⚖️ Justice Support & Crisis Prevention
Early Help, Creative Rehabilitation & Mentoring for At-Risk and Justice-Involved Young People
Integrating education, mental health, and creative mentoring to reduce reoffending and rebuild lives.
Because behaviour is communication — and every young person deserves a chance to rebuild.
The Justice Support & Crisis Prevention service provides early intervention, creative rehabilitation, and trauma-informed mentoring for young people who are at risk of entering — or already involved in — the justice system.
Our work complements national priorities from the Youth Justice Board (YJB) and Early Intervention Foundation (EIF), promoting diversion from custody, re-engagement with learning, and improved long-term outcomes for neurodivergent young people.
This programme connects seamlessly with other Moving Mindspace services, creating an individualised pathway from crisis prevention to personal growth.
💬 Who It’s For
- Young people aged 10–25 at risk of offending, exclusion, or exploitation
- Those already involved in the youth justice system or on probation orders
- Individuals with neurodivergent profiles (e.g. ADHD, autism, PDA, trauma) whose needs were misunderstood as behaviour
- Young people disengaged from education or struggling with substance awareness, mental health, or peer pressure
- Families, schools, or professionals seeking early, preventative, and creative support
Families play a key role in rehabilitation. We offer parent and carer mentoring alongside youth sessions, ensuring home and community environments are supported through change.
We help young people see beyond their circumstances — to find belonging, purpose, and a way forward.
🧩 What We Offer
Our programmes combine education, mentoring, and creative rehabilitation, tailored to each young person’s situation, needs, and learning style.
Support includes:
- Neurodivergent Offender Support: understanding profiles, triggers, and safe engagement strategies
- Sentencing & Choices Education: understanding consequences, responsibility, and positive decision-making
- Creative Rehabilitation Projects: art, music, and media-based programmes for expression, restoration, and purpose
- Mentoring for Change: consistent, trauma-informed mentors building trust and hope
- Substance Awareness & Emotional Regulation: practical, age-appropriate education for safer coping strategies
- Family & Community Reintegration Support: helping young people repair relationships and re-engage with opportunity
Each support plan is built collaboratively with the young person — focusing on responsibility, growth, and genuine understanding.
🌿 How It Works
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- Referrals accepted from schools, Youth Offending Teams (YOTs), local authorities, police diversion schemes, or families
- Comprehensive assessment and goal-setting with the young person and family
- Weekly 1:1 or small-group sessions delivered online, in-community, or within education settings
- Integration with other Moving Mindspace pathways for wraparound support, such as:
Gaming Minds – building trust and self-regulation through play
Passion Pathways – discovering purpose and strengths
Young Dream Builders – developing enterprise and future direction
Unmask Me – trauma-informed self-expression
The Wellbeing Pathway – emotional regulation and mental health support
Alongside our mentoring, we also deliver targeted workshops and bespoke programmes for schools, YOTs, and community organisations.
Workshops can focus on:- Decision-making and restorative communication
- Understanding neurodiversity in the justice system
- Substance awareness and coping skills
- Creative re-engagement through art, music, or enterprise
We tailor each package to local need, ensuring relevance, accessibility, and measurable impact.
All delivery is DBS-checked, risk-assessed, and safeguarding-led, with sessions co-designed alongside existing professionals to ensure joined-up, safe support.
- Referrals accepted from schools, Youth Offending Teams (YOTs), local authorities, police diversion schemes, or families
🌱 Our Core Principles
- Understanding before judgment – every behaviour has a reason.
- Relationship before reform – connection enables change.
- Creativity before compliance – growth begins with self-expression.
- Collaboration before correction – families, mentors, and systems working together.
💖 Our Approach
We use a trauma-informed, neurodiversity-aware model rooted in understanding why behaviour happens, not just how to stop it.
Every mentor is trained in:
- Trauma and attachment theory
- Neurodiversity and youth justice
- Restorative and creative practice
- Substance misuse and crisis prevention
Our goal isn’t to “fix” behaviour — it’s to help young people regulate, reflect, and reimagine their future.
🧠 Why It Matters
Up to 40% of young offenders are estimated to be neurodivergent (HM Inspectorate of Probation, 2021), yet most never received appropriate assessment or support.
Many experienced school exclusion, trauma, or missed education long before entering the system.
The Justice Support & Crisis Prevention programme addresses these gaps early — helping young people feel seen, safe, and capable of change.
Because when we understand behaviour through the lens of need, prevention becomes possible.
🌈 Outcomes
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Young people completing this programme will:
- Build emotional regulation and coping skills
- Improve awareness of consequences and safer choices
- Develop trust and self-esteem through mentoring and creative expression
- Reduce risk of reoffending, exclusion, or crisis escalation
- Strengthen family and community connections
- Re-engage with education, training, or employment opportunities
Our approach reduces pressure on schools, police, and local authorities by addressing unmet needs early.
We focus on prevention, not punishment — creating a ripple effect of safety, stability, and restored hope. - Build emotional regulation and coping skills
✉️ Get in Touch
If you’re working with or caring for a young person at risk of offending, crisis, or exclusion, our Justice Support & Crisis Prevention programme can help.
We offer calm, creative, and consistent support that focuses on understanding, not judgment.
Because early help changes everything — and every young person deserves a chance to be understood, not written off.