Mentoring East Midlands

We are a small group of professionals who have been involved in delivering quality services to achieve positive outcomes with challenging groups for close to 30 years. Our particular specialisms lie around those who are involved in 'high risk' and violent lifestyles.People who most benefit from our input will be:

• Those deemed to be presenting high risk or are at high risk
  
• Those deemed to be difficult to engage
• Those deemed to be in need of targeted guidance and support due to negative and damaging lifestyle choices

Our mission is to deliver high quality interventions and outcomes through adhering to several core principles:

• Commitment towards building professional working relationships
  
• Always working in partnership
  
• Utilising up to date learning and delivery practices
  
• Consistency and Persistence 

Being HMPS shared services cleared, with associated identification, means we can enter custodial premises nationally and engage with people both in custody, and 'through the gate' into the community; This adds significant value to our work with those referred due to offending backgrounds. Where necessary, we work closely with prison offender management units to maximise opportunities for the impact of our work.

Our work is about influencing and changing behaviour and reducing harm; we do this through engaging with those who are identified as 'in need' and responding with 1-1 focused and professional input. We place a high emphasis on building rapport and positive working relationships and possess an enviable record of success in terms of engagement, retention in service and most importantly impact. Our methods are 'solution and outcome focused' and we house them within a strengths based approach towards those we engage with. This means we focus on the future and 'the possible' whilst influencing the individual to take responsibility and move forward in their life.Mentoring for us is a specialist, professional and skilled task and we're committed towards development within the field. Our delivery and methods have been independently evaluated by Coventry University's Behavioural Science Department (July 2014) and copies of the document are available on request.
Our work usually involves direct engagement with men, sometimes women, who commit serious crimes, or work with family members who are affected by these circumstances. Within this we engage with long term unemployed, and those out of education, with a particular focus on people coming from complex and challenging backgrounds. Currently, assisting people back into work, vocational training and education makes up approximately fifty per cent of our work.We're passionate about focusing on the importance of strong and positive role models and direct a lot of our energies towards supporting people, young and old, to make better informed decisions about their behaviour and in turn understanding how their actions and thinking affects others.

• Befriending or mentoring
• Crime / Community safety
• Domestic violence
• Health - Mental Health
• Men
• Other
• Unemployment
• Women

• People with mental health issues