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Enabling Justice Project
Jesuit Social Services &
Centre for Innovative Justice
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Enabling Justice Project
Brigid Henley
Coordinator, Adult Justice
Special Projects
Jesuit Social Services
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Justice User Group
Membership – people with an ABI
who have experienced the CJS
and/or their families and carers.
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Justice User Group –
A Self Advocacy Group
• Experiences of criminal justice system
(CJS)
• Ideas and changes to CJS
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Voices of marginalised Enhanced individual advocacy
Justice User Group - Goals
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Justice User Group
• Six members – five men and one woman (recently joined) • Mixed Gender
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• Members inducted into Jesuit Social Services as
Consumer Advocates • Code of Conduct, Mission, Vision and Values • Group Rules and Teamwork • Professional relationships
Approach to Justice User Group
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Group Facilitation – Strategies Informed by knowledge of impacts of ABI on executive functioning and behaviour:
- Informal, structured, flexible - Group rules and group cohesion - Regular breaks/food - Consistent meeting time/place - Limit distractions - Repeat, re-cap
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• Transport • Food • Payment • Welcome Packs • Phone-calls, texts
Support for Group Members
Meetings
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Participant Profiles P1: Male, released early this year, late 40’s, housed in a THM in Ballarat, ABI as a result of motorbike accident and/or drug use, socially isolated, bi-polar, alcohol use, methadone. P2: Female, supported accommodation, ABI as a result of family violence as a child, repeat victimisation, incarcerated several years ago.
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• Brokerage for Justice User Group members • Jesuit Community College - Employment Program
Ready Set Work Referrals • Regular catch-ups Checking in with Case
Managers • Regular catch-up – Coordinator, Jesuit Social
Services
Responding to Issues and Challenges
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Supported Self-Advocacy Themes
• Policing • Court • Housing • Lack of ongoing support/case management • Repeat victimisation – violence • Memory problems
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Self-Advocacy • Internal – targeting people with and ABI in
the criminal justice system. • Stakeholder – targeting system – police,
magistrates, court staff, prison officers. • Community – improving community
awareness of ABI and criminal justice system
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Self-Advocacy Tasks • Campaigns - artwork, events, meetings,
public speaking. • Media – newspaper articles, radio. • Digital storytelling – educational resources
for prison staff, court staff, magistrates etc.
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Thank you.
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