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Joining Forces Conferece
Tom Halpin
Veterans mentoring service:
An early perspective on what we are learning
> Sacro’s mission– Is to be a community based organisation that will create safe and cohesive
communities by reducing conflict and offending
> Sacro’s key principles– That conflict is most effectively resolved through informal, facilitated
resolution which assist those involved to identify their own lasting solutions
– That offending and its consequences are most effectively dealt with through an emphasis on community disposal and sentencing
Who are we?
Sources of Referral
• PoppyScotland• Glasgow’s Helping
Heroes• SSAFA• Veterans Advisory
and Pensions Committee
• Veterans 1st Point
Types of offences • Assault with Injury• Assault without Injury• Burglary/ Housebreaking• Breach of the Peace• Domestic Violence• Drug Possession• Drug Trafficking• Driving Offences• Fraud/ Forgery/ Extortion
• Registered Sex Offences (RSO)
• RSO – Schedule 1 (offence committed against minor under age of 16)
• Threatening or Abusive Behaviour
• Harassment• Murder• Possession of Offensive
Weapon• Vandalism/ Criminal Damage• Theft of a Motor Vehicle
• Within throughcare arena, we are fortunate to have considerable experience and skills
• Development of PSPs has increased capacity and coverage
• But there are also opportunities to improve things further
Working in partnership in criminal justice
• Am I a support worker?• Am I a befriender?• Is a volunteer a mentor?• Is mentoring all of the above?
Queries on Mentoring
• Caring• Support• Help reach potential• Empower
Essential Ingredients of Mentoring
“a one to one relationship where practical support and monitoring is provided by
mentors on a wide range of issues relating to offending behaviour”
What is Mentoring?
• Number of referrals to date: 52 (10 prison based, 42 community based)
• 1 x Female, 51 x Male• Service Users engaging: 17• Cases closed: 16 (1 custody,1 unplanned,7
planned, 7 non-engagement)• 7 identified currently awaiting engagement• 8 waiting list• 1 not engaging, 3 awaiting response,
How are we doing?
• How learning is shared across partners• How learning drives redesign and improvements • Are communities ready to receive prisoners who
are veterans• How do we build capacity across Scotland
What lessons are there for the future?
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THE SUPPORTS OUT THERE!
Joining Forces Preventing, Protecting and Prospering
4 March 2015
Gary GrayHead of Welfare ServicesPoppyscotland
RESETTLEMENT - A REMINDER
"I never had any help when I left. I just left. I walked out of the front gate with my kit bag with all my civvy stuff, my campaign medal, my book, my red Army discharge book that is and that was it. I walked out of the gate, called a taxi to the station and caught a train back home. That was it. Done."
HOUSING
EMPLOYMENT
Employment
Support Grants
Employ-Able
LifeWorks
Criminal
Conviction
Disclosure Service
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Regimental
Associations
ADVICE
ASAP - A SATISFIED CUSTOMER
Hello Sir, Just got a letter in from housing benefit and council tax…… JUST AMAZING MAN!!!!!! seriously!!!!!You have accomplished in one day what [another agency] hasn’t been able to deal with in four months!!!!!!The relief that someone has actually listened to us and more importantly has listened to you is a credit to you. We are absolutely in awe at what you have achieved. One word……… WOW!!!!!God bless you Sir, you have a friend here for life.
COMRADESHIP
HEALTH
THE SUPPORTS OUT THERE!
Joining Forces Preventing, Protecting and Prospering
4 March 2015
Gary GrayHead of Welfare ServicesPoppyscotland
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Aidan Stephen
‘Trained for a Purpose’
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Lt colonel Dave Grossman
The psychological cost of learning to kill in War
“War is an environment that will psychologically
debilitate 98 percent of all who participate in it for
any length of time. And that 2 percent well they
appear to have already been insane –aggressive
psychopaths – before they reached the battlefield.”
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“According to Hoge and colleagues (2007), the key to
reducing stigma is to present MENTAL HEALTH care as a
routine aspect of health care, similar to getting a check up or
an X-ray. Soldiers need to understand that stress reactions-
difficulty sleeping, reliving incidents in your mind, and
emotional detachment-are common and expected after
combat... The soldier should be told that wherever they go,
they should remember that what they're feeling is "normal
and it's nothing to be ashamed of.”
― Joan Beder, Advances in Social Work Practice with the
Military
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Joining Forces Conferece
Panel
Eric Fraser
Ian McGregor
DCC Rose Fitzpatrick
Tom Halpin
Ian Davidson
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