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19 results foundAuthor: Kelley-Baker, Tara Title: Citizen Reporting of DUI - Extra Eyes to Identify Impaired Driving Summary: The concept of citizen reporting of impaired driving has been in place for decades in the United States but has not been carefully evaluated as a separate countermeasure. NHTSA has taken the initiative to look more closely at a citizen reporting program to assess whether such programs are potentially effective in helping to reduce impaired driving. Montgomery County, Maryland, has created a highly focused variant of the citizen reporting concept, called Operation Extra Eyes, in which private citizens are trained in DUI detection cues and equipped with communication devices so they can report suspected impaired drivers to the police more directly and quickly. Community volunteers are deployed during times of intensified enforcement, such as saturation patrols, allowing police to respond more quickly to potential violations. This activity is Supplemented by student volunteers who are stationed in arrest processing areas and assist police officers in fulfilling DUI paperwork requirements. Information for this evaluation was gathered from interviews with key participants, from surveys of patrol officers, and from surveys of Motor Vehicle Administration customers. Addition data were obtained from state and local crash records. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Office of Impaired Driving and Occupant Protection Source: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation Year: 2006 Country: United States URL: Shelf Number: 116482 Keywords: Driving Under the InfluenceDrunk DrivingVolunteers |
Author: Grayton, Lucy Title: Swansea Community Chaplaincy Project: Evaluation of the Swansea Community Chaplaincy Project at HMP Swansea October 2006 - March 2008 Summary: The Community Chaplaincy Project with HMP Swansea provides support to offenders during the bridging process between custody and reintegration into the community using the established skills and expertise of the faith and voluntary sector. This evaluation examines the efficacy of the Community Chaplaincy Project by examining both the impact and the process, identifying areas of effective working practice and areas that could be improved. Details: Canterbury, UK: University of Kent, 2008. 103p. Source: Internet Resource Year: 2008 Country: United Kingdom URL: Shelf Number: 118728 Keywords: Chaplains (U.K.)ChurchesReentry (U.K.)Reintegration, OffendersVolunteers |
Author: Olotu, Michael Title: Evaluation Report: LifeLine Program Summary: In 1976, Canada removed the death sentence from its Criminal Code and replaced it with a life sentence disposition. There was a need to tailor the approach to target this group of offenders who are incarcerated for lengthy periods. In 1991, the LifeLine Program was implemented in collaboration with a community-based agency in the Ontario Region. The LifeLine Program is a voluntary program designed to provide support to offenders who are serving life or indeterminate sentences. Support is provided through in-reach workers who themselves are lifers or long-term offenders who are on parole and who have been living in the community without incident for at least five years. Their unique understanding and experience of serving a life or long-term sentence enables them to provide other lifers and offenders with indeterminate sentences with support based on those direct experiences. Currently, the LifeLine Program is a national program that involves three components: in-reach services, community support, and public awareness. The LifeLine mission statement is “to provide, through the in-reach and community components, an opportunity to motivate inmates and to marshal resources to achieve successful, supervised, gradual integration into the community”. The goal of the program is for the in-reach workers to meet with lifers and offenders with indeterminate sentences early in their sentence and assist in their adaptation and eventual integration into the correctional environment. Program delivery is managed through contractual service agreements with community agencies that are responsible for the three elements of the delivery model. A steering committee is responsible for providing leadership and direction to the LifeLine Program. The regional coordinators are responsible for managing the contracts with the respective community agencies in their region. The agencies hire, train and supervise the in-reach workers. Administrative and operational leadership is provided by the Assistant Commissioner, Public Affairs and Parliamentary Relations. This report examines the following issues relating to the program: continued relevance of the program; implementation of the program; success of the program; and cost effectiveness. Details: Ottawa: Correctional Service Canada, Evaluation Branch, Policy Sector, 2009. 84p. Source: Internet Resource: File #394-2-60: Accessed October 15, 2010 at: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pa/ev-ll/ev-ll-eng.pdf Year: 2009 Country: Canada URL: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pa/ev-ll/ev-ll-eng.pdf Shelf Number: 119989 Keywords: InmatesLife SentenceLifersVolunteers |
