Description
According to statistics there are 533 prisoners under 26 year old in Estonia. 67 pupils study in board schools (reformatory). In the next three years 280 young people will be released. This project helps these young people to start crime-free lives. Activities start inside the prison and continue after the release. The objective of the project is to minimise repetitive crime done by young people and help them to overcome obstacles of growing into law-abiding citizen. This project helps to: Support the social integration and development of social skills of juveniles to find job and start working. Raise the own responsibility and personal initiative of juveniles when it comes to job seeking and coping with everyday problems. Increase the competitiveness of juveniles. Prepare the juveniles to enter the labour market and proceed to continuing education and/or retraining. Support the rehabilitation of juveniles. Support re-entering of juveniles and raise the readiness to start working. Youngsters under 26 years are expected to benefit most, but also parents, their friends and society as a whole.
Summary of project results
The necessity was to support young offenders on social integration and develop their social skills to find job or help them to go back to school; to raise responsibility finding a job, to support rehabilitation of youngsters relased from prison or special schools and to help them to avoid doing another crime act. To reach these goals following activities were carried out: 57 youngsters were helped by support person; 25 youngsters received different kind of counselling services, for example how to write a CV, how to apply for a job etc, how to get rid of debts and how to avoid them, psychological help etc; 25 young offenders found a job; 28 young offenders continued their studies; 36 are still in prison although they received all kinds of support services. There is hope they will use the knowledge and find also a job or continue studying. 29 youngsters took part of job finding trainings; 23 juveniles took part of social skills training; Trainings for specialists on restorative justice were held. Feedback from young offenders to the services was 4.2/5.
Summary of bilateral results