Best practice in working with people with mental health problems on probation: what the evidence tells us
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
by Abi Lunn
1M ago
Part of the “A matter of fact: what the evidence tells us” series Monday 4 March 2024, Online, Free ..read more
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Clinks Thinks
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
by Abi Lunn
1M ago
Clinks Thinks sets out Clinks’ key principles, policy ambitions and recommendations, developed in consultation with voluntary sector organisations ..read more
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Developing creative approaches in youth justice: A guide for youth justice professionals
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
by Abi Lunn
6M ago
Sandwell Youth Offending Service (YOS) and the Institute for Community Research and Development developed this good practice guide with the aim of helping others design and implement creative arts approaches in youth justice, and to understand the impact of what they do. This guide is the resource that the authors wish they had when they set out on their journey – it should be of use to staff right across youth justice services and prove to be a valuable resource. Read the guide   This guide has been published by Sandwell Children’s Trust and the Institute for Community Research and De ..read more
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Creating Roots for well-being through art
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
by Abi Lunn
7M ago
This blog is guest written by Mark Jones. Mark is Director at Higher Plain and Visiting Professor of Criminology at University South Wales Contributing Authors with links to individual blogs on creative roots Experiences below within Artist experiences section of this blog. Introduction The Creative Roots Project is an arts project that has been funded by the Arts Council for Wales and G4S and was delivered in Parc Prison from September 2022 to May 2023. Creative Roots was delivered through a multi-skilled arts team under the performance, live art and dance organisation  Mr & M ..read more
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Gar’s Blog for Creative Roots
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
by Abi Lunn
7M ago
This blog is guest written by Gareth Clark. Gareth Clark is a theatre maker whose work embraces the struggles of humanity and questions the way we live and are governed. I can remember clearly the beginning, the first sessions in September last year. We had spent some time honing a series of exercises that we had trialled the year before with a wide range of people. This time they were shaped specifically for the people living and working in confinement at Parc prison. Those first few days were tense. We wanted to get it right. Our experience of delivering a pilot project the year before ..read more
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Dee’s blog for Creative Roots
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
by Abi Lunn
7M ago
This blog is guest written by Dee Rogers. Dee Rogers is a co-director of Das Clarks and a professional hybrid. Their creative work focuses on difference and language. We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T S Eliot, Four Quartets, 1943 As a young person in the mid 90s I trained to be a social worker. I always enjoyed working with the incarcerated and the excluded: adults with learning difficulties, people in prison, patients in a maximum security psychiatric hospital. I found it easy to emp ..read more
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Bill’s blog for Creative Roots project
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
by Abi Lunn
7M ago
This blog is guest written by Bill Chambers. Bill Chambers is a freelance artist and printmaker working in community arts and education. I love printmaking and I’ve been doing it for so long now that I ought to be an expert. I fell for it at college in the early 90’s and on my first visit to the print room I was in awe. It was so different, so tranquil with it’s quiet industry and age old machinery, it’s areas and it’s rules. Am I an expert? The truth is I just love printing. It’s my vocation. As I have got older, I have come to realise that I am lucky to have a vocation at all and although th ..read more
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Jo’s Blog for Creative Roots
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
by Abi Lunn
7M ago
This blog is guest written by Jo Haycock. Jo Haycock is a documentary and portrait photographer who explores the relationships that people have between themselves, others and the spaces they connect in. Storytelling photography for communities, families and social documentaries. “Have a good weekend miss” he said as we left on that second Friday afternoon of our photography workshop, “you too” I replied. It then hit me, that these common exchanges of pleasantries I have with folk I meet most Fridays in my day-to-day world, are now hanging with new meaning and a new perspective. Because his wee ..read more
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Marega’s Creative Roots Experience
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
by Abi Lunn
7M ago
This blog is guest written by Marega Palser. Marega Palser is a multi-dimensional shape shifting performance-based artist. Background My first experience of prison was back in the early 90’s. My boyfriend at the time was doing two years so I got to visit various ‘walled establishments’, And, got to see parts of Britain I’d never been to … think of it as an alternative road trip.  In Jimmy Boyle’s ‘Sence of Freedom’, on the way to Barlinnie Prison after being sentenced for Life, he makes this observation of having never seen the countryside, which was so close to his native Glasgow.&n ..read more
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Marion Cheung – Freedom and Constraint
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
by Abi Lunn
7M ago
This blog is guest written by Marion Cheung. Marion Cheung is a multidisciplinary artist based in South Wales, with over 10 years of experience in Participatory Arts Practice specialising within Arts in Health. Here Marion reflects on her involvement in Creating Roots for well-being through art. Initial thoughts The idea of working in a prison intrigued me as I had never worked or been in a prison before. At first I was apprehensive, it was reassuring to know that I would be working with low-risk offenders and not be on my own. I decided to take part because I wanted to be involved in a meanin ..read more
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