Author: Blazek, Matej Title: Plusone Mentoring: Evaluation Summary: plusone mentoring is an early intervention programme that uses a voluntary mentoring approach to engage with young people aged mainly 8 to 14 years who are deemed at high risk of future offending. It combines the School, Social Work, Police and Community model with a youth work model which emphasises community involvement and responsive practice in work with young people. plusone mentoring operates with a theory of change that draws on evidence that there are key risk factors for future offending that can be tackled at a young age (such as aggression and violent behaviour, disruptive family and personal relationships, perception of self and others, poor self-esteem, or challenging behaviour in home, school or community). The nature of such risks means that long-term and client-centred approaches to mentoring are required. Multiagency referral groups in three locations in Scotland (Bellshill, Perth and Kirkaldy/Levenmouth), which comprise Police, Social Work, NHS, Education, Community Wardens and other agencies refer young people who are assessed as having high or very high risk of future offending to the plusone mentoring programme, which is based at local YMCA centres. Programme managers for plusone mentoring, based at the YMCA, recruit and trains volunteer mentors, match them to work with young people and supervise the mentoring process. Over the first full year of plusone mentoring: • 47 young people had been involved in mentoring; • Young people gave the experience of mentoring a high value and identified mentors as having important roles in providing support, undertaking activities which provided alternatives to boredom and antisocial behaviour, providing advice, and acting as mediators to other institutions; • Among young people who had been involved in plusone mentoring for at least six months, there was evidence of considerable improvement across the range of risk factors, with improvement particularly marked in relation to young people’s behaviour, their attitudes to offending, the risk for the young people associated with their neighbourhood, and the young people’s skills and positive relationships; • 80 adults had been recruited and trained as volunteer mentors; • Volunteer mentors have been drawn from a range of social and geographical backgrounds to work with the young people; • Mentors valued opportunities to develop their skills in working with young people, to deepen their understanding of the complex situations in which many young people find themselves, and to develop their attitudes in a non-judgemental way. Undertaking volunteer mentoring was also a means by which many volunteers developed skills which they saw as being of positive use in a variety of social and caring professions; • Established networks and local reputation of the YMCA were central in recruiting volunteers and in encouraging families to let the young person participate in plusone mentoring. Our evaluation of plusone mentoring is that it has had a positive impact on the lives of young people at a high level of risk of offending. It has effectively adopted a youth work approach using volunteer mentors, and demonstrates a range of best practice in mentoring, including: • Long-term, frequent and regular engagement • Careful attention to how mentors and mentees are matched • Young people understand the voluntary nature of their participation and the focus on their needs • Detailed monitoring and supervision of mentors • Successful targeting of young people fitting the scope of the programme so mentoring does not aim to replace other specialised services where these are more appropriate. Details: Dundee, UK: University of Dundee, 2011. 92p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 5, 2011 at: http://lx.iriss.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/plusone_evaluation1.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://lx.iriss.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/plusone_evaluation1.pdf Shelf Number: 122314 Keywords: Delinquency PreventionJuvenile DelinquencyMentoring (U.K.)Volunteers |
Author: Volunteers in Police Service Title: Volunteers in Police Service Add Value While Budgets Decrease Summary: While the current economic crisis has led law enforcement agencies to have to cut staff and programs, the use of volunteers remains consistent or, in some cases, has increased. Many agencies have responded to the tough financial climate by training and placing volunteers in duties not previously performed by volunteers. To help agencies think creatively about potential volunteer roles, the latest VIPS publication, Volunteers in Police Service Program Add Value While Budgets Decrease, highlights innovative ways agencies around the country are engaging citizens and increasing their reach in the community. Details: Alexandria, VA: Volunteers in Police Service, 2011. 46p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 18, 2012 at: http://www.policevolunteers.org/resources/pdf/volunteers_police_service_add_value_while_budgets_decrease.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.policevolunteers.org/resources/pdf/volunteers_police_service_add_value_while_budgets_decrease.pdf Shelf Number: 123656 Keywords: Police AgenciesPolice BudgetsPolice DepartmentsVolunteers |
Author: Wolf, Angela M. Title: Operating and Managing Street Outreach Services Summary: Increasingly, cities have added street outreach to the mix of strategies used in comprehensive gang reduction efforts, drawing upon mounting evidence of impact. Street outreach relies on street workers to support and advocate on behalf of gang members, or those at high risk of joining gang, to change behavior patterns and link them to needed services and institutions. Street outreach workers work day and night to link marginalized and hard-to-serve individuals in communities with high levels of gang activity to social services, and play an important role in diffusing and stopping violence (Decker, Bynum, McDevitt, Farrell, & Varano, 2008; Spergel, 1966; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention [OJJDP], 2002). These workers reach out to targeted community members at their homes, community events, on street corners, in