Gherla Penitentiary is a high-securitypenitentiary that custody women, men and young people who execute theirpunishment in maximum security regime, closed regime and open regime. One ofthe main purposes of detention is social reintegration, education, andre-education of inmates so that after their release they can reintegrate intothe communities they come from, respect the generally accepted social norms andlead a decent life. For this purpose, the Gherla Penitentiary has a SocialReintegration Sector, carrying out activities such as:
CPIP - Centrul pentru Promovarea Învățării Permanente (EN: Center for Promoting Lifelong Learning) is an NGO based in Timisoara / Romania, built around the idea of lifelong learning as a community development instrument. We have worked since 2006 with different target groups that have in common the need and desire of learning. Dedicated to fostering lifelong learning, CPIP operates in various developmental areas, including Corrections Advancement, urban security, and the rule of law. Through projects co-funded by the European Union, CPIP targets professionals working in or with the prisons, as well as people with lived experiences, preparing their way back into local communities through the first steps in the adaptation process. Within the European initiatives implemented, CPIP has established partnerships with European organisations specialising in prison environments, and formal and non-formal education systems, collaborating closely with national-level prison institutions to facilitate the seamless implementation of projects activities.
Silta is a non-profit, strongly value-based non-religious association established in Tampere Finland in the year 2000. The primary task of Silta is to increase societal equality, participation and welfare by coaching and helping hard-to-employ people in overcoming their life's obstacles and to improve their ability to work and to function, and to find their place insociety.
We offer various services to improve the vocational and studying abilities of its clients which mainly consist of vulnerable groups of people with partial work ability including offenders, ex-offenders, mental health and substance abuse rehabilitators.
Silta has a multiprofessional interdisciplinary personnel of approx. 90 employees consisting of personal coaches, work coaches, instructors, teachers and social scientists. The rehabilitative staff work daily directly with offenders, ex-offenders and probationaries who are doing community service as well as with people with mental health issues and substance abuse backgrounds.
We have developed an innovative workshop working model which is based on a hands-on approach where people gain experience, perception and know-how in working in different lines of work. The workshops are work communities where trainees work at the workshops with work coaches, personal coaches and teachers. Silta also arranges programs and groupactivities for the inmates in several prisons and reaches over 150 inmates a year inside the prisons.
Silta works every year with more than 1 000 vulnerable people, of which nearly 50 % are young adults and of which nearly 70 % suffer from some mental issues and over 30 % are offenders or ex-offenders.
We work in close cooperation with the official Finnish Criminal Sanctions Agency (RISE), The Finnish Agency of Community Services, municipalities, educational institutions and many organisations working with similar target groups both nationally and internationally.
Silta has successfully participated in several projects concerning offender rehabilitation both as coordinator and partner nationally as well as on the European level.
Freedom Gate Greece is a non-profit non-governmental (NGO) organisation which was founded in 2012 in Athens Greece. The purpose of the organisation according to its statutes is to combat any kind of social exclusion of vulnerable social groups, as well as the psycho-social support thereof. Freedom Gate Greece has a focus on work within the criminal justice system and particularly on offender rehabilitation and their reintegration into the labour market and the society in general as well as on support of offenders’ familial environments.
Our interventions have a very high demand in Greece as we are one of the few bodies which implement rehabilitative programs in Greek prisons.
Our mission, through our services, is strive to cover the needs of our target group and of those who work with or for them by providing:
Through our service we therefore strive to:
Turkish Association of Social Workers (TASW) is the oldest and most experienced non-governmental organisation in its field as a professional organisation of social workers since 1987. It is organised at the national level with its headquarters and 23 branches and approximately 2,400 members. In addition to protecting the professional rights of social workers, activities are carried out in cooperation with relevant institutions to better carry out professional work. In terms of rights and problems of social workers and target groups that are served as members, opinions are expressed on relevant issues and cooperation is made with other institutions and NGOs. TASW has been a member of the International Federation of Social Workers since 2003.
The mandate of TASW is summarised as follows in the By-Law:
It is estimated that there are 7000 social workers in Turkey. Majority of social workers have been working in ministries and affiliated public institutions such as the Ministry of Family and Social Services, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Youth and Sport, Ministry of Interior, municipalities. Vulnerable and disadvantaged groups (such as, prisoners, people with disabilities, refugees etc.) constitute the main target group of social workers.
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