THE INTO-EMPLOYMENT METHODOLOGY WORK-WISE

about individual route planning, multidisciplinary approaches and

networking between chain partners

Introduction

IRMA VAN DER VEENMANAGER

Preview

• The mission of the National Agency of Correctional Institutions

• The Work-Wise methodology

• The ESF/EQUAL project IMPACT

The DJI mission

The National Agency of Correctional Institutions contributes to:

• The safety in society by executing custodial sentences and measures and

• By offering those entrusted to our care the perspective of a socialised living

The Work-Wise methodology

Started in 1998

Funded by the European Social Fund

The Work-Wise methodology

• Aim: to develop a systematic into-

employment methodology as an integrated part of the treatment

• Output: Work-Wise Manual, 2001

WORK-WISE NEDERLAND

• Partnership between 12 penal institutions for juveniles and young offenders founded in 2000

• Objective:Providing youngsters with a seamless into-

employment programme

Creating a nationwide network for preparing release and performing aftercare

Jointly developing the Work-Wise methodology

Locations Work-Wise Nederland

JOC

De Hunnerberg

De Heuvelrug‘t Nw. Lloyd

‘t Keerpunt

De Doggershoek

PI Overijssel

Target group

Criteria for placement in the Work-Wise programme:

• A learning path geared to the labour market has to be indicated

• Minimum age of 15 years

• Minimum stay in the penal institution for 4 months

Starting points

• Integral and multidisciplinary approach

• Empowerment of the participants

• Sentence planning

• Tailor made character of the route

• Individual Employment Counsellor

Contents Work-Wise Programme

Integral into-employment programme compromises three routings:

1. Work and Schooling

2. Living independently and Coping with leisure time

3. Creating a social network

Output

In total 1091 participants in 2000, 2001 and 2002 from which:

• 32% are still participant in the programme in 2003

• 48% is placed in a job and/or vocational education

• 9% is placed in another custodial institution

• 11% has not completed the programme

Follow-up research

First interview six months after release and second interview six months after finishing the period of aftercare

The central questions are:Do you still have• a job and/or are you going to school• an acceptable place to live • an acceptable social networkand• Have you been involved in criminal activities

Project IMPACT 2001-2004

Aims:

• Improving the stage of intake and diagnoses

• Creating modules for specific target groups

• Re-enforcement of the organizing base

• Improvement and measurement of quality and effectivity of the programme

Development Partnership

• Work-Wise Nederland• The National Agency of Correctional

Institutions (DJI)• Dutch Probation Service• Salvation Army Probation Service• MOgroup,Youth Probation Service• Manpower Reintegration Services• MKB Nederland, Dutch Forum of Private

Business• Albeda College: school for lower and

secondary vocational education• Nova College: school for lower vocational

education

Objectives and activities

Target group programmes:

• Short stay youths (less than six months stay)

• Girls; combining work and care

• Ethnic minority boys at risk

Objectives and activities

• Cognitive behavioural training for the development of employees skills

• A risk and needs assessment and an instrument aimed at how to estimate and how to cope with the recidivism risks of violent juveniles

• A model for case management of into-employment programmes

• A blue-print for a cooperation contract between chain partners and other relevant partners

Objectives and activities

• An interactive website for an efficient transfer of information and expertise

• A methodology for the measurement of the quality of an integral into-employment programme

• An instrument to measure the effectivity of the into-employment programme Work-Wise

Empowerment

• Empowerment of the DP

• Empowerment of the target group

• Empowerment of the individual participants

Transnational cooperation

Name of the project: MERIT Making Employment Realistic =

Innovative Training

Development Partnership:• IMPACT UK, England• IMPACT NL, the Netherlands• Personal Progression System, Northern Ireland• Open Integrated Society Hellas, Greece• Youth Rise, Finland• Prise, England

Dissemination and mainstreaming

Activities and products:

• Website, www.work-wise.nl• Extranet, my.work-wise• News letters• Brochures• Studyvisits transnational partners• Expert-meetings and conferences• Manuals

Dissemination and Mainstreaming

Justice to young people:Action programme for the approach to

juvenile crime (2003-2006)

• Risk and needs assessment• Implementation of compulsory

aftercare• Effectivity tests

Dissemination and Mainstreaming

Other EQUAL projects:• 2001/EQE/0030: ‘Schooling without

thresholds’• 2001/EQE/0038: Case-management

for youngsters with behaviour problems’

• 2001/EQG/0006: ‘Future in Balance’, reintegration for female prisoners

ESF/EQUAL second tranche

Target group programmes• Juveniles with learning disabilities (IQ

60-85)• Violence juveniles with psychiatric

characteristics• Young offenders placed in a penal

institution for adults• Sex offenders

The ESF/EQUAL project IMPACT

Irma van der Veen Manager