About Safe Ground

We have a strong track record of engaging and retaining people who have not succeeded with traditional education and for whom a group work setting can be uncomfortable. A Safe Ground programme often represents the first step of sustained engagement in purposeful activity. So, whilst staying safe, we aim to avoid the exclusion of participants.

 

Ultimately, we believe;

 

  • People want to do their best
  • Attitudes and beliefs can change
  • Relationships are central to personal development
  • High-quality group learning is central to skills development
  • People can learn to understand themselves and others better
  • We all share responsibilities for the safety and well-being of the communities we live in
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Our Approach

Our group processes involve overlapping creative methods, therapeutic techniques, cognitive and affective learning, and practical work. Our essential function is to create spaces in which transformational change can occur.

 

We provide structured and accessible resources and a flexible approach that enables and responds to the needs and priorities of participants. We specialise in working with complexity, adopting an anti-oppressive practice that considers participants equally, regardless of physical ability, language, learning style, group work experience, or confidence level. Our experienced facilitators encourage and enable participation, generating interest, engagement and reward for all.

 

We continuously develop and refine programmes to ensure participants’ needs are central to our work. 

Our Impact

Our programmes create a positive impact; analysis of Fathers Inside shows a 40% reduction in re-offending between programme participants and their counterparts who did not participate (Justice Data Lab, 2016).

 

Our most recent evaluation of Fathers Inside (Blagden 2019) highlighted a statistically significant reduction in parental stress pre/post programme and a significant increase in less-restrictive attitudes towards parenting because of the programme.

 

76.5% of participants engaged in further ETE (education, training and employment) one month after completing FathersInside, compared to 53.6% prior to the programme.

 

Impact Reports

 

Man Up Prison Settings Interim Report click here to upload

Justice Data Lab Fathers Inside click here to upload

Man Up Youth Offending Teams Settings Final Report click here to upload

Being Well Being Equal Report click here to upload

 

How our programmes work

  • Developing and supporting personal development through arts-based methodologies and methods (ABM)
  • Using therapeutic group-work techniques to explore and develop ideas around identity and values and help attitudinal shifts and mental health
  • Developing and supporting family relationships to support desistance, resettlement, intergenerational bonding and kinship networks
  • Developing education, training and employment progression routes and engaging learners who traditionally struggle in a classroom setting
  • Improving staff-user relationships towards a Whole Institution Approach (WIA)
  • Training and supporting staff to deliver high-quality services and self-care in custodial and community settings

Our Delivery Methods

  • DIRECT

    Delivered by experienced facilitators trained and contracted by Safe Ground.

  • CO-DELIVERY

    By a Safe Ground trained facilitator and a member of your staff member trained by us with all associated costs covered.

  • QUALITY ASSURANCE

    Safe Ground will train (2) members of your staff with quality assurance support and all associated costs covered.

  • MAN UP LICENCE

    3-Day Safe Ground programme facilitation training to equip the establishment staff to deliver unlimited programmes during the licence period.

Our Programmes

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