parks, and in any neighborhood spaces where community members in gangs or at risk of joining gangs spend time (OJJDP, 2002, p. 54). Outreach workers often possess intimate familiarity with the communities in which they work. Their knowledge and skills allow them to work with individuals whom traditional service providers cannot access or support. California Cities Gang Prevention Network cities (the Network or CCGPN) note that street outreach services are an important piece of their cities’ primary intervention strategies, with ties to prevention and enforcement. Cities such as Stockton provide prevention-oriented outreach to clients at risk of gang involvement. Other Network cities, including San Francisco, follow the Chicago CeaseFire model—a violence reduction model that treats violence as a learned behavior that can be prevented using disease control methods. The Chicago Ceasefire approach directs outreach workers to prevent retaliation and intervene in conflicts to prevent escalation to violence. Like Network cities, High Point, North Carolina, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, use outreach services as a promising component of their cities’ crime prevention and intervention strategies. As a collaborative, community-based approach aiming to combat open-air drug markets, the High Point initiative employs outreach services to establish relationships and provide services to lowlevel street drug dealers and their families (Bass, 2009; Kennedy, 2007; Schoofs, 2008). Similarly, in Rio de Janeiro, outreach workers work closely with street children involved with the drug trade to provide them with housing and services, and to stifle gang activity (Sauma, 2008). and sustaining outreach programs. In particular, they find it challenging to operate and manage outreach services. Operating an outreach program can include dealing with a variety of dangers. Without weapons or bulletproof vests, outreach workers insert themselves into dangerous and violent situations to prevent or stop violence; they risk and sometimes become the targets of gang violence (Bass, 2008; Decker, 2011; Fenton, 2009). Operating an outreach program also involves securing and maintaining healthy relationships with law enforcement and communities. For outreach workers to perform their duties, law enforcement must be supportive and knowledgeable about the role and function of outreach workers. They must also be comfortable working with outreach workers with criminal records, in addition to not pressuring outreach workers to serve as an extension of law enforcement. If law enforcement and outreach programs do not mutually trust each other, it can reduce an outreach organization’s credibility among the community it serves and, consequently, its ability to reduce violence (Bass, 2009). A common fear among Network cities is outreach workers being arrested or misrepresenting their outreach organization. Such incidents could create negative credibility for cities and outreach organizations among important partners like the police department, the community, and clients. Maintaining a fully staffed outreach program is a longstanding challenge. Outreach work is inevitably stressful because it exposes outreach workers to dangerous and traumatic events. Because of the risky and stressful nature of outreach work, many outreach workers leave the profession after only a few years. Consequentially, outreach programs must make every effort to support and sustain current workers, and at the same time prepare to hire and train new outreach workers. This bulletin briefly explores the different types of outreach services that currently exist. Additionally, with examples from Network cities such as Richmond, San Francisco, and Oakland, as well as from outreach programs in High Point, North Carolina; Boston, Massachusetts; and Chicago, Illinois, this bulletin identifies ways outreach programs can strategically support, care for, and hire outreach workers as a way of managing the challenges of implementing an outreach program. Details: Oakland, CA: National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 2011. 7p. Source: The California Cities Gange Prevention Network: Bulletin 22: Internet Resource: Accessed February 19, 2012 at http://www.ccgpn.org/Publications/CA%20Cities%20Bulletin%2022.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.ccgpn.org/Publications/CA%20Cities%20Bulletin%2022.pdf Shelf Number: 124193 Keywords: Crime Prevention ProgramsGangs (California)Intervention ProgramsVolunteers |
Author: Rennison, Claire Title: ViP- Volunteering in Probation Evaluation of the Kirklees Mentoring Project Summary: The Kirklees Mentoring Project was a 12 month pilot partnership between West Yorkshire Probation Trust and Foundation. Its aim was to improve the successful completion rates of Community Orders in Kirklees, to break down barriers to compliance and assist offenders to build pro-social links within the community. It also aimed to provide positive role models from members of the local community some of whom are ex-offenders themselves. This report is an evaluation of the partnership. Data was collected and analysed via pre and post mentoring questionnaires, file reads of mentee case files and interviews with offenders, Offender Managers, volunteers and Foundation representatives. The report presents the findings gained from this information and recommendations for practice. Details: Wakefield, UK: West Yorkshire Probation Trust, 2011. 55p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 5, 2013 at: http://www.westyorksprobation.org.uk/documentlist.php?type=1&year=2011 Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.westyorksprobation.org.uk/documentlist.php?type=1&year=2011 Shelf Number: 128267 Keywords: MentoringPartnershipsProbation (U.K.)ProbationersVolunteers |
