CYP Now - Project unpicks the trauma of care to address offending

Experience of both care and custody is not unusual - Ministry of Justice research suggests around a quarter of the adult prison population are care leavers, despite less than one per cent of children entering care each year.

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"Being in care and in prison involves a young person being separated from their families and their peer groups - and as a result - they often don't feel in control of their lives," says Fran Hughes, specialist service manager at the Future 4 Me (F4M) project.

Last year, the Bristol-based service implemented a pilot scheme using a trauma recovery model to better meet the needs of young adults who have experience of offending and the care system. Drawing on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory, F4M aims to ensure young people's housing needs are met before addressing their trauma. To this end, it provides more than 230 bed places through a network of hostels, shared houses and self-contained flats managed by the project's parent charity 1625 Independent People.

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