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Shafa – an invaluable resource available to the probation service
Shafa provides a personal touch and a common language to help South Asian offenders to break the offending cycle. With a high rate of compliance and completion, Shafa is an invaluable resource available to the probation service. Touchstone’s Shafa project works with people of South Asian origin, who have been
Vacancy: Touchstone Well-bean Crisis Café Service Manager – Kirklees
SALARY: NJC scale points 26-28, Starting £29,636 pa / pro rata HOURS: 18.5 Hours The Well-bean Hope in a Crisis Café is open Mon-Sun in the evening between the hours of 5.30pm – 1am. The Crisis Café offers a non clinical, listening safe space with the aim of diverting people,
Employment success – a story of a second chance through ETE support
Second chances don’t come along very often, especially if you are stigmatised by an offending history. Sometimes you need to believe in yourself before you can expect an employer to believe in you. Touchstone’s West Yorkshire Finding Independence (WYFI) project had been working with people who experience multiple and complex
Join #PartnersinPride to celebrate #LeedsVirtualPride 2020
Back in May, Leeds Pride announced with a heavy heart that its 15th birthday celebrations would be put on hold until 2021. The decision prioritised the health, safety and wellbeing of communities, volunteers and participants, and we can’t wait for May next year to roll around so we can hopefully
What the numbers tell us about our service users at Touchstone
In 2019/20 a total of 9657 service users were supported by Touchstone services with a total of 8374 services users referred into services. On any given day Touchstone has about 4,000 (3963 on 31st March 2020) active/live service users. Gender: Slightly more men were supported than women during
Leeds Coproduction Conference 2020 pre-recorded webinars
Click on the links below to see the pre-recorded presentations. WEST YORKSHIRE FINDING INDEPENDENCE (WY-FI) – ROAD 2 RECOVERY EXHIBITION A co-produced arts exhibition about experiences of homelessness, addiction, reoffending and mental health. Presented by: West Yorkshire Finding Independence https://www.flickr.com/photos/187738946@N07/albums COPRODUCTION IN COMPLEX REHABILITATION A short presentation on the