“Strengthening the rehabilitation of prisoners through treatment””

Project facts

Project promoter:
The Prison Service of the Czech Republic(CZ)
Project Number:
CZ-JUSTICE-0002
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€1,590,000
Donor Project Partners:
Bastoy Prison(NO)
Ila Prison(NO)
Norwegian Correctional Service – Region South(NO)
The University College of the Norwegian Correctional Service (KRUS)(NO)
Other Project Partners
The Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech Republic(CZ)
Programme:

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Description

The project will enhance convicts’ motivation to participate in intervention programmes, which, as a final goal, can decrease the risk of their relapse, through the implementation of the Norwegian “Motivation Programme" to improve treatment programmes for vulnerable groups with emphasis on the integration of medical and psycho-social care, implementation of standardization of the procedures of professional care for convicted drug users and through implementation of programme focused on working with imprisoned fathers as well as on working with families and imprisoned parents (e.g. “Pappa Programme“).

 The project will include the following main activities:

  • Translation of the manual for the application of the “Motivation programme” from Norwegian into Czech and its adaptation for Czech environment.
  • Training of teams of professional staff from four Czech prisons in using the “Motivation programme” and “job shadowing” in a Norwegian prison or prisons where this programme is implemented.
  • Pilotage of the “Motivation programme” in four Czech prisons
  • Creating a standard procedure of substitution treatment and detoxification and its pilot verification in one prison including necessary equipment
  • Training staff members dealing with drug addict within new developed medical programmes
  • Translation of the manual for the application of the programme from Norwegian into Czech and its adaptation for Czech environment
  • Training of Prison Service staff – training of Czech lecturers of Pappa Programme in Norway
  • Pilotage of Fathers programme in four prisons
  • Creating an educational publication for parents and children (about the life of a parent in prison in collaboration with suppliers and partners, processing of publications, illustrations and graphics, followed by printing)

Equipment and adjustment of appropriate spaces for the Fathers programme implementation and creation of suitable spaces inside visiting rooms suited for visits of family members in prisons.

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