Author: John Scougall Title: Keeping People Safe: An evaluation of the Nyoongar Patrol Outreach Service Summary: NPS is the only Aboriginal patrol service operating in the Perth metropolitan area. There have been many It began in 1998 as a fledgling volunteer managed service operating only three night patrols each week. Through many years of hard work NPS transformed itself into a professionally structured organisation with a strong board, experienced CEO and seventeen fulltime staff, all of whom participate in a programme of professional development. There are a further seven trained casual staff. Description of the Service The objectives of the NPS are: Safety and harmony Referring people who are in need to agencies that can assist Transporting people to safety Partnering and cooperating with other agencies Remaining a strong viable organisation with a professional reputation Providing greater social and economic support to youth. The NPS currently delivers a range of community services which contribute to community safety: Conflict mediation and defusion of incidents Street level support to the homeless Youth support and child protection Street level linkage of people to health services Employment and training Policy advocacy and planning input. The crime prevention role of NPS receives the most emphasis and is the source of most current funding, but it is not the only street level service NPS provides. There is a need to ensure that performance measures are in place to enable progress in all areas of service delivery to be measured. There is also a need to ensure the organisation is adequately funded to provide these services. Strategies used by NPS to deliver its services include: Street patrols to maintain a visible presence Referral of people to other services including shelters and refuges Providing diversionary transport to a safe place Improving cooperation and relationships between Aboriginal people, the business community, police and other services. The NPS is about early detection of Aboriginal people in jeopardy. The target group are Aboriginal people in public places in Perth whose safety is at risk. Youth, the homeless and people affected by substances are amongst the primary beneficiaries. Desired outcomes expected as the result of the work of the NPS include: a safer community fewer incidents reduced assault and violence reduced property damage and robbery reduced detention and arrests by police reduced homelessness better access to services by people at risk reduced truancy reduced child abuse a more effective community safety service sector. Details: Victoria Park, AU: John Scougall Consulting Services, 2012. 94p. Source: Internet Resource: Accesssed August 5, 2013 at: http://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/docs/Keeping_People_Safe_NPS-Report.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Australia URL: http://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/docs/Keeping_People_Safe_NPS-Report.pdf Shelf Number: 129531 Keywords: AboriginalsCrime PreventionPolice PatrolPublic SpacesStreet PatrolsVolunteers |
Author: Closing the Gap Clearinghouse Title: The role of community patrols in improving safety in Indigenous communities Summary: Summary Community patrols have the potential to increase Indigenous community safety. They can assist in reducing crime rates and alcohol-related harm and empower the local community. The most successful community patrols tend to enjoy community involvement and ownership and strong collaboration with police and a network of community services. This paper summarises the key evidence in support of community patrols. It also summarises some of the evidence on best practice. What we know • Lack of safety in Indigenous communities in urban, regional and remote areas, adversely affects the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are over-represented as both perpetrators and victims of violent crime. This is confirmed by high hospitalisation and death rates due to assault, and by high detention and police apprehension rates for Indigenous people for ‘acts intended to cause injury’. • Community patrols vary in how they operate, reflecting the needs of their particular community. Their functions include safe transportation for those at risk of causing or being the victims of harm; dispute resolution and mediation; interventions to prevent self-harm, family violence, homelessness and substance misuse; and diversion from contact with the criminal justice system. Community patrols cooperate closely with other community-based programs and initiatives as well as the local police unit. • Indigenous community patrols are one type of safety initiative among a range of initiatives that are directly or indirectly designed to improve community safety. Together these initiatives enable a holistic approach to improving community safety. • Community patrols need to be independent from the police and justice sector, to allow them to take a flexible approach and keep their communities’ trust; however, good relationships with local police are crucial for the functioning of community patrols. Details: Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2013. Source: Internet Resource: Resource sheet no. 20: Accessed August 12, 2013 at: http://www.aihw.gov.au/uploadedFiles/ClosingTheGap/Content/Publications/2013/ctg-rs20.pdf Year: 2013 Country: Australia URL: http://www.aihw.gov.au/uploadedFiles/ClosingTheGap/Content/Publications/2013/ctg-rs20.pdf Shelf Number: 129625 Keywords: Community Patrols (Australia)Indigenous PeoplesVolunteers |
