Training for Prisons
With support from HM Prison Service and the Offenders Learning and Skills Unit, Safe Ground training events have introduced our teaching methods to managers, teachers, prison officers and probation staff from over 60 prisons.
With experience of working in categories in A, B, C and YOI prisons we can design staff training to meet the particular needs of your establishment.
These events enable participants to review their traditional methods of working with prisoners and to explore the potential for collaboration with staff from other prisons.
Family Man and Fathers Inside training
Safe Ground provides Family Man (FM) and Fathers Inside (FI) training to people working with offenders at any level.
Training participants can expect to do the following:
- consider the planning required to programme and realise FM or FI successfully in their establishment
- experience and practice FM or FI course activities
- practice rapport building by using basic questioning techniques, encouraging participation and working with resistance
- discuss different methods for resolving conflict and problemsolving
- consider how to manage course assessment
- consider how to establish robust progression routes for course graduates
- review different approaches to supporting the application of skills by students
- identify the support required for people delivering and managing FM or FI
- write a proposal outlining how FM or FI should be recorded, monitored and evaluated in their establishment.
We offer two different approaches to FM/FI training – Network and Establishment.
Network Training is delivered over three consecutive days to participants drawn from a range of different establishment promoting collaboration between staff from a number of prisons.
Establishment Training involves developing a bespoke training experience to meet the needs of an individual prison and its staff. Sessions can be delivered on site for up to 20 participants over a 1, 2 or 3 day format.
For more information about training, please contact us: info@safeground.org.uk