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Reducing Reoffending By lives being changed

The Kainos ‘Challenge to Change’ programme has an 87% success rate at reducing reoffending back into custody within 2 years of release.

It addresses prisoners offending behaviour through course work, individual assessment community living, team building, and social interaction.

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Changing Lives Building Community

Developing positive social skills, mutual respect for others and renewed trust in society. Providing opportunities to reconnect with family, rebuild relationships and improve parenting skills. Creating a safe living prison environment where participants can improve their social functioning and employability.

Latest News...

New vacancy _HMP Stocken

We want to appoint a full time Facilitator to join our current team of three staff in our rehabilitative community based at HMP Stocken.

Closing date Monday 9th January 2012

For details click 'Careers' at the top of this page

About

About

Participants develop life skills learning mutual respect, gaining insights into the way others think and behave.

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Fully Accredited

Challenge to Change received full accreditation from the Correctional Services Accreditation Panel (CSAP) on 30th April 2009.The programme is one of only two outside interventions that have achieved accreditation in Her Majesties Prisons.The accreditation and our success in tendering for the Verne prison in Portland is a real vote of confidence by the Prison Service in recognition of our work and programme.
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The beginnings of our work date back to 1999 and have had increasing results in reducing reoffending. The programmes combine a hybrid Therapeutic Community with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Read more about our programmes in our latest annual report:

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How it works

Class and Community

The core programme is based on self-help and specific behavioural classes. These are broken down into five modules, namely Induction, Community Living, Focus, Interpersonal Relationships, and Citizenship.Run as a six-month intensive programme, it enables participants to fit back into the wider community after their release with a strong resolution not to re-offend. It also fosters concepts of right living in participants as members of society as a whole.

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Family Days

As part of the programme family or friends are permitted an extended visit on Family day from 10:30 in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon (a normal visit would be two hours long) A meal is provided for everyone including prisoners their families and prison staff and volunteers who attend for those who may not have families who cannot attend.The whole atmosphere is relaxed and friendly which makes it possible for the men to enjoy quality time with their families in a stress free environment.

Peer mentoring

Prisoners elect mentors who provide support and stability within the community. They help younger or new participants on the wings adjust to living in the community.

How it works

"My son was born while I was in prison so I never had enough time with him and my other children. Today [family Day] gave me the chance to share a very good time with them and for us to get to know each other better. "

Community Meetings

Types of meeting vary from prison to prison. While they differ in form, purpose and content they share the following goalsFoster social development through open and frank discussion.Provide a safe venue to address problems and learn healthy confrontation and negoatiaion skills.

Social Development

Although not a course, this aims to create a valuable environment for social interaction. Local volunteers attend the prison to socialise with the prisoners on a weekly basis, and quarterly an entire weekend is set aside for motivational and meaningful activities, talks and workshops with volunteers.

Programmes

Kainos in the Community

Kainos in the Community is a mentoring programme for graduates of our 'Challenge to Change' programmes. By matching local volunteers with ex-offenders the programme provides healthy one on one support for people wanting to stay out of trouble and rebuild their lives after time in prison.Our trained volunteers spend up to two years with an ex-offender providing him/her with practical help support and guidance to make a fresh start.
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Programmes

Challenge to Change is our Flagship programme targetted at medium to high risk offenders currently running at HMP The Verne, HMP Swaleside and HMP Stocken.

Challenge to Change

The six month intensive programme is delivered within a community setting, providing an environment for prisoners to address their offending behaviour through course work and social interation. It is designed to specifically address:1. Deficits in self management, decision making and problem solving2. Poor cognitive skills3. Poor pro-social interpersonal skills4. Cognitive support for offendingIn addition the programme influences the following additional dynamic, major and minor criminogenic risk factors through its community as method TC approach:1. Anti-social attitudes and feelings2. Strong social ties and identification with anti-social/criminal models and impulsive anti-social lifestyle3. Weak social ties and identification with pro-social/non-criminal model
Community

Community

Forum

Kainos is a dynamic community of reformed offenders, mentors, staff, volunteers, friends and family members all supporting, sharing and growing together.

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Join in the discussion

The Kainos Community Forum is a place where members of the wider Kainos Community and graduates of 'Challenge to Change' can connect, talk, and share information.

Contact

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Contact

Kainos Community

A018 The Heath Business & Technical Park

Runcorn

WA7 4QX

Tel: 01928 500797

Email: admin_kainoscommunity.org

Charity Number: 1076206. Limited Company: 3771649

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Volunteering inside Prison

Currently over 100 people volunteer their time to visiting men on Kainos wings inside Prison.Volunteering on the 'Challenge to Change' programme means coming into the prison on a weekly basis for social evenings providing encouragement and being a positive role model. Regular training and support is provided. Schemes are currently running in Dorset, Kent and Rutland. To apply download the volunteer application form on the left.