Author: Rowe, Sophie Title: New Bridge Befriending Service: Evaluation Report Summary: The New Bridge Foundation has been supporting offenders for over 50 years. The charity connects prisoners with the community via a national network of volunteers, with the intention of improving well-being and ultimately contributing to a reduction in reoffending. This report is the culmination of an exercise to formally evaluate the Befriending Service, its impact upon the wellbeing of prisoners and to highlight any changes in attitude and behaviour that may make a contribution to reducing reoffending. This review of New Bridge's Befriending Service comes at a time when the government is attempting to balance high levels of imprisonment with a "rehabilitation revolution". The Prime Minister's recent speech from the Centre for Social Justice reiterated the need for rehabilitation and integration in the community to begin in prison. The move to further introduce a system of payment by results means evidence of impact is crucial for voluntary sector contributors. Through a questionnaire administered to prisoners and volunteers, this report documents the importance of creating links between the offender and the community for successful rehabilitation and provides an evaluation of the impact on those involved. Based on responses from 153 prisoners and 67 volunteers, this report is able to conclude that the befriending scheme has promoted a number of positives outcomes. In relation to offenders the dominant ones are: Increased motivation to re-establish contacts with those in the community, including family, friends and those working within support organisations Improved self-esteem and confidence The opportunity to challenge their thinking about criminal behaviour More positive thinking about their current and future lives A move towards a more positive sense of personal identity These outcomes indicate that long-term befriending of prisoners helps them to work towards successful re-integration into the community and reduce the likelihood of reoffending. Details: London: New Bridge Foundations, 2012. 24p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 13, 2013 at: http://www.newbridgefoundation.org.uk/assets/files/NB-EvaluationReport.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.newbridgefoundation.org.uk/assets/files/NB-EvaluationReport.pdf Shelf Number: 131645 Keywords: Mentoring (U.K.)RehabilitationVolunteers |
Author: Armstrong, Sarah Title: A Review of the Fife Circles of Support and Accountability Project Commissioned By Sacro Summary: This report presents an independent review of the Fife Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA or Circles) project run by Sacro. Circles target people convicted of sex offences who are at high risk of reoffending and social isolation. They bring a group of volunteers from the community together with the offender, called the core member, to support and hold him to account. The aims of the research were to document and assess the operation and consider the progress of the Fife Circles project over the four years of its existence. The research gathered views of those involved in the Circles scheme, observed practices on site and reviewed the available literature and programme documents to assess whether the Fife CoSA supports overall risk management of a concerning group of offenders. A key question of this research is whether an offender's risk of reoffending is likely to have been affected by the involvement in a circle. Details: Edinburgh: Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, 2014. 48p. Source: Internet Resource: Report No. 04/2014: Accessed August 12, 2014 at: http://www.sccjr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Sacro-Fife-Circles-Final-Report-30-May-2014.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.sccjr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Sacro-Fife-Circles-Final-Report-30-May-2014.pdf Shelf Number: 133019 Keywords: RecidivismSex Offender TreatmentSex Offenders (Scotland)Volunteers |
Author: Millie, Andrew Title: Employee volunteering and the Special Constabulary: a reviw of employer policies Summary: The research conducted for this study had three broad aims. The first of these was to examine the attitudes of large employers in the private sector to staff participation in voluntary work. Thus, the study was concerned with the various ways in which employers actively encourage employee volunteering, the extent to which employee volunteering is treated as an integral component of 'corporate social responsibility' (CSR), and the kinds of rationales for supporting voluntary work to which employers subscribe. The second aim of the research was to look more specifically at whether employers have provisions for or actively encourage staff involvement in the Special Constabulary: that is, the voluntary section of the local police force. Hence the research looked at the extent to which volunteering for the Special Constabulary is included within wider voluntary work policies, is specified as a particular goal, or is not covered by such policies. The third aim of the study built on the first and second: that is, the study has sought to use the research findings on volunteering to identify opportunities for the Special Constabulary to widen employer support for the organisation. By reviewing existing policies on employee volunteering, and attitudes of employers to the Special Constabulary, the intention was to consider ways in which employer support for the Special Constabulary might relate to other CSR goals, and to explore the scope for raising awareness of the Specials among both employers and employees. Details: London: Police Foundation, 2002. 30p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 23, 2015 at: https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/958/1/Millie%20and%20Jacobson%202002%20-%20report.pdf Year: 2002 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/958/1/Millie%20and%20Jacobson%202002%20-%20report.pdf Shelf Number: 131824 Keywords: Policing (U.K.)Special ConstabularyVolunteers |
