Substance Misuse
Girls Empowerment Group at Tower Hamlets YJS
Published: 27/01/2025
Tower Hamlets and City of London Youth Justice Service has shared its girls programme, designed to empower, inspire and uplift girls involved in youth justice.
Flintshire Youth Justice Service’s Soft Outcomes Tool
Published: 07/01/2025
Flintshire Youth Justice Service has designed a tool to gather information from children about how they feel about various aspects of their lives, including mental health, school and substance misuse.
‘Digital Me’ – An animated video from Gateshead Youth Justice Service
Published: 22/10/2024
Gateshead Youth Justice Service and Digital Voice for Communities, a non-profit organisation which works to deliver digital inclusion projects, has produced animated video which captures children’s experiences of the youth justice system.
The Believe Project from Newport Youth Justice Service
Published: 27/09/2024
Newport Youth Justice Service works in partnership with local agencies to provide several initiatives to support children and raise their awareness in understanding risky behaviours.
Project X:Year 6 Transition Project at Kingston and Richmond Youth Justice Service
Published: 05/08/2024
Kingston and Richmond youth justice service are supporting children to successfully transition to secondary school through their year 6 transition project: Project X. It aims to not only to support children to move from primary to secondary school, but also identify the triggers and potential strategies to help children to thrive in a school setting.
Cheshire Youth Justice Service: Using social prescribing to reduce reoffending among young people
Published: 31/07/2024
Cheshire Youth Justice Service have focussed on addressing young people’s unmet health needs to tackle reoffending. The creation of the Cheshire-wide youth justice partnership in 2017 highlighted inequalities in justice-involved children’s health provision, which they have worked to address, and are now taking an innovative social prescribing approach to meet the wider health needs of their youth justice cohort.
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