Volunteer

"Upon being invited to become involved I was initially hesitant, however without doubt it is one of the best things that I have ever been involved with"

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Community Mentoring

Become a part of a great team making a real difference to the lives of recently released prisoners! 'Kainos in the Community' is a new ex-offender programme in the Midlands seeking new volunteers:Volunteers are central to our work.To succeed with full and meaningful resettlement of offenders our work needs the ongoing active support from a team of volunteers who engage with and support graduates of our Challenge to Change Programme. To apply download the volunteer application form on the left

New Opportunity: Trustee Treasurer

We want to appoint a Treasurer who can volunteer their time, bringing their experience of life and work, to help the trustee board in their oversight of the charitys activities. As Treasurer you would take a strategic overview of our accounts and ensure that our work is developing in line with our business plan:

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Careers

Careers

Kainos Community provides worthwhile and rewarding career opportunities. Use your talents to make a real difference in the lives of offenders and exoffenders.

Personal Story" I wanted to be a part of a team that was really making a difference to prisoners, their families and their future."Very quickly I realised I had made the right decision; watching the change of attitude and maturing of coping mechanisms were very obvious, as we deliver the Kainos Challenge to Change Offending Behaviour Programme to our participants who are also our residents in a unique community of 72 men." Steve Clay

Latest Vacancies:

Programme Facilitator _ HMP Stocken

We want to appoint a full time Facilitator to join our current team of three staff in our rehabilitative community based at HMP Stocken.

Candidates will have experience in group facilitation as well as knowledge of rehabilitation practices. Of critical importance are well developed communication and interpersonal skills. You will also be required to be computer literate and have experience in administration. A knowledge of prison working practice would be desirable but not essential.

Starting salary: £22,000

Information Pack and Application Forms can be obtained from The Administrator, Kainos Community, A018, The Heath Business Park, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 4QX or via e.mail - admin_kainoscommunity.org. Tel 01928500797

Closing date Monday 9th January 2012

Short-listing will take place on 12th/13th January 2012 and interviews will be held at HMP Stocken on Tuesday 24th January 2012..

Trash HMP Swaleside Programme ManagerThe post of Programme Manager has become vacant to manage our rehabilitative community based at HMP Swaleside. Kainos Community has been delivering programmes inside prison for over 13 years, and has been instrumental in reducing re-offending rates of prisoners. This role offers invaluable experience to lead a visionary team which is instrumental in reducing re-offending rates of prisoners.Candidates will have had management experience at a senior level as well as experience in adult training and group facilitation work. Applications Deadline 23rd April. Interviews 28th April. Click below to download an application pack

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Seren House For Women

Seren House will bring together the skills and experience of Kainos Community and Home-Start to provide a life changing opportunity for women who want to break free from their life of crime. Just like the men's communities in prison, it will require a serious commitment to change, and give the women the opportunity, living in community at Seren House, to adopt a different life style. All the features of Challenge to Change will be there, and staff will be in place to run it in the way we know that works.

Latest Vacancies:

Operations DirectorA new post of Operations Director has been created to develop and manage Challenge to Change outside the prison environment. This role offers the opportunity to pioneer new work with partners in the community using our programme, which has been successful in prisons and has been instrumental in reducing re-offending. Candidates will have had both management and project development experience at a senior level in addition to adult training and group facilitation work. Applications opening soon please keep checking this website page.
Donate

Donate

Giving to Kainos Community means giving someone the chance to transform their lives, restore broken relationships and prepare for a future free of crime.

Make a regular monthly gift:Giving regularly provides the stability we need to plan for the future and help more people. To set up a standing order email us at:admin_kainoscommunity.org

Giving

As a small registered charity Kainos Community relies heavily on charitable donations, and works hard to ensure every donation we receive is spent directly on improving lives.

Make an online donation:Use the Paypal button below to make a direct online donation to the charity via our secure Paypal link.

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Challenge to Change

3. Focus

The focus module is a progressive course, starting with individuals' beliefs and how they affect behaviour. Participants learn to understand how they regulate their behaviour according to their beliefs. It also gives a starting point for each individual to consider where they came from and work on how to decide where they are going.

4. Interpersonal Relationships

Each session identifies elements which directly relate to the participant's relationships

with others both inside and outside of prison.

The sessions also consider the victims perspective, looking at the effects of crime in

general and the specific crime committed by the prisoner.

5. Citizenship

The theme of the citizenship module for participants has two viewpoints, inside the Kainos community/Prison and outside in the wider community. Specific elements of a healthy living lifestyle are included such as general hygiene, sexually transmitted diseases, temperance, alcohol and smoking related diseases as well as identifying stress.