Author: CIRCA Group Europe Limited Title: Reserve Police Forces. An investigation into roles, responsibilities, training and deployment; and Danish Police Servivce, best practice alternative Summary: The purpose of the research was twofold: - To identify how many of the original EU-15 countries have a part-time reserve police force - To explore at greater depth a number of aspects of selected part-time reserve police forces. The methodology covered the following phases: a survey of the original EU-15 member states to identify which states had a reserve police force and a telephone survey of five countries - Canada, Finland, New South Wales (Australia), the Netherlands and Scotland. A 'reserve police force' in the context of this report is defined as a part-time police force who's members have other full-time occupations and whose duties are usually limited to 8 hours or 4 hours duty per week. They are known as 'Special Constables' in the UK, Australia and Canada. In the European Union of 15 members, 12 countries have no reserve police force. The following countries do have a reserve police force: - UK - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - The Netherlands - Germany The other 12 of EU-15 Member States do not have a reserve police force. They are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Luxemburg, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Details: Dublin: CIRCA Group Europe, 2006. 113p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 23, 2015 at: http://www.gra.cc/Circa_Garda_Reserve_Report-4-1-.pdf Year: 2006 Country: International URL: http://www.gra.cc/Circa_Garda_Reserve_Report-4-1-.pdf Shelf Number: 134669 Keywords: Police AgenciesPolicing (Europe)Special ConstablesVolunteers |
Author: Kelley-Baker, Tara Title: Implementing a Citizen's DWI Reporting Program Using the Extra Eyes Model Summary: This manual is a guide for law enforcement agencies and community organizations in creating and implementing a citizen's DWI reporting program in their communities modeling the Operation Extra Eyes program. Extra Eyes is a program that engages volunteers in identifying impaired drivers on community roadways. This manual is a quick reference for organizing and managing this volunteer program. It provides easy-to-read information on topics such as recruiting volunteers, interviewing volunteers, risk management, networking, community involvement, and leadership. A citizen's DWI reporting program like Extra Eyes is a valuable tool for bringing together citizens and law enforcement in a community. Working together toward a common goal-reducing impaired driving and the associated costs-can be an effective way to generate support among community members. Though not a quick or simple process, the program is a good investment in a community's future. The key to success is the interaction between volunteers and police officers. Involving citizens and students in the process garners community support and promotes a better understanding of law enforcement officers and the problems they face. Additionally, law enforcement officers strengthen their relationships with citizens and students in the community, which enables them to provide better service. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Office of Impaired Driving and Occupant Protection, 2008. 148p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 30, 2015 at: https://mcs.nhtsa.gov/index.cfm/product/447/implementing-a-citizens-dwi-reporting-program-using-the-extra-eyes-model-manual.cfm Year: 2008 Country: United States URL: https://mcs.nhtsa.gov/index.cfm/product/447/implementing-a-citizens-dwi-reporting-program-using-the-extra-eyes-model-manual.cfm Shelf Number: 135078 Keywords: Community-Based ProgramsDriving Under the InfluenceDrunk DrivingVolunteers |
Author: Wadia, Avan Title: The Informal Mentoring Project: A Process Evaluation Summary: The Mentoring and Befriending Foundation define mentoring as "a voluntary, mutually beneficial and purposeful relationship in which an individual gives time to support another to enable them to make changes in their life". The Informal Mentoring Project was introduced by NOMS and Clinks with the aim of increasing the support available for offenders leaving prison, helping them to reintegrate into society and move towards desistance from crime. It was envisaged that the Informal Mentoring Project would: - provide short-term "light touch" mentoring so that offenders could receive one-to-one support following their release from prison and access services in the community - capacity build existing local organisations to provide mentoring for offenders and - enable offenders to build supportive, trusting relationships with local community members through using local volunteers (including ex-offenders) as mentors. Two organisations ran pilot projects, selected for their differing infrastructure models. Catch22, a national charity, worked with local providers to mentor offenders released from HMP Nottingham. Sefton CVS, a local infrastructure organisation, recruited mentors to work with offenders from HMP Liverpool resettling in the Liverpool and Sefton areas. This report summarises the findings from a process evaluation examining the set-up and implementation of the project. The evaluation ran from March 2011 to November 2012. Although the pilot and evaluation pre-date the Transforming Rehabilitation proposals, the lessons learnt are relevant for understanding the benefits and challenges of undertaking mentoring with offenders, and providing services "through the gate". Details: London: National Offender Management Service, 2015. 75p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 30, 2015 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/448803/informal-mentoring-project.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/448803/informal-mentoring-project.pdf Shelf Number: 136263 Keywords: MentoringPrisoner ReentryRehabilitationVoluntary and Community OrganizationsVolunteers |
