Youth offending services (YOS) in London have teamed up with a national charity to provide life coaching for young people to reduce the risk of reoffending.
Lewisham YOS and Southwark YOS are the first to offer the life coaching to young offenders, with another four youth offending teams set to follow suit shortly.
The YOSs will initially offer 10 young people aged 15-18 who have been released from youth custody or those in the community at risk of a custodial sentence a 10-session life-coaching programme that has been developed by Spark Inside, a charity that works with offenders.
The programme, Hero’s Journey, is usually delivered in custodial settings with young adults and young people – it has been used with young males in young offenders institutions (YOIs) and prisons since 2013 (see below). But this is the first time it has been offered in the community, and Spark Inside has adapted it to reflect this.
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