse amongst young people has been on the rise across South Yorkshire. Our team and university graduates have conducted an in-depth research regarding this issue.

We have created a programme that is delivered by our lived experienced team, which covers different types of drug and alcohol abuse within the young people culture.

Course content:

Drugs / Alcohol - this part of the presentation will name different types of drug and alcohol abuse amongst young people.

Short-term / Long- term effects of alcohol and drugs - this section will inform of the side-effects o short-term/ long-term use of both alcohol and drugs.

Drug classifications - this section will be information on different types of drug categories and how the criminal justice system categorise these drugs for sentencing.

Sentencing and convictions for possession, conspiracy and supply - this section covers sentencing and conviction of having the drugs or supplying drugs to others.

Unhealthy relationships and peer pressure - focuses on how peer pressure and unhealthy relationships can lead to drug and alcohol abuse.

Withdrawal - this section covers withdrawal symptoms of long-term/ short-term alcohol and drug abuse.

Support and Help - helps to give understanding how to get appropriate and sufficient support with drug / alcohol abuse.

Y.E.S - Youth early support programme

Our current Make A Change (M.A.C) Programme targets 11-16 year olds and aims to help young people who are at risk of entering the justice system. This is something that younger children cannot relate to.

Our new Y.E.S programme is tailored towards 8-12 year olds. This will be done by adapting the M.A.C programme using information from the latest research and taking inspiration from other groups in the local area. A key change is that instead of displaying a mock prison cell as we do in M.A.C, we will have a mock secure children's home room.

HOW THIS RUNS:

As supported by research, it will be:

A one day course
Delivered in 30 minute intervals
Interactive workshops
Role play including mock court and secure children's room.

Hate Crime Programme

Hate crime has been on the rise within the South Yorkshire (SY) regent. Hate can be any crime or incident motivated by the person appearance, race, sexuality, identity, religion or identity.

In2Change wants to bring awareness regarding this subject by delivering this programme around SY and the impact that Hate Crime has on individuals.

Course content:

What is Hate Crime?
Categories of Hate Crime
Sentencing and Convictions for Hate Crime
Impact of Hate Crime
How to get Help if you are a victim of hate crime, or how to help anyone who has been a victim of hate crime.

Spiking programme

We have recently introduced our new Spiking Programme to our repertoire and have already seen great interest in it from schools and universities. It is very important for young people to have greater awarness of spiking and our lived experience speaker to use their story to help educate young people and adults on this very serious and growing issue.

The programme covers the following:

What is spiking?
Different types of spiking - this will include ways and different drugs that someone can use and do to spike an individual. This part of the presentation will also include side effects of the most common drugs used for spiking and their symptoms.
Ways to stay safe on a night out - this will cover how to make sure you are safe from getting spiked.
How to help someone who you think has been spiked - includes contacts and information on how to report spiking and how to help victims of spiking.
Lived experience - Our lived experience staff will tell their story on how it happened to them and how it has effected them.

Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) programme

The CSE programme will be delivered by trauma informed practitioner, that will be used for educational and awareness purposes for young people.

It is crucial for young individuals to be aware of grooming and CSE risks and to know the signs.

COURSE CONTENT:

What CSE is?
Knowing Signs of CSE.
Categories of CSE.
How to seek help if you are a victim or know anyone who is a victim of CSE.

Anti-social behaviour & dark Nights

Street Crime has been continuous throughout the years in South Yorkshire. We as a team partnered up with South Yorkshire Police to target young people in designated areas to gain statistics on what happens on the streets.

This allows us to gather information about:

New street terminology / slang
New trends and innovations
Cultural Awareness
What crime are prevalent in what communities
Strategies for early intervention.

"Some of our projects for 'Dark Nights' have been across Rotherham, Page Hall, Pitsmoor and Broomhall".

Course content:

What is Anti-social Behaviour?
Examples of Anti-social behaviour - this will include different ways of how anti-social behaviour happens.
Terminology and new trends of anti-social behaviour.
Strategies for early intervention.
Consequences of anti-social behaviour.

Consultancy Packages –

(1 Week) P.O.A.

In2Change have successfully delivered targeted crime awareness programmes to over 30,000 young people that are ‘at risk’, vulnerable, socially excluded or involved in criminality since 2007.

The success of our bespoke programmes comes from a team who all have ‘lived experience’ that have presented nationally and engaged young people from a diverse background.

Our success has been highlighted on national television, including Ross Kemp’s Knife Crime on ITV and Channel 5’s Gangland. As a result, we have received numerous communications from organisations who wish to utilise our model.

We have already assisted in the development of a centre in Manchester and have created a centre of excellence in Bradford, which was supported by the Police and a local MP.

The success of this project can be measured in its outcomes:

This 1-week course will showcase all our programmes, how to design/build your own workplace, the ‘specialists’ needed to deliver, costs, relevant partnerships and evaluations of what can be achieved. It will also discuss grants and funding achieved over the years and give an insight as to working with communities.

Crime is constantly evolving and as a result, individuals working in this sector can benefit from familiarising themselves with some of the following: