Vision

If you would like to refer yourself or someone else to the mentorship programme either as a mentor or mentee please contact us.

Our Vision

NewConnections empowers prisoners and helps them prepare for their release by giving them hope and belief in their own ability to live free from crime and drugs.

We are convinced that ex-offenders can develop a passion for their own recovery and that they are able to transform their lives into ones that are happy, fulfilling and which contribute to those around them.

Our aim is to use all our resources to help achieve positive outcomes for all those who we work with within the criminal justice system and outside of it.

We are a specialist organisation working at the intersection of rehabilitation and systemic change: supporting not just the individuals we work with, but the professionals and systems around them, to create the conditions in which genuine recovery and reintegration can take root.

Our goals for the future

ASKING FOR HELP

Addiction, depression and anxiety, imprisonment are all hugely isolating and men and women often lose the ability to ask for help or the knowledge of where to find positive support and guidance. NewConnections aims to provide practical help with housing but also therapeutic support, which may be residential rehabilitation, and assistance with training, volunteering, preparation for work and finding work.

FREEDOM CREATING OPPORTUNITIES

Many ex-offenders leave prison still isolated and without social or professional support. We provide that support through continuity of therapeutic support inside and outside prison from our counselling and mentoring staff. Our team of volunteers, most of whom have personal experience of addiction, prison or both are available to all our clients. Finally we urge all our clients to become actively involved in fellowships like AA, NA and others where they find shared experience as well as guidance and support.

Our 5 year roadmap

Our strategic priorities for the coming years include:

Expanding our reach to support more IPP-sentenced individuals as the IPP Action Plan is implemented across England and Wales

Growing our professional training programme to equip HMPPS, probation, and community services with specialist IPP expertise

Building a peer mentor network led by people with lived experience of indeterminate sentences

Deepening our partnerships with local authorities, housing providers, and community organisations to strengthen the support available at the point of release

If you share our vision and want to be part of the journey, we would love to hear from you.

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