Project name: Passport CashBack
Age range: 16-25 years
Access to Industry’s Passport CashBack project is an employability project, focussed on building skills, confidence, and resilience to enable young people to see a future where they are working in a job they are happy with.
The project is dual aspect. The project will work with young people (16-25) in their communities to undertake activity as an alternative to custody. Through 1:1 support young people build trusting relationships with their caseworker and in time introduced to training, education, and employment opportunities. The second aspect supports young people (18-25) during custodial sentences within HMP YOI Polmont. During their time in custody, the project will work 1:1 and in small groups, building confidence and resilience, alongside motivating them to take part in skills-based training activities. Participants build skills and self-confidence to prepare them for liberation. On liberation they will continue with project support or be signposted to services within their local area.
Access to Industry caseworkers are professionals delivering a service in a trauma-informed way in safe spaces, building trust and growing personal resilience. They create action plans to develop skills, confidence, and progress young people into training, education, and employment.
Passport CashBack will move young people away from crime, which will positively impact families and wider communities. It will reduce the need for further Justice interventions and the need for ongoing support from other agencies/networks.
Local authority areas:
Angus; Dundee City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Perth & Kinross; Renfrewshire
