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Finding creative ways to support foreign nationals during lockdown at HMP Maidstone

Stress balls and recovery games: members of the team at HMP Maidstone explain how they’ve been supporting foreign national prison clients through the lockdown.

• Drug & alcohol support
• Mental health support

Reach Out: how Forward’s online chat service grew from an emergency pandemic response into a valuable safety net

In May 2020, Forward launched its first ever live-chat service: Reach Out. Amy Lucas, Reach Out Service Coordinator, describes how the service has grown in the past year.

• Drug & alcohol support
• Mental health support

Brent Bright Futures successfully supports ex-offenders towards employment

The Brent Bright Futures employment programmes has been described as a ‘top-ranking’ service by an independent evaluator commissioned by Brent Council.

• Employment support

The Forward Trust and The Institute of Employability Professionals launch important new apprenticeship for employability practitioners

Do you want to upskill your employability workforce and get the best out of your Apprenticeship Levy? The New Employability Practitioner Apprenticeship Standard (Level 4) might be just what your organisation needs.

• Employment support

Join us for National Apprenticeship Week 2021 and help build the future

Let’s help more people into better paid, more stable and exciting employment through apprenticeships.

• Employment support

Mike Trace gives the low-down on our new Forward Trust Recovery Fund

Our CEO Mike Trace tells us about our new Forward Trust Recovery Fund, launching in April, that will help us provide more of the vital initiatives that contribute to successful, life-changing recovery than we could accomplish through Government contracts alone.

• Recovery support

Supporting isolated service users in East Kent to get tested for Covid-19

Thanet Team Leader Sam Blake describes the different ways our East Kent Community Service has been supporting vulnerable and isolated clients during the Covid-19 pandemic, including to get tested.

The Worth Women’s Project: a trauma-informed approach to violence reduction

Launched in November 2019, Forward’s Worth Women’s Project is a gender-specific violence reduction project delivered in Thanet, Margate. Here Ann Humphreys, our Criminal Justice Team Leader in East Kent who led on the project, tells us what inspired the idea and how things have unfolded.

Coping with a Covid outbreak at The Bridges

Our team at our residential rehab, The Bridges, were forced into crisis mode last month when there was a Covid outbreak among clients. Here Jess Bailey, The Bridges Treatment Manager, tells us how they got through it.

Lifting spirits with creative activities at HMP Elmley

Drug and Alcohol Practitioner Bronya Cannon tells us how she’s been lifting spirits with her homemade craft kits and distraction packs at HMP Elmley.