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BEST PRACTICES IN THE REINTEGRATION OF FORMER PRISONERS IN HUNGARY

BEST PRACTICES IN THE REINTEGRATION OF FORMER PRISONERS IN HUNGARY. Speaker: Mr. Pál CSONKA Educators’ Centre Association, HU. BEST PRACTICES. Why is there need for help in reintegration?

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BEST PRACTICES IN THE REINTEGRATION OF FORMER PRISONERS IN HUNGARY

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  1. BEST PRACTICES IN THEREINTEGRATION OF FORMER PRISONERS IN HUNGARY Speaker: Mr. Pál CSONKA Educators’ Centre Association, HU Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  2. BEST PRACTICES • Why is there need for help in reintegration? • HU Law: prison is meant to be serving reintegration, as a penal institution! -> it doesn’t (always) work, OR not enough • Humanitarian reasons: they need help • Several organisations and projects in Hungary deal with reintegration of ex-prisoners: they differ in type, size, function, budget etc. Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  3. BEST PRACTICES • Types of organisations: • State administration: Ministry of Justice – Department of Crime Prevention, authorities (labour centres), penal institutions (prisons) • NGO’s: foundations, associations • „Church” organisations (missions) • Educational institutions (vocational, adult training) • Social welfare „companies” Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  4. BEST PRACTICES • Function: • Education • Supportive care • Provide info on job opportunities….. Etc. • Funding: • State subsidy • EU Structural Funds • Donations Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  5. BEST PRACTICES Some examples: • 6 organisations • 9 projects Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  6. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION PROFILE: • „Váltósáv” - Private foundation NGO • assistance of prisoners, released offenders and those with a criminal record in their reintegration in the society and the labour market • primarily deal with young people (16-35) • continuous (after)care and the operation of a civil helping system Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  7. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION STAFF: • 6 workers • Qualification: secondary school teacher, social worker, social teacher, expert in social politics, public educator, qualified narcology assistant. HISTORY: • Started as a private school – 2 students were sentenced to prison – developed a training/care programme Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  8. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES 1.: • Assisting in the preparation for the secondary school leaving exam, improving the chances of re-integration • Organizing, operating and maintaining a special, personality-based learning -teaching programme for first-offenders and young people with a criminal lifestyle • Recognizing, realizing and reinforcing individual abilities Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  9. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES 2.: • Psycho-social treatment of personal problems; mental-hygienic care • Lifestyle assistance • Organizing, operating and maintaining special helping-problem solving groups supporting the re-integration in the society • Crime prevention; organizing and managing informative discussions on prevention Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  10. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES 3.: • Operating a civil support system • Providing continuous after-care • Preventing the process of prison socialization • Involving ex-offenders in caring work - as far as possible - and supporting their training in helping work • Family care Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  11. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES 4.: • Organizing professional meetings, coordinating methodology exchange • Methodological and research work concerning deviance and its possible treatments, with special respect to criminal lifestyle • Organizing spare time and community activities Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  12. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION SELECTED PROJECTS: • „Youth work” in the penal institutions • „I will learn to learn” and „Create with me!”- Preparation for release for young people in penal institutions • „Changing Programme” - employment of ex-criminal youth and support reintegration in the labour market Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  13. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 1. „YOUTH WORK” project - Summary • Aim: to create and increase the possibilities and chances of reintegration to the society and the labour market of ex-prisoners and/or deviant/criminal young people • Method: operating a continuous (after)care model and a civil helping system • Based on the synergy of supportive and educative elements, such as psychosocial care and the aimed delivery of the target group to the training institutions and the labour market Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  14. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 1. „YOUTH WORK” project – Indicators • target group: young prisoners aged 15-29 • no. of clients: 60, out of which 30 finished the training course • Financed by: TÁMOP-5.2.5-08/1-2008-0209 child and youth integration (co-financed by EU Structural Funds) • Budget: 19.270.680 HUF (250.000 LTL) Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  15. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 1. „YOUTH WORK” project - Method • Individual and group competence development: • teaching-training-care-resocialisation forming one system • differentiated education • Course: 15 people/group x 4 hrs. x 20 occasions • Learning programme (concrete plans: making a living, education, housing, job seeking) • Supportive care– in the penal institution and after release Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  16. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 1. „YOUTH WORK” project - Content • Competence groups; course elements: • determining existing skills, • development of mental skills („thinking”), • development of cogninitve skills, • identifying and recognising personal core values, • strengthening emotional factors that enhance the learning process, • „how to learn” methodology • how the labour market works Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  17. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 2. „I will learn to learn” and „Create with me!” projects - Summary • Aim: the preparation for release of young people (student-age) in penal institutions • Why? 2 facts: • it is very hard to organise normal school education for student-age prisoners in the penal institution -> the prisoners don’t know how to learn, they don’t understand the books… • The only things that girls are interested in is crafts and creative work (based on research) Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  18. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 2. „I will learn to learn!” and „Create with me!” projects - Indicators • Target group: „learn” – boys, „create” – girls • no. of clients: 15 • Duration: 4 months • Financed by: KAB-PR-08-A - complex prevention programmes of organisations dealing with drug abuse prevention and drug users (co-financed by EU Structural Funds) • Budget: 800.000 HUF (10.400 LTL) Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  19. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 2. „I will learn to learn!” and „Create with me!” projects - Method • „classes”: 2 hrs./class × 1 class/week × 13 weeks • art/creative group classes for girls • Learning methodology group classes for boys Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  20. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 2. „I will learn to learn!” project - Content • 3 phases: theory, practice, application • Competences: • Improvement of thinking, problem solving, deductive and inductive reasoning, analytical and critical thinking etc. • Information gathering, communication • identifying personal core values, strengthening emotional factors that enhance the learning process Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  21. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 2. „Create with me!” project - Content • Girls work together in a creative group (like in former village communities) • Possibility to make contact, to share problems, ideas, to talk • Creative work = psychosocial effect • Pastime = pleasure Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  22. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 3. „CHANGING PROGRAME” project - Summary • Aim: to create and increase the possibilities and chances of reintegration to the society and the labour market of ex-prisoners and/or deviant/criminal young people • Method: operating a continuous (after)care model with several elements, and a civil helping system • Based on the synergy of supportive and educative elements, such as psychosocial care and the aimed delivery of the target group to the training institutions and the labour market Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  23. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 3. „CHANGING PROGRAME” project – indicators • Target group: ex-prisoners and/or deviant/criminal young people • no. of clients: • Involved in consultation: 210 • Entered vocational training: 28 • Got employed: 12 • Financed by: National Development Plan Humane Resource Operative Programme HEFOP 2.3.2. (co-financed by EU Structural Funds) • Budget: 39.225.000 HUF (500.000 LTL) • Duration: 18 months Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  24. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 3. „CHANGING PROGRAME” project – elements • During and after prison: supportive care, consultations, competence programmes, job seeking training, language courses, „Family Group” • During prison: „Focusing on Freedom” – special training preparing for life after release • After release: „Job Coaching” Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  25. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 3. „JOB COACHING” ELEMENT – Method • employinga „coach” who follows the career development of the ex-prisoners • They talk the topic over – the coach gives an analysis and evaluation • Supportive care • Mediation between employee and employer Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  26. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE PROFILE & ACTIVITIES: • County labour centre (state administration) • used to be 19 county, now 7 regional, work under Hungarian Public Employment Service • Dealing with all issues of employment: • Labour market analyses, migration, training guidance, vocational orientation, statistics etc. Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  27. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE SELECTED PROJECT: „Give your future a chance!” a project supporting prisoners and ex-prisoners under Probation Service in social reintegration Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  28. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE Project - Summary • 10 prisoners and 10 convicts under probation will undertake a training to acquire a nationally accepted vocation (ECDL*), plus other courses, self-knowledge groups * European Computer Driving Licence Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  29. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE Project - Indicators • target group: prisoners and ex-prisoners under probation, especially of roma ethnicity • no. of clients: 20 • budget: 4.981.200 HUF (63.000 LTL) • financing body: National Crime Prevention Board (NCPB), Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  30. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE Project - Method • Matching the goals of the National Crime Prevention Strategy: to prevent repeated crime • Groups attend resocialisation and personality development courses conducted by psychologists • Vocational training (ECDL) Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  31. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE Project - Content • Determining suitability (based on California Personality Inventory Test) – interviews • Psychologists make a list of applicants and start work • Large „classes” don’t work, they are too big - small groups of 4-5 are OK: gradual development of mutual trust, honest atmosphere Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  32. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE Project - Content • Training on „How the labour market works” by experts – various forms of training • ECDL course – in the prison • Job seeking advice: behaviuor development based on the methods of Nathan Azrin (USA) • How to use the phone, write a CV, take a job interview Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  33. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT PROFILE & ACTIVITIES : • adult training centre and official examination centre of the region Central Hungary • founded in 1993 by the Ministry of Labour and the municipality of Kecskemét city Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  34. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Summary • Title: „Park gardener training in Állampuszta Penal Institution” • Vocational training and qualification (nationally accepted) • Aimed to assist the reintegration of former prisoners to the community • Taking place in the penal institution Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  35. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Indicators • target group: prisoners and under probation • no. of clients: 18 • Duration: 2005. 10. 03 - 2006. 04. 28. • budget: 3.402.000 HUF (43.000 LTL) • financing body: National Crime Prevention Board (NCPB), Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  36. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Method • The target group is mostly roma and/or coming from Eastern Hungary, where high rates of unemployment and crime prevail • A nationally recognised qualification increases their chances to have a job when released • Additional course: personality development, job seeking techniques Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  37. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Content • Selection of participants (health status) • Signing of contracts for the training • Personality development training (90 hours) • Park gardener training (500 hours) Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  38. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Personality development training • Group building • Self-knowledge • Personal SWOT analysis • Labour market training • Criteria of successful vocation and employment • Personal long term activity plan Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  39. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Park gardener training • Basics of gardening • Economy • Environment and safety at work • Technical skills • European studies • Practical work • Examination Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  40. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team PROFILE: Project team with different organisationsconsisting of: • Sopronkőhidai Penal Institution • FKFSZ – Employment Service of Budapest • Menedék - the Hungarian Association for Migrants • The Regional Training Centre ofBékéscsaba Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  41. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team SELECTED PROJECT: • „TOOLBOOK” - Handbook for employers who are willing to accept ex-prisoners • Handbook - project product downloadable from: http://equal.nfu.hu/download.php?docID=104 Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  42. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  43. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team Project - Indicators • target group: employers and future employers of workers with changed abilities and special needs, e.g. ex-prisoners • no. of clients: national level (the book is free) • budget: ? • financing body: EQUAL Hungary – EU Structural Funds + Hungarian Government Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  44. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team Project - Method The project product is a 100-page handbook for employers, containing definitions, tips, examples of best practice, training outlines, case studies, legal and practical advice for the establishment and development of anti-discriminative workplaces for special employees: women, members of large families, older employees, immigrants and asylum seekers, employees starting their career, ex-prisoners, employees with different ethnicity, religious or sexual orientation, handicap. Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  45. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team Project - Content The chapter dealing with ex-prisoners lists some „myths and stereotypes” concerning the employment of ex-prisoners and the facts related to these issues, e.g. how the employer can receive state subsidies when employing ex-prisoners. Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  46. 5. RETEXTIL FOUNDATION PROFILE & ACTIVITIES: • Private foundation NGO • Retextil Foundation’s aim is to promote an original know-how of recycling domestic and industrial second-hand textiles. • Using a traditional, manual textile technique, the common human ability of creativeness can be developed and at same time textile waste be reduced. • To create Retextil products – bags, puffs, swings – there is no need for any other sources except human energy and it also enhances the cooperation of groups and individuals. Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  47. 5. RETEXTIL FOUNDATION Retextil Project - Summary • Retextil is a method to manufacture domestic items (bags, clothes, rags, lampshades, sculptures, swings etc.) from textile waste • 100% manual work – community rehabilitation • 100% recycled – environmentally friendly • Unique ecodesign – artistic value Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  48. 5. RETEXTIL FOUNDATION Retextil Project - Indicators • Workshop: in Pécs • No. of workers: 24 (at present) • Handicapped, underprivileged, special needs workers „Retextil is a language where we can learn about the organic order in the world around us.” Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  49. 5. RETEXTIL FOUNDATION Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

  50. 5. RETEXTIL FOUNDATION Development and Implementation of the Practical Model of Gradual Social Integration

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