Author: Sandhu, Jatinder Title: 'Young Adult Offender Volunteer Mentoring' Project Evaluation Summary: In early 2013, the Safer Nottinghamshire Board (SNB) through the Reducing Reoffending Delivery Board, provided Nottinghamshire Probation Trust (NPT) with funding to shape a number of 'reoffending reduction' interventions with young adult offenders. Further to consultation with members of the Young Adult Offender (YAO) Project Group and Offender Managers working in the semi-specialist young adult team within the NPT, on ideas for using this funding a decision was made to use a proportion of these monies to design and deliver mentoring interventions for a small cohort of young adult offenders. Broadly, offenders were considered in-scope of this pilot project, providing they fulfilled the following criteria: 1) Aged 18-25 (originally intended for 18-21 year olds, but due to operational considerations, this was later expanded to include 22-25 year olds) 2) County or conurbation residents 3) Referred by Offender Managers working in the semi-specialist young adult team 4) Undertaking a community order or under supervision as part of their licence conditions The project was managed by the Mentor Co-ordinator within the REACH project, who in turn was supported by NPT's Employment, Training, Accommodation and Benefits Manager. The project was a small scale scheme, which was funded at $1500 for the costs of recruitment and training of volunteer mentors but did not cover the coordination and management costs, which were added on to the existing commitments of the REACH scheme. There were three key stakeholders associated with the project - volunteer mentors (VMs), mentees and Offender Managers from the 'young adult' semi-specialist team. The intention was for individuals to be referred if they were deemed to be in need of extra coaching/support to help them in their 'journey from crime'. Importantly, this project has not been designed as a 'peer mentoring' pilot project. Instead, all mentoring interventions were to be delivered by volunteer mentors (VMs) recruited through the Nottinghamshire Community Voluntary Service (NCVS). The intention of the pilot project was to match 25 young adult offenders with ten VMs. With the project formally ending in March 2014, nine volunteer mentors had been recruited, but had only been matched with five mentees. The implication of achieving just 20 per cent of the anticipated mentee/mentor 'matches', is that the 'three way process' between the mentors, mentees and Offender Managers was not operating as originally intended (see Aims and Objectives of the project). Details: Nottingham, UK: Nottingham Trent University, 2014. 37p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 28, 2016 at: http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/3182/1/219992_PubSub2254_Sandhu.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/3182/1/219992_PubSub2254_Sandhu.pdf Shelf Number: 140491 Keywords: MentoringPeer MentoringVolunteersYoung Adult Offenders |
Author: Clinks Title: Valuing Volunteers in Prison: A Review of Volunteer Involvement in Prisons Summary: This report, commissioned at the request of Andrew Selous MP, explores how we can increase the amount and scope of prison volunteering across England and Wales. One of NOMS key priorities is supporting the use of volunteers in prisons. Clinks, NOMS, voluntary sector organisations and prisons have all been keen to identify good practice that can be used more widely to maximise the impact of volunteering and minimise any barriers that limit its use. This publication is intended to inform individuals and organisations involved with, or interested in, enhancing volunteering in prisons. It explores four connected questions: What are the benefits of volunteering in prisons? Where are there current examples of good practice, and where are there gaps? What are the key supports and barriers to effective volunteer involvement in prisons? And what actions would support the development of more effective volunteering? FINDINGS The report finds: Prison volunteering has clear benefits for stakeholders. Several factors support successful volunteering including clear strategic oversight at governor level; robust recruitment procedures; support with security vetting; and good management and supervision. Models of volunteering vary, with some prisons having a clear strategy. However, most prisons we visited did not have a whole-organisation approach to volunteer involvement. Barriers to successful volunteering include delays to recruitment, often associated with security vetting and training; a large time commitment often during office hours; and lack of support from prison staff. RECOMMENDATIONS The report makes seven recommendations including: clear roles should be identified for volunteers, and their work should be strategically integrated prisons and their partners should proactively recruit volunteers from as diverse a base as possible volunteering should receive a consistent level of coordination and support.. Details: London: Clinks, 2016. 48p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 7, 2017 at: http://www.clinks.org/sites/default/files/basic/files-downloads/valuing_volunteering_in_prison_-_a_review_of_volunteer_involvement_in_prisons_july_2016_final.pdf Year: 2016 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.clinks.org/sites/default/files/basic/files-downloads/valuing_volunteering_in_prison_-_a_review_of_volunteer_involvement_in_prisons_july_2016_final.pdf Shelf Number: 141372 Keywords: Correctional ProgramsPrisoner RehabilitationVolunteers |
