RUBIKON Centrum

ABOUT US

• we support people with criminal record to find quality work with mainstream employers

• helping them break the intergenerational cycle of disadvantage and crime

• changing attitudes amongst employers, media and society

• decreasing the rate of recidivism

HOW DO WE DO THAT?

1) Client services

we support our clients through every step of their journey into work

Programs to Increase Employment

Debt Programs

Programs to Increase the Effectiveness of

Alternative Sentences

HOW DO WE DO THAT?

2) Employer services

we offer a bespoke recruitment service to forward-thinking employers across a wide range of sectors

Hiring through RUBIKON Centrum

Volunteering opportunities

HOW DO WE DO THAT?

3) Influencing key stakeholders and legislative solutions, public education, publicizing

– 1994 – 2001 we managed to push trough the Law of Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech Republic

– 2011 we became co-founders of Alliance Against Debts together with the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic and the Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech Republic

– the management of RUBIKON Centrum is an active member of consultative organs of the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic – the Council for Probation and Mediation, Council for the Prison Service, the Platform of Non-profit Organizations

– RUBIKON Centrum is also a member of Committee against Torture at the Council of Government for Human Rights and of the Committee for Prevention and Criminality in the Central Bohemia Region

– on the level of EU we are also a member of the European Juvenile Justice Observatory

HOW DO WE DO THAT?

4) Expert education

– Courses of Financial Literacy for those experts who work with people indebted

5) Innovative solutions

– 2004 we started:

Roma Mentoring project• original know-how from Danish Probation

Service• clients actively involved in the solution of

alternative sentences• in cooperation with the Probation and

Mediation Service of CR it was provided in 9 (from 14) regions of the Czech Republic

Programs for juvenile delinquents• the only probation program for young law-

breakers spread all over the whole Czech Republic

• in 2013 we started to work with the whole family

HOW DO WE DO THAT?

– 2012 we founded a unique non-commercial Recruitment Agency specialized on the the candidates with criminal record, cooperating with open-minded mainstream employers

– June, 2015 we founded a social business - Rubikon Centrum Service so we are able to create more job positions for people with criminal record, we also provide programs in order to support their integration

HISTORY

• 1994

• 20 000 clients

• More than 50 projects (regional, national, international)

AWARDS

• International Community Justice Award (2000)

• Crystal Scales of Justice (2009)

• National Career Counselling Awards (2013)

• National Career Counselling Awards (2015)

• RegioStars Finalist (2015)

RESULTS 2014

alternat ive sentence programs

employment programs

debt programs summary

513

870

898

2281

In 2014 we provided services to 2 281 clients

number of clients/program

WHERE?

FRUITS OF OUR WORKalias what are we most proud of?

99 % of absolvents of Programs to Increase the

Effectiveness of Alternative Sentences did not relapsed

60 % success rate of Roma Mentors

77 % maintain the job after the experiencing

period

each third client

found a job

140 active

employers

80 %got oriented

with their debts

64 %obey a

Payment Schedule

98 % success rate of

requests for Personal

Bankruptcy

WHO HELPS US?

Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech republic

Employment Office of the Czech Republic

Prison Service of the Czech Republic

Social Curators

Other non-govern organizations

CONTACT

RUBIKON Centrum Korunní 101, 130 00 Prague 3, Czech RepublicGPS Location: 50°4'31.939"N, 14°27'14.73"E Phone: +420 739 470 408E-mail: info@rubikoncentrum.czWeb: www.rubikoncentrum.cz

IČO: 60446871DIČ: CZ 60446871Bank account.: UniCredit Bank 2107786583/2700