Building new staff skills to address re-offending
“Every single time you help somebody stand up,you are helping humanity rise” – this quote describes best the work of prison and probation resocialisation professionals and its significance. On 10 June, a group of penitentiary staff successfully completed a training course on the use of a new intervention tool for persons at high risk of re-offending organized at the Training Centre of the Prison Department.
The set of rules for conditionally released persons at high risk of re-offending will become a new penitentiary tool to gradually integrate offenders with need for special attitude into society. The tool covers not only intensive social work with the offenders, but also close cooperation between penitentiary establishments and the Lithuanian Probation Service while accompanying the offenders on the path to positive changes.
The training on the new intervention tool was organized within the framework of the Project Development of Quality Based Lithuanian Correctional Service System(PDP 3) implemented under the EEA and Norwegian Financial Mechanisms programme Justice and Home Affairs 2014-2021. Maren Riis and Stig Solheim, the experts from the Kingdom of Norway, delivered the training and shared their experience.
Close long-term cooperation with experts from the Norwegian correctional system helps to adopt the best practices of the Kingdom of Norway and implement more efficient behaviour modification methods for offenders.
Last updated: 24-04-2024
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