Author: O'Dwyer, Kieran Title: Reducing Youth Crime in Ireland: An Evaluation of Le Cheile Mentoring Summary: oung people who have fallen into crime reduce re-offending by 28% on average over the period of mentoring, a major evaluation report into the Le Cheile programme 'Reducing Youth Crime in Ireland' has shown. The report is based on a detailed evaluation of the Le Cheile volunteer mentoring programme and its activities over the period 2013-2015. The report has also shown also that for every euro spent on the programme, L4.35 is returned in social and economic benefits. Benefits include avoiding detention, better health and engagement in education. Of the 28% reduction in re-offending during the period of being mentored, 49% of this can be directly attributed to mentoring. It found that mentoring has significant positive impacts for young people over a range of areas, with the biggest gains made in self-confidence, hopefulness, communications, engagement in activities and, crucially, offending behaviour. Le Cheile Mentoring is a one-to-one relationship-based support service in which volunteers from local communities provide a positive role model to a young person by acting as an advisor and a friendly support. It also now delivers parent mentoring to offer parents support and help in managing their child's offending behaviour. In 2015 it mentored 152 young people aged 12 to 21 as well as 49 parent mentees, with volunteers giving 3,678 hours of their personal time to the young people and their parents. One of the key recommendations in the report was that, given the high social return from mentoring, Le Cheile should continue to be resourced and expanded to regions in Ireland where there is unmet or latent demand. Benefits include: Reductions in offending behaviour (an average of 28%, with attribution of nearly half of this to mentoring); Reductions in alcohol use (12%) and drug use (16%); Improved self-confidence (25%), hopefulness (25%), and happiness (23%); Greater involvement in activities outside the home (28%); Greater involvement or re-engagement in education, work and training (25%); Improved communication skills (24%); Moving away from negative peers (9% improvement in relationship with peers), and Improved relationships with parents (11%), other family (8%), & persons in authority (23%). Le Cheile is funded by the Irish Youth Justice Service through the Probation Service, as part of Ireland's European Structural and Investment Funds Programme 2014-2020 - co-funded by the Irish Government and the European Union. Founded in 2005 in Coolock, Le Cheile, which partners with the Probation Services to reduce youth offending behaviour in the community, is the first mentoring programme for young offenders in the country and today operates in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Clare, South Tipperary, Midlands, Waterford, Meath, with the objective now to expand it to other locations. Details: Coolock, Le Cheile, Ireland: Le cheile Mentoring & Youth Justice Support Services, 2017. 36p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 4, 2017 at: http://www.lecheile.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Reducing-Youth-Crime-In-Ireland-Executive-Summary.pdf Year: 2017 Country: Ireland URL: http://www.lecheile.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Reducing-Youth-Crime-In-Ireland-Executive-Summary.pdf Shelf Number: 145314 Keywords: Delinquency PreventionJuvenile OffendersMentoring ProgramsVolunteersYouth MentoringYouth Rehabilitation |
Author: Clinks Title: Under represented, Under pressure, Under resourced: the voluntary sector's role in Transforming Rehabilitation Summary: Under represented, Under pressure, Under resourced is the third and final report in a series looking at the voluntary sector's role in Transforming Rehabilitation (you can also read the first report and second report). Clinks surveyed 132 voluntary sector organisations between February and April 2017 and gathered six in depth case studies. The survey results were analysed by the Third Sector Research Centre and by using the same questions posed in our 2015 survey we have been able to record changes over time. As a result Clinks has identified seven key findings and made 11 recommendations that we believe can make a difference, and help us to understand what the next generation of probation services could look like. Since 2015, in response to feedback from our members and other voluntary sector organisations, Clinks has led the trackTR partnership to undertake in-depth research into the voluntary sector's experience of the changes to probation services brought about by the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms. We have assessed the impact the reforms have had on organisations, the services they deliver, and the people they support; and will use the findings to advocate on behalf of the voluntary sector to government and to probation services run by the National Probation Service (NPS) and Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs). Details: London: Clinks, 2018. 68p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 9, 2018 at: https://www.clinks.org/sites/default/files/basic/files-downloads/clinks_track-tr_under_final-web.pdf Year: 2018 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.clinks.org/sites/default/files/basic/files-downloads/clinks_track-tr_under_final-web.pdf Shelf Number: 150132 Keywords: MentoringOffender RehabilitationPartnershipsProbationVolunteers |