Building
Resilience in the Criminal Justice System – three points of administration and
practise
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When and
Where?
Date July 2
2014 Cost
£150
Location :
Central London
Time: full
day plus on line community afterwards to access as required.
What is
it?
Resilience is the ability to withstand or recover from difficult
situations. It's our inherent bounce back ability. It includes our capacity to
make the best of things, cope with stress and rise to the occasion. This
one-day workshop offers a practical training in skills, strategies and insights
that help our resilience grow. This intensive workshop is designed for all
those who come into contact with the criminal justice system, as practitioners
in probation services, solicitors, advocates or barristers or front line
counsellors. In an ever shifting commissioning landscape, which offers little
job security, and as austerity bites essential services, it is easy to absorb
secondary trauma from a complicated and vulnerable client group and also from
colleagues, being in the hostile litigation environment of a court and
negotiating our own places of safety and serenity.
With the emphasis on outcomes such as employment, housing and an
ever shrinking pool of resources, we need to work smart and think hard.
The training explores Transforming Rehabilitation, Chris
Grayling’s the new emphasis on pathways
out of offending and how it affects those delivering services, judges,
barristers and front line workers. Here, we explore opportunities for the client
to be at the heart of interventions which provide training, vocational qualifications and employment
opportunities but additionally and uniquely provide resilience training to address core issues of
safety, personal responsibility, confidence and aspiration.
We explore issues such as protected characteristics, ethnicity,
class and social standing, from a gender
sensitive, trauma informed approach.
We look at why women who commit crimes are often the same women who have suffered
extreme violence and been perpetrators and victims of appalling crimes. Ours is
a relational approach. This engages all the professionals and services working
with an individual to address the behavioural
patterns of a client’s experiences with the examination of interpersonal
relationships. By facilitating a safe and positive relationship in the security
of the environment, the client is armed with a stronger sense of self and
confidence. The primary goal of this technique is to empower the client with
the skills necessary to recognize and create productive and healthy
relationships. We strive to address any and all past and present relationship
traumas or impressions that have served to create discord in the present life
circumstances of the client. It is only be working from a community based
approach, that our clients and community can build, together, a safer community.
Drawing on the plot
structure of adventure stories, we will look at
key skills that raise our resilience:
• visioning skills that strengthen our sense of purpose by helping
us see, and then head for, the outcomes that attract us
• creative problem-solving skills that help us find a path through
the obstacles in the way
• positive relationship skills that enhance our ability to find
allies and draw in the support we need
• emotional intelligence skills that raise our capacity to work
with our emotions, so that we can benefit from the guiding signals and energy
they offer.
The day will involve a mix of
presentation, story telling, guided exercises and group discussion. The
goal is to increase each participant’s ability to draw upon the resilience they
need in their lives.
Our intensive workshops provide an opportunity to work with
leading members of our community and leaders in their respective field over the
course of a structured day session.
Who are
we?
Annell Smith
– Criminal Justice Specialist
Innovative and visionary leader with justice sector expertise.
Extensive experience encompasses public sector, central government,
consultancy, inter-governmental organisations and academia. Competent
post-graduate researcher, with exceptional verbal and written communication
skills and experience in operational, project and change management.
• Led operational delivery and implementation of women’s strategy
at London Probation Trust’s Women Centre.
• Operational implementation of the UK’s first Senior Attendance
Centre for women offenders, in support of LPT’s demand management strategy and
budget adjustments.
• Promoting women-centred delivery of interventions in line with
the 2006 Gender Equality duty and Equality act 2010.
• Discharged performance management, resource management
responsibilities and addressed capacity needs to deliver against monthly and
annual performance targets
Flo Krause
– Human Right Barrister
Firstly a legal aid solicitor in high street practices between
1992-1998, then a barrister, still legal aid, still passionate about social
justice. Flo is a leading human rights barrister , unhindered by any prospect
and she relishes a challenge. Her compassionate, common sense attitude and her
service to her clients who are amongst society’s outcasts, make her a valued
advocate and much admired opponent in the High Court, where most of her appeal
and human rights challenges are heard. She’s the champion of the abandoned and
distressed and has represented unpopular causes because, for her , the principle of justice is inviolable and
its access applicable to all.
Farah
Damji Founder Kazuri Properties CiC
Former offender, now a campaigner for women’s rights and social
justice will deliver the resilience and mindfulness sections of the training.
This is accredited by ASDAN. Farah
founded Kazuri Properties CiC after being released in 2007 and finding existing
services didn’t have boxes that suited the shape of her tick. So she created
her own. Since 2010 over 120 women have been safely housed and only 4 have been
convicted of new offences which lead to a custodial sentence. Farah is now working with private developers
to unlock social conscience and capital into the housing of disenfranchised
communities thus disrupting the market. These private / social partnerships
have the potential to join up fragmented circles of ultra-high net worth
individuals and those living in multiple exclusion which make London a capital
city but one of extremes.
For more information please contact Claire : info@kazuri.org.uk
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