Community Chaplaincy Workshop 23rd March

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Community Chaplaincy Workshop 23rd March

• Maintaining the Vision in a time of challenge and
  change

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Personal Journey

• Many moons ago when I was a Vicar in Beverley a
  new person with a story. no link form the prison,
  no support from probation, child protection
  guidelines in their infancy, stress of making it
  up as you go along
• BUT the upside, a community of support, in it for
  the long term, opportunities to build informed
  trust, dealing with setbacks through restoration
  rather than punishment
• Full Sutton resettlement, resettlement,
  resettlement
• Specification vs Standard 51 Discharge, but can
  only do so much
• Welsh experience Prisoner Forum, Parc and
  resettlement wing but who will be tier 2 and tier
  3, but sadness with loss of Swansea Community
  Chaplaincy

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The Challenges and Opportunities of TR

• Risk how to position ourselves as Community
  Chaplaincy
• Unique selling points over to you for an
  elevator pitch, bear in mind what CRCs want

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Faith Communities and Faith Practices

• Community CHAPLAINCY one of our USPs its not
  just about mentoring..what do CRCs want?
• Motivation the Cardiff Research Let your lives
  speak George Fox
• The power of the volunteer
• The power of being believed in
• Believing in Change makes change possible
• We need people to believe in us to get us through
  the times we cant believe in ourselves
• Resilience and Desistance
• Learning from falling and picking ourselves up

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Desistance and Resilience

• An explanatory framework Trust, Resilience,
  Positive Psychology and Good Lives, Desistance
  speaking a language that supports what CRCs want
  PBR requires binary desistance and Faith
  Communities are in it for the long haul back to
  Beverley, still supporting many moons on.

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Key Elements of Desistance

• Internal Capital emotions, thinking, self
  efficacy, knowledge and skills
• Social Capital relationships, accommodation,
  employment, community
• Narrative Identity an shifting of identity from
  offender to person made good
• Redemption/Restoration making up for past wrong
  doing and community acceptance
• Rituals celebrating success
• Interventions Part of the Process not the
  Solution.

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Internal Capital

• Self esteem faith teachings
• Self efficacy responsibility and grace
• Shame healthy shame and repentance
• Regret as a springboard to change
• Hope faith assures change is possible
• Pro-social thinking the needs of others,
  compassion, central
• Knowledge skills
• Emotional management prayer/meditation

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External Capital

• Building relationships with loved ones and
  families (Love of a Good Woman). Family
  conferencing/Family days/Parenting Courses
• Building a support network, statutory and
  non-statutory. Emotional and practical, mentors
  and befrienders key role of faith communities
• Increasing employability stable life style, job
  skills, family support, voluntary work, education
  employability
• Access to accommodation managing money, finding
  somewhere to live, seeking support, caring for a
  home

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Narrative and Identity

• Changing the persons view of themselves as
  criminals, wasters, or lost causes. Showing
  hope and belief in the person.
• Identifying their story and how the next
  chapter can be different. Fitting their narrative
  into a wider narrative
• Identifying the difference in where they are now
  and where they want to be.
• Using other stories as inspiration.
• Changing the view of their community so they see
  them as something other than dangerous and
  anti-social.
• Bringing meaning to life life becomes
  expensive!

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Redemption and Restoration

• Make amends for past wrong doing. RJ
  mediation, victim awareness courses, letters of
  apology, unpaid work.
• Paying back time to community and victims.
• Becoming a constructive member of a community.
  Involvement in community activities, learning to
  contribute and appreciate the contribution of
  others
• Voluntary work (learn new skills helps to
  readjust identity)
• Conflict management skills
• Conversion

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Rituals

• The CJS has formal rituals for catching and
  convicting criminals from procedures in police
  stations to court proceedings.
• Need rituals to celebrate moving through the
  system and making good.
• Celebrations, certificates, letters, media
  articles, good byes.

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Current Approaches

• Mentoring
• Restorative Justice Initiative
• Person orientated engagement
• Holistic life as well as risk management
• Hope and optimism in the persons ability to
  change
• Role of Chaplaincy in delivery of faith classes
  and classes on e.g relationships, bereavment

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Key authors in Desistance

• Shadd Maruna
• Fergus McNeil
• Thomas LeBel
• Kent Kerly
• Tony Ward
• Bill Marshall
• Mike McGuire
• Ross Burnett
• Frank Porporino