Challenge to Change

The programme itself runs for twenty four weeks, combining four formal intervention modules, delivered, using multi-modal methods, with pro-social modelling, practice and feedback within a Thearputic Community

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5 Core Modules

Individuals take part in all parts of the TC processes as well as attending two hour sessions that form five main learning modules:1. Induction / 2. Community Living / 3. Focus/ 4. Interpersonal Relationships / 5. Citizenship.Introductions to each module are shown here. You can also download more detailed information using the buttons on the left panel.

1. Induction

This phase lasts for four weeks and is focussed on preparing the participants for theInterventions and the experience of living 'in community.

2. Community Living

The module is split into sessions, each considering a core concept around living as part of the community. Participants have the opportunity to try new ways of behaving and should be mutually supporting other members to achieve the change that is implicit in the title of the programme.

Dynamic Risk

Factors

Effectiveness

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Course Structure (CtC).pdf

FINAL PORTSMOUTH REPORT 24 weeks.pdf

Prg Effectiveness

Programme

Effectiveness

The latest independent research (Ellis and Shalev 2008), undertaken by Portsmouth University, has highlighted that the Kainos programme appears to be particularly successful with medium to high risk offenders.

The two year reconviction rates to prison for those having been released between 1997 and 2003 (N=312) were 13% as compared to a predicted level of 35%. The average level of adjudications for Swaleside graduates one year prior to entry into the programme was 3.7, as compared to an average level of adjudications up to one year post programme completion of 0.3.

Risk Factors

Dynamic Risk Factors Addressed:

Within the four core structured modules of Challenge to Change, there are four key risk factors targeted:

1. Deficits in self management, decision making and problem solving

2. Poor cognitive skills

3. Poor pro-social interpersonal skills

4. Cognitive support for offending

Although not targeted intensively within the core modules, in addition the programme influences the following additional dynamic, major and minor criminogenic risk factors through its community as method TC approach:

1. Anti-social attitudes and feelings

2. Strong social ties and identification with anti-social/criminal models and impulsive anti-social lifestyle

3. Weak social ties and identification with pro-social/non-criminal model

Core Modules

Dynamic Risk

Factors

Effectiveness

Management
John Broadley HMP The Verne Laison Tustee. Formerly HM Ambassador to the Vatican. Non-Service Mmber of Home Office Extended Interview PanelKate MiddletonAdministrator of The Anchor Foundation. Retired part time Lay Chaplain at Glenochil prison in Scotland. David Westgate Trustee of ACT. David is a Chartered Surveyor and director of Andrews Estate Agents which is owned by ACT.Advisors:Stephen PriorAdvisor. Retired Prison Service Governor. Geoff Hebbern MBEAdvisor. Retired Prison Service Senior Manager at The Verne. Part time Chaplain at The Verne

Our People

The Management Team:Phil EdgingtonChief ExecutiveMike PhillipsOperations DirectorJeremy ButlerRegional ManagerAndrea CarnegieFundraising and Marketing ManagerFor any enquiries please contact the management team using the contact page or email - admin_kainoscommunity.org

Trustees: Piers Feilden MBE (Chair)Trustee of Andrews Charitable Trust (ACT) who are funding the Step Change process of KC. Housing Association Director. Founder and former MD of a food manufacturing businessChris Lewis CBE (Secretary)Senior Research Fellow at Portsmouth University. Retired Head of Home Office research unit on offenders. Advises on Research and Accreditation issuesElizabeth Berridge Director of a not for profit organisation (the Conservative Christian Fellowship) and a former barrister. Is the liaison Trustee for HMP Stocken.Ian Aldred A Chartered Accountant & businessman. Ian was a member of the IMB of HMP Stocken. Ian is the HMP Swaleside liaison Trustee.Sir Peter WoodheadRoyal Navy Retired Vice Admiral. First Prison Ombudsman 1992 1999.
News and Media

News

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and yet it is becoming more and more difficult to get the money needed to make it more extensive and secure. In terms of the greater good, reduced re-offending on this scale saves a huge amount of money, another high priority on Ken Clarke’s agenda who this morning outlined a need to take £2billion out of a £9nillion justice budget. Additional to this programmes like ours effective at cutting reoffending have a longer term effect in reducing the number of victims and trauma caused by crime, not to mention the positive impact of reformed offenders willing to work and make a contribution to society.

Today's top story
Wednesday 29th July 2011This morning the Secretary of State for Justice, Ken Clarke spoke of the UK’s ‘dreadful’ reoffending figures stating half of those released from prison commit crimes are caught reconvicted and sent back to prison within a year. ‘'Challenge to Change'’ our six month attitude thinking and behaviour programme is already having a proven impact on those with a medium to high risk of reoffending. Research by the Institute of Criminal Justice at Portsmouth University reveal only 12.8% of graduates from our programmes reoffend back into prison within 2 years of release. Despite this and the comparatively low cost to the prisons service - it is very difficult to get guarantees for continuation, and expansion into other prisons.It seems that Kainos Community meets exactly the criteria the Secretary wants - proven reduced re-offending rates over